REPRINT of an old POST. (REPLY TO THE LIST, NOT ME) IN the very southwest corner of the Old Dominion state of Virginia is a county named Tazewell. It was settled about 1799 mainly by small farmers who objected to the high taxes and domination of the large landowners of the eastern portion of the state.[and a lot of Germans from PA] These were willing to forego some of the advantages of the closely settled portion of the state for the freedom and independence they longed for themselves and their children. [and cheap land] They were truly pioneers possessed of the same spirit which built our nation. It is in this section that our Steele tribe had its beginning. Samuel Sylvester Steele (Son of Captain Robert Steele and Julia Ann Cecil Steele) Emily Jane Morton (Daughter of Robert Morton and Jane McCuire Morton) Married, August 10, 1870. There was a small settlement here called Steelesburg and a post office of the same name because my grandfather gave the land for it. There was also a church-Steeles Chapel, possibly named for the same reason. My grandfather Steele, as I remember, had a very comfortable home, a front porch and a long one running the side of the house which held saddles and bridles. A "parlor" [I would love to have someone write on the PARLOR of SW VA ]with an organ which my Aunt Rose, the youngest of the family, played. This organ was a mark much to my amazement. The sermons must have been too much for her. She seemed to have been the money-maker of the family, for she spun and wove both linen and woolen cloth and sold it. The woolens she dyed with something she gathered from the woods in beautiful reds and blues. We have some pieces yet in the family. She also made maple sugar and sold it. She was said to be able to drive a shrewd bargain. There is a story about her thrift which had come down in the family.