Mrs. Adeline Steeples

STEEPLES, PHILLIPS, PREWITT

Posted By: Gloria Dodds (email)
Date: 10/19/2002 at 16:17:51

Information from 80 year anniversary edition.
1855-1935 The Keosauqua Republican
Page 107 Thursday August 15, 1935

OVER NINETY YEARS OF AGE

Mrs. A. Nichols Steeples
91 years old May 17, 1935

LIFE STORY OF MRS. ADELINE STEEPLES

Mrs. Steeples is the widow of the late Harrison
Steeples, who was a Civil War veteran. She celebrated her ninety-first birthday on May 17, 1935 at her home in Farmington, Iowa. At that time she gave the following story of her life:

I was born May 17, 1844, in Crawford county, Pennsylvania. I was the youngest of four children, all girls. My mother died soon after I came into this world and my father was left without a housekeeper. When I was five years old I with my father and sisters, moved in a covered wagon from Pennsylvania to Avon, Ill. We were there only a short time when my father returned with we children to Pennsylvania. Very soon, or in 1852, father passed away leaving we children Orphans.
I was sent to Chicago to live with an aunt. When I grew to young womanhood I went to Warsaw, Ill., where I met and married Harrison Steeples at the close of the Civil War, in 1865. He had been in the service for the entire four years.
He was by choice a farmer, but an accident that occurred a few years after our marriage caused a permanent injury to his back so that he was handicapped in this particular occupation.
We later moved to a farm near Granger, Mo., and lived for many years in that section of the country.
We moved to Mt. Sterling, Van Buren county in 1910. Then about five years later we came to Farmington where I have lived ever since.
I am the mother of five children. All in good health. My Oldest daughter, Mary Steeples Phillips was born November 18, 1866. Next was came
William, who was born April 5, 1870. Harry Steeples was born April 19, 1873, then came a daughter, Bertie Steeples Prewitt who was born in 1879 and who now lives in Granger, Mo. and then the baby, Wesley, was born in 1882. All of my children except Bertie live in Farmington.