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George Edmund Steele

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George Edmund Steele

Birth
Connecticut, USA
Death
25 Nov 1863 (aged 36)
Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 92
Memorial ID
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married Nancy McCRACKIN, she remarried Capt. Ben F. CRAIL

Fairfield Ledger, Faifield, IA
03 DEC 1863, Thu
Page 3, Column 1

"BROUGHT HOME AND BURIED: The remains of George STEEL [Steele], of Co. M, 4th Iowa Cav., were brought home on Thursday last. He died in the Hospital at Keokuk. On Friday his body was escorted to the grave yard by the Union Guards and buried with military honors. He leaves a wife and several children to mourn his loss. In their bereavement they have the condolence of the community."∼"Fairfield Ledger", Thurs., Dec. 3, 1863, Pg. 3, Col. 1

Co. M, 4th Iowa Cav. Reg.; Bugler
Age 34. Resident Fairfield; nativity Connecticut
Enlisted November 2, 1861, at Bugler
Mustered November 25, 1861

Died of disease November 25, 1863, Keokuk, Iowa.

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Date of death recorded in civil war registry of Iowa Volunteer deaths (1861-65), on war department headstone application and on a horizontal stone near his headstone
married Nancy McCRACKIN, she remarried Capt. Ben F. CRAIL

Fairfield Ledger, Faifield, IA
03 DEC 1863, Thu
Page 3, Column 1

"BROUGHT HOME AND BURIED: The remains of George STEEL [Steele], of Co. M, 4th Iowa Cav., were brought home on Thursday last. He died in the Hospital at Keokuk. On Friday his body was escorted to the grave yard by the Union Guards and buried with military honors. He leaves a wife and several children to mourn his loss. In their bereavement they have the condolence of the community."∼"Fairfield Ledger", Thurs., Dec. 3, 1863, Pg. 3, Col. 1

Co. M, 4th Iowa Cav. Reg.; Bugler
Age 34. Resident Fairfield; nativity Connecticut
Enlisted November 2, 1861, at Bugler
Mustered November 25, 1861

Died of disease November 25, 1863, Keokuk, Iowa.

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Date of death recorded in civil war registry of Iowa Volunteer deaths (1861-65), on war department headstone application and on a horizontal stone near his headstone

Inscription

BUGLER
Co. M
4 IA. CAV.

Gravesite Details

stone displaced to Lot 182; married Nancy McCRACKIN, she remarried Capt. Ben F. CRAIL - but Evergreen Cem.



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