Hi, Daniel Steele has always been a problem for us...dosn't match the Scoth-Irish Steele's in Rockbridge Co or Augusta Co Va. I have paid for my brother Larry Dan Steele to do the Ancestry Paternal DNA sample...and surprise!!!....he matches Chester Steele's (known descendant of Daniel
Steele) Paternal DNA ..his family from Ross Co Ohio....and closely matches Dennis Steele (by one generation)......The Immigrant of Dennis Steele is Frantz Studel of Heidelberg, Germany on Ship Plaisance from Rotterdam by way of Cowes, England 1700's.....with wife Charlotta Edelmeyer and including OUR =child Johann Melchior Studel ...........to Cumru, Berks Co, Pa ..where Melchior married Anna Sybilla Adam (daughter of Nicholas).....and had children Catherine Stiehl (married Valentine Kizer Sr there in Cumru Twp, Pa), and her brother Daniel Steele and wife Jane married and a child Nancy born in Pa, going to Rockbridge Co, Va 1797/8 and BOTH BUYING ACRES FROM THE SAME MAN= ..William Zimmerman ,ON THE SAME FORKS OF THE JAMES RIVER,IN THE SAME YEAR. Daniels sister Catherine Kizer Died 1807 there and left small children...widower Valentine Kizer married Nancy Berry in Rockingham Co Va (where he and Catherine had lived a short time before came to Rockbridge Co)...they came back to Rockbridge Co, Va and named their first child Daniel Kizer 1808....they moved on with all their family to Bedford Co, Tn....SEE SITE OF =Mark B Arslan (marslan@nc.rr.com) KIZER FAMILY= has exstensive research for the Kizer family ...AND see his report for Valentine Kizer Sr and Catharine Stiehl (daughter of Melchior Stiehl) (Steele) of Rockbridge Co, Va.(has record for Valentine Kizer's buying acres from William Zimmerman/Simmerman)..sister of Daniel Steele. I am descendant of James W Steele (son of Daniel ...as stated in the Lexington Presbyterian Church Records)...married to Betsy Anderson ..and their son William Alexander Steele born 1818 Lexington ,Rockbridge Co, Va (his enlistment paper for Civil War).........both house carpenters and relocated in Cleveland , Bradley Co, Tn (in census 1850 and 1860)..and are in the list of Merchants of Cleveland, Tn (making furniture)...and in the Cleveland Merchants Petition to open the Hiwassee River to use for Trade....William Alexander Steele married Mary T Lomar/Lamore Sullivan Co, Tn.. enlisted in the Civil War and moved family to Rhea Co Tn. Carolyn