I have two sisters, Elizabeth and Frances Jane Steel/e, born in Kentucky about 1813 and 1820. Both married Shake brothers, and the Shakes lived in Oldham, County. According to the story passed down, the Steel/e father died and his widow married a man named Withers, by whom she had two sons before she died. Withers then sold the farm/plantation, pocketed the money and moved on with his two sons, leaving the Steel/e girls to fend for themselves. They moved in with an "Aunt Coonrody" (could be Conrad etc) and her husband, three children, and two old maids. The Steel/e girls came down with typhoid, while the man and the three children contracted cholera and died. The shock killed the "aunt", leaving the two girls and the two old maids--and five corpses in the house at one time. The girls married in the 1830s.

If any of you know anything that might help in identifying the family to which these girls belonged I will greatly appreciate hearing from you.