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Pioneer couple Alfred and Rachel Steele chapter in Alabama Texas life
Alfred Steele and Rachel Sullivan Steele rise from enslaved kin to a hardworking Texas family. They marry at Robison Alabama on November 7 1869 and build a homestead near Jimmies Creek in Comanche County. The pair raise twelve children while farming, sharing neighborly aid and self made goods in a rugged frontier life.
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Robison
Steeles
Newton
Besten
Waer
Alfred
Racheles Sullivan
Ier
Rachel
Sullivan
Iter
Martha
Jasper Creamer
Texas
Alvi Steele
Ala
Creamers
Comanche
Jimmie’s Creek
Sidney
Lawson Edward
Carrie Elizabeth
William Jasper
Marcus Newton
Ada Isabel
Mary Melinda
Johnny Walter
Sarah Clementine
Oliver Ernest
Jessie Janklin
Alabama
Tunate