Jane Isabella BROOKS^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}

1832 - 1891  (59 years)

• Name	Jane Isabella BROOKS
  Born	18 Feb 1832	Franklyn, Illinois
  Gender	Female
  _UID	8DBC505342AFD5119ECFF91D728E622DD556
  Buried	Jun 1891	Parachute, Creek County, Colorado (see notes)
  Died	3 Jun 1891	Parachute, Creek County Colorado
  Person ID	I64	Steeles_Genealogy
  Last Modified	15 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	William1 BROOKS,   b. Abt 1805, Of Ill ,   d. 1839, Williamson Co. Illinois  (Age 34 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth1 FOWLER,   b. Abt 1810, Of Franklin Ill ,   d. 1839, Williamson Co. Illinois  (Age 29 years)
  Family ID	F459	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Fielding STEELE,   b. 26 Mar 1830, Summerfield, St Clair, Ill ,   d. 2 Mar 1902, Neola, Pottawattamie, IA  (Age 71 years)
  Married	24 Mar 1852	Maquoketa, Jackson, IA
  Children	1. Samuel Brooks STEELE,   b. 14 Mar 1847, Peoria County, Illinois ,   d. 30 Jan 1930, Pender, Nebraska  (Age 82 years)   2. Mary Ann STEELE,   b. 8 Dec 1852, Jackson Co., Iowa ,   d. 1860, Decatur, Decatur, IA  (Age 7 years)   3. James William STEELE,   b. 14 Apr 1854, Jackson Co., Iowa ,   d. 5 Jun 1927, Redvale, Mntrs, CO  (Age 73 years)   4. Katherine Etta STEELE,   b. 26 Nov 1855, Dubuque, Jackson Cty, IA ,   d. 3 Jul 1949, Wala Wala Wash  (Age 93 years)   5. Monroe Jackson STEELE,   b. 2 Apr 1857, Dubuque, Jackson Cty, IA ,   d. 9 Feb 1938, Neola Iowa  (Age 80 years)   6. Nancy Ann Eveline STEELE,   b. 12 Nov 1858, Leon, at Decatur, Iowa ,   d. 20 Dec 1930, NEOLA, IOWA  (Age 72 years)   7. Charles Milton STEELE,   b. 11 Nov 1860, Decatur, Jackson, Iowa ,   d. 17 Dec 1948, Vernal, Uintah, Utah  (Age 88 years)   8. John Alvin STEELE,   b. 13 Apr 1862, High Point, Decatur, IA ,   d. 12 Aug 1952, Caldwell, Canyon, ID  (Age 90 years)   9. Thursea Jane STEELE,   b. 3 Nov 1864, Crescent City, Ptta, Iowa ,   d. 22 Jul 1955, North Platte, Lincoln Nebraska  (Age 90 years)   10. Charlotte Emeline STEELE,   b. 18 Sep 1865, Crescent City Iowa ,   d. 22 Jun 1957, Millbrae, San Mateo Cty, CA  (Age 91 years)   11. Susan Evangeline STEELE,   b. 12 Dec 1867, Crescent City, Pttwtt, IA ,   d. 10 Nov 1946, Mesa, Mrcp, AZ  (Age 78 years)   12. Benjamin Franklin STEELE,   b. 29 Mar 1870, Neola Iowa ,   d. 15 Feb 1968, Montrose, Montrose Cty, CO  (Age 97 years)
  Last Modified	15 Oct 2020
  Family ID	F19	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  From the Weekly Newspaper (by Steve Raabe) Battlement Mesa...(Photo by Lynn Burton) June 2, l982 JANE BROOKS STEELE; FINALLY RESTING IN PEACE. Jane Isabel Brooks Steele was finally laid to rest Saturday, almostl00 years after she died at the old homestead up Parachute Creek. Mrs. Steele died sometime around l890 (determined later l891) and her grave had remained on a corner of the l60 acre Steele homestead forthe past 95 years or so years. But along came modern technology and with it, the Chevron Oil ShaleCo. now Chevron, wants to build a pipeline near the Steele grave. "It boiled down to a choice of leaving the grave in an industrialarea, or moving it" said Doug Fassbinder, grandson of Mrs. Steele's l2thyoungest child. Fassbinder raised his eyes from the newly-engraved tombstoneat the Battlement Mesa Cemetery and peered across the Grand Valley toward Parachute Creek. "So that's why we're here" They assembled last Saturdy, almost 40 of the Steele ancestors, andpaid their respects to what they hope will be the final resting place ofJane Isable Brooks Steele. It was neither a solemn nor joyous occasion. Portions of the gathering amost resembled a family reunion with clan members embracing others whom they hadn't seen for years. Many of the family , still living in Colorado ,had never met each other. Nobody got dressed up very much and somebody chuckled when a Steele ancestor asked what had happened to the old tombstone, and the answerwas "I don't know, you'll have to ask that crazy Aunt Edith of yours." But when the funeral service began, the cemetery became quiet exceptfor the gusting winds that blew dust into the sunny sky" I'm a littleashamed that almost all of us live here in Colorado and don't know each other."began Jesse Steele, dressed in cowboy hat, white shirt andbaggy, gray pin-striped trousers. "but I'm glad to be a part of this and I'mglad to be a descendant of Isabel Jane Brooks." The clicking of camera shutters broke the silence. "I guess back in the days of Grandma Brooks, " Jesse Steele continued."we all would have just hitched up a team and wagon and gone and visitedeach other. Now we hardly see each other. Steele talked for awhile about the kind of woman that Jane IsableBrooks Steele was - hard working, kind and softspoken - and then RobertSteele, one of Jane's grandsons who lives in Rangely, dedicated the grave witha short, quiet prayer. The mood lightened a little after that, and the assembled mediaattending the ceremony - including almost a dozen photographers, reporters and television camermen - drifted through the crowd to take pictures andfind people who would talk about Grandma Brooks. She was really a super person" Fassbinder told one reporter "she hadl2 kids, and she would fix individual meals for each one of them if they wanted. Nobody ever had a bad word to say aobut her" Fassbinder said Mrs. Steele and her husband, Fielding Steele, moved tothe Piceance Basin area after the Civil War. She died either in l887 orl89l (l89l), depending on which side of the family is relating the story,and she was buried under a sandstone tombstone about seven miles north of where the Town of Parachute is now located. The sandstone gravestone gradually weathered away, and it was replaced with granite in thel950's. Chevron contacted Fassbinder in March and discussed moving the grave.The company offered to pay all expenses. "I really felt negative at first," Fassbinder said, "but we didn'twant her resting in the middle of a refinery" Some family members stillfeel negative. "Some of us were pretty ticked-off and bitter about it, " said Lee Wilkerson, a son-in-law of one of Mrs. Steele's granddaughters. As the gathering dispersed, Robert Steele turned and took another lookat the flower-covered grave site after the wind and dust died down for afew seconds. "I guess I have mixed emotions about it,m "Steele said. "She'd been resting there for a long time. Maybe she should've stayed there"...

  
  

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