Sarah Steele Fitch
Title
Sarah Steele Fitch
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Section
Lot
Grave
02A
First Name
Middle Name
Steele
Last Name
Relationship
Daughter of Alexander Steele, M.D. (C-22-01) & Maria Whedon Steele (C-22-03); [assume wife of Albert Bushnell Fitch (C-25-01)]
Death Date
09/15/1880
Death: Month
9
Death: Day
15
Death: Year
Gender
Number of Persons on Marker
Composition
Condition
Shape
State
Legibility
Good
Dimension: Height
69 inches
Dimension: Width
38 inches
Source of Information
Information taken from Westwood Printout and grave marker, if available; check the original burial register at city hall for additional data
Comments
Note the discrepancy between the death date on the marker (9/15/1880) and the death/burial date on the Westwood printout (6/3/1881); a reburial? Check the original burial register.
Biographical Information
Information on the Steele family is in, among other places, "Another Honored Citizen Gone," Oberlin News, May 2, 1905, pp. 1ff, and Wilbur H. Phillips, Oberlin Colony: The Story of a Century (Oberlin, Ohio: n.p., 1933), esp. pp. 218-239.
Burial Date from Printout
06/02/1881
Burial: Month
Burial: Day
2
Burial: Year
Lot Owner
Steele, Alexander
Date Transcribed
09/12/2001
Default Latitude
41.28349852
Default Longitude
-82.23553993
Default Zoom Level
20
Collection
Citation
“Sarah Steele Fitch,” Westwood Database, accessed April 30, 2024, https://www.oberlinwestwood.org/omeka/items/show/57431.