Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameIda Mae STEELE 
Birth6 Jan 1873
Death17 Aug 1943, Oklahoma City, OK
BurialTecumseh Cemetery -Tecumseh-Pottawatomie County-Oklahoma, USA
AKA/AliasAunt Wheeler
FatherJohn STEELE (1842-1918)
MotherEmma Lamond MORGAN (1850-)
Spouses
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Notes for Ida Mae STEELE
“Aunt Ida was the daughter of John & Emma (Lamond/Lemond various spellings) Steele . Ida aka as aunt Wheeler. She married 24 December 1895 to 1st husband George A. Wheeler in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, Oklahoma.
George died in a coal mining accident sometime after 1916 when he was enumerated in the Oklahoma census April 16. He worked in Milby-Dow #9 as a shot fireman. After George's death, Ida later remarried to Oscar Carnahan. She operated a boarding house in Dewar, Oklahoma about the late teens-1920's.
Ida's siblings; William Frank, George, Luella, Homer, and Ray Wilson Steele.
Ida's surname on her headstone is incorrectly engraved as Cornahan. The correct spelling is Carnahan. She had no children.
OBITUARY
The Norman Transcript, Oklahoma, page 1
Published August 18, 1943
Mrs. Carnahan Dies
After Long Illness
Mrs. Ida Mae Carnahan, 69, died Tuesday eveing in Oklahoma City following a long illness. She made her home the last two and one half years with her niece Mrs. Hubert Owen, 725 East Rich street.
Two brothers Roy [sic] Steele, Norman, and George Steele, Oak Creek, Colo. are other survivors.
Funeral services will be ??????? a?. m. Thursday at Jansing-Primrose Funeral home chapel, with Rev. Marion Moreland, assistanct pastor of the first Baptist church, officiating.
Burial will be at Tecumseh cemetery, with six nephews of Mrs. Carnahan serving as the bearers.
Sources:
1880 Texas Census, Precinct 1, Cooke County
1900 Indian Territory (Okla.), Township 5, Choctaw Nation
1910 Oklahoma Census, Dow, Pittsburg County
1920 Oklahoma Census, Dewar, Okmulgee County”
Courtesy of KG:
Record added: Jun 12, 2003
Find A Grave Memorial# 7569877
George died in a coal mining accident sometime after 1916 when he was enumerated in the Oklahoma census April 16. He worked in Milby-Dow #9 as a shot fireman. After George's death, Ida later remarried to Oscar Carnahan. She operated a boarding house in Dewar, Oklahoma about the late teens-1920's.
Ida's siblings; William Frank, George, Luella, Homer, and Ray Wilson Steele.
Ida's surname on her headstone is incorrectly engraved as Cornahan. The correct spelling is Carnahan. She had no children.
OBITUARY
The Norman Transcript, Oklahoma, page 1
Published August 18, 1943
Mrs. Carnahan Dies
After Long Illness
Mrs. Ida Mae Carnahan, 69, died Tuesday eveing in Oklahoma City following a long illness. She made her home the last two and one half years with her niece Mrs. Hubert Owen, 725 East Rich street.
Two brothers Roy [sic] Steele, Norman, and George Steele, Oak Creek, Colo. are other survivors.
Funeral services will be ??????? a?. m. Thursday at Jansing-Primrose Funeral home chapel, with Rev. Marion Moreland, assistanct pastor of the first Baptist church, officiating.
Burial will be at Tecumseh cemetery, with six nephews of Mrs. Carnahan serving as the bearers.
Sources:
1880 Texas Census, Precinct 1, Cooke County
1900 Indian Territory (Okla.), Township 5, Choctaw Nation
1910 Oklahoma Census, Dow, Pittsburg County
1920 Oklahoma Census, Dewar, Okmulgee County”
Courtesy of KG:
Record added: Jun 12, 2003
Find A Grave Memorial# 7569877