Sunday's Obituary - Mary Ann Steele Bennett

Mexia Weekly Herald - 6/28/1940

Mary Ann Steele was born on February 4, 1854 to the marriage of Alfonso Parcutt Steele and Mary Ann "Polly" Powell.

Her siblings included:

Hampton
Alonzo Leo
Alvarado "Rado"
Francis Marion "Frank"
Leonard
Missouri Alice

Mary Ann married Townsend Bennett in 1868 and had the following children:

James
Eveleen Pearl
Frederick
Roy Lee
Harvey Steele

Mary Ann Steele Bennett died on June 21, 1940 and is buried alongside her husband in the Mexia City Cemetery in Mexia, Limestone County, Texas.

Photograph taken by FindAGrave member, James Coston

Mary Ann Steele Bennett was a sister to my great-great grandfather, Francis Marion "Frank" Steele.