Individual Details
Mary 'Dolly' Nessfield
(27 Sep 1762 - 19 Aug 1843)
Events
| Birth | 27 Sep 1762 | Bladen, North Carolina, British America |  | ||
| Residence | Bef 9 Feb 1783 | Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States | | ||
| Marriage | 9 Feb 1783 | Gen John Steele | | ||
| Picture | Abt 1791 | New York | | ||
| Occupation | 15 Aug 1815 | managing family business interests after her husband's death | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 14 May 1824 | cared for her granddaughters after therir mother died | | ||
| Death | 19 Aug 1843 | about half past 2 Saturday afternoon - Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina, United States | | ||
| Burial | Aft 19 Aug 1843 | |
Families
| Spouse | Gen John Steele (1764 - 1815) |
| Child | Anne Nessfield Steele (1784 - 1804) |
| Child | Margaret Gillespie Steele (1790 - 1824) |
| Child | William Steele (1793 - 1794) |
| Child | Elizabeth "Eliza" Steele (1795 - 1836) |
| Child | Infant son Steele (1798 - 1798) |
| Father | JOHN NESSFIELD (1727 - 1764) |
| Mother | Ann [Mills,Wills,Miller?] or White ( - 1783) |
| Sibling | Mary Nessfield (1757 - 1757) |
| Sibling | Ann Nessfield (1759 - ) |
Endnotes
1. Mrs. Elizabeth Steele Clary Roddey, NSDAR # 354948 - Mrs. Elizabeth Steele Clary Roddey Sep 21 1945.
2. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 7 June 2020), memorial page for Mary Nessfield Steele, Find A Grave Memorial # 28682857, citing Chestnut Hill Cemetery (Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina), memorial created by Richard Jordan, photograph by Richard Jordan and Devil Kitty Designs.
3. Jethro Rumple, A History of Rowan County, North Carolina (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books republished in 2005, 1916), 190 Section on John Steele.
4. Mrs. Elizabeth Steele Clary Roddey, NSDAR # 354948 - Mrs. Elizabeth Steele Clary Roddey Sep 21 1945.
5. Family data, John Steele Family Bible, The New Testament of our Land and Savior Jesus Christ, Newly Tranflated out of the Original Greek: And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revifed By his Majefty's Special Command. Apponted to be read in Churches, (London: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King's moft Excellent Majefty. MDCCXXXIII [1733], n.d.); original owned by Online at North Carolina Digital Collections, .
6. John H Wheeler, Historical Sketches of NC from 1584-1851: Vol I (Philadelpha, : Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1851), 381-383.
7. Compiled by Laura MacMillan, North Carolina Portrait Index, 1700-1860 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1963), 223.
8. John Steele Papers, 1716-1846, 00689 UNC - The Southern Histoical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library.
9. John Steele Papers, 1716-1846, 00689 UNC - The Southern Histoical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library.
10. Mrs. Elizabeth Steele Clary Roddey, NSDAR # 354948 - Mrs. Elizabeth Steele Clary Roddey Sep 21 1945.
11. Family data, John Steele Family Bible, The New Testament of our Land and Savior Jesus Christ, Newly Tranflated out of the Original Greek: And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revifed By his Majefty's Special Command. Apponted to be read in Churches, (London: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King's moft Excellent Majefty. MDCCXXXIII [1733], n.d.); original owned by Online at North Carolina Digital Collections, .
12. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 7 June 2020), memorial page for Mary Nessfield Steele, Find A Grave Memorial # 28682857, citing Chestnut Hill Cemetery (Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina), memorial created by Richard Jordan, photograph by Richard Jordan and Devil Kitty Designs.
13. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 7 June 2020), memorial page for Mary Nessfield Steele, Find A Grave Memorial # 28682857, citing Chestnut Hill Cemetery (Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina), memorial created by Richard Jordan, photograph by Richard Jordan and Devil Kitty Designs.