Obituaries 2
Above is the death notice of my grandfather. Cleveland died
in Loudon, Tenn. It is interesting that he died on Wednesday and the body was
home for burial on Friday.
Here is the record of the funeral of my grandfather, Daniel Cleveland
Steppe. In those days there were flower bearers at a funeral. The sixteen
flower bearers listed here include relatives. For example Ada Hall is the
married daughter of Emma Steppe Maxey, the sister of D. C. Steppe. The honorary
pallbearers must be distant relatives or friends because I can’t identify any
of them. The active pallbearers are all close relatives. W.C., F.L., J. A., and
T. W. Steppe are brothers of Cleveland. The others are husbands of his sister
and niece.
This obituary ran in the Lynchburg news on Dec 25, 1944.
Born in 1850, my great grandmother Emma was 94 years old when she died Dec 24,
1944 at the home of her daughter, Maggie Stepp Jordan. I was one of the
fifty-six living great grandchildren mentioned in the obituary. And my father’s
brothers, Daniel and Clyde, were among the twenty-three grandchildren in
uniform to fight WW II. I remember going with my father to the home of uncle
Frank Jordan at the time. Son W. C. Steppe was inadvertently left out of the
list of surviving children. Four of her sons died before her: James, Edward,
Hunt, and my grandfather Cleveland.