- Another Grandma Bailey DePriest (53 KB)
Another Pic of Grandma Bailey DePriest - Ocie&Wife (69 KB)
Ocie&Wife is of uncle 'Ocie' and aunt Maggie. He is Ocea P. Bailey and she isMaggie E. Farris. They produced 6 cousins but two of them died young. He wasa policeman in Lynchburg. - Some of Cleveland and Kate Steppe's children (169 KB)
Some of Cleveland and Kate Steppe's children, taken at a familyget-together at Uncle John's home. Notice the columns of the front porch andthe white picket fence around the large front yard, both of which no longerexist. The pic is of Lewis, Mary, Gordon, and Clyde (W. C. Steppe). - Bud&Wife (64 KB)
Bud&Wife is of uncle 'Bud' and aunt Martha. He is Oscar T. Bailey and she isMartha M Finch. They produced 12 cousins some of which have helped me withthe photos. I guess he farmed all his life. - Grandma Bailey DePriest (81 KB)
Grandma Bailey DePriest - Emma and John Stepp (120 KB)
I have waited on this several months, long enough for some confirmation of what I believe. I believe this to be a picture of Emma and John Stepp, though I can find no one to definitly say so.I found it in the photographs of my parents several years after they had died. It is definitly not from one of the other sides of my family, it can only be from the Steppe side. I think when Emma died that those around at the time took souvenirs. Uncle Daniel had the only know photo to Cleveland Steppe. Joy Steppe now has a couple of vases that belonged to Emma. So maybe my father took this photo.On the left is the full old tintype, the emulsion has dried and cracked with age and turned brownish, the corners are missing. Tintypes were current around 1875. On the right is an enlargement of the faces. The mans face has long pointed ears like those of Cleveland Steppe. And there are other similarities to other children of John D, like the thin short nose, about 1/4 the length of the face. The womans face has a wide, long, crooked nose about 1/3 the length of the face, like that of Frank Steppe and other children and grandchildren. Her hair is put up like that of known Emma photos years later. Thus the "Steppe Nose" came from Emma Layne and not John Stepp.Until someone can show that this is not John and Emma, or until we find a photo known to be of John D, I am believing this photo to be of John Dabney Stepp and Emma. - John&Wife (74 KB)
John&Wife is of uncle John and aunt Bertha. He is John Lumpkin Bailey and sheis Bertha Love Childress. The produced just 3 cousins. - Grandma Emma (57 KB)
Grandma Emma, grandmother of W. C. Steppe, vaguely remembered by someof us great-grandchildren as 'the woman in black.' - Kates Family (214 KB)
Here is one fantastic picture, dug out by Milton Bailey who remembered that it existed. He found it in his sister Gladys' things. Milton is single and lives with sister Katie Mae. He looks in on his other sisters Gladys and Mildred; they are all widows; all are children of Bud Bailey, a brother of Kate Bailey Steppe.KatesFamily4: seated are Martha Moses Bailey DePriest and second husband Lewis DePriest. The children of Martha and John P Bailey are John, Oscar (Bud), Ocea, and our grandmother Kate. - BudsFamily (1226 KB)
BudsFamily is of Uncle Bud, aunt Martha, and 12 cousins of W. C. Steppe.Claude was killed in WWII years before the photo was made. - John Pleasant Bailey (69 KB)
He is John Pleasant Bailey, the husband ofGrandma DePriest. He was born June 26, 1852 and died July 2, 1887, only 37years old and after 10 years of marriage to Martha VIrginia Moses =Bailey=DePriest. - Oceas Family (1026 KB)
Oceas Family shows on the top row Ocea (Buck) Bailey Jr and wife Anne, Rachel Bailey and husband Sheldon Roberts, and Archer Bailey and wife Ruth. Below are Ruperta Bailey Hamilton and a WWII service man invited to spend a weekend with a nearby family, and two sons of Ocea that died young. - Lizzie & Cleveland Steppe Tombstone (75 KB)
Lizzie & Cleveland Steppe Tombstone - JohnsBaileyChildren (410 KB)
JohnsBaileyChildren shows Irene Bailey and husband Barna Jones, John Bailey Jr and wife Grace, and Irvin Bailey and children at christmas. - Bridge Pier (138 KB)
In 1930 Cleveland and his 17 year old son Lewis were working on a bridge nearMemphis TN. On July 16, he fell from the bridge. Son Lewis watched him fallall the way down to his death on the works below. I have most of two sets ofbridge pictures. One set is of pier construction and the other of roadbedconstruction. The onlybridge picture found in Kate Steppe's things aftershe died was this picture from the pier construction set, I guess Clevelandsent it to her in Staunton. I have to think that he is one of the men in thepicture, there would be no other reason for her to have it. - Zach & John (190 KB)
Zach&John2-MB: This old tintype shows a couple of clowns; pretending to be outlaws. John P. Bailey is seated with cigar chomping brother Zach standing behind. The camera brought out the actor in all of us even 125 years ago! - Roadbed (26 KB)
Evidentaly Cleveland sent some of the bridge pictures home, to GrandmaDePriest, since there are notes on the back of a couple of the roadbedconstuction set. This picture has written on the back'that is Louis withthe hat on'.My father, Lewis Steppe, is on the left. He has gloves and ahat on, the other men are wearing 'caps'. - Two of W C (171 KB)
Two of W C shows Steppe as a teenager? That is a pipe in his mouth! He appears to be clowing for the camera. - Kate (23 KB)
About 1925 Lizzie Kate Steppe went to the mental institution at Staunton VA,she had 'nervous spells'. Her children went to live with Grandma DePriest andhusband Cleveland traveled to do bridge work. She stayed at the institutionthe rest of her life, working in the cafeteria making salads. In the summer,she would visit and stay with children that had married and settled. Thisphoto shows Kate in front of Alice and Gordon Steppe's house. - Jordan Family (272 KB)
JordanFamily-NJ: On the left Maggie Mae Steppe and husband Richard Frank Jordan, 'uncle Frank'. The children are Nellie, Marion, Maggie, and Alice. Then Warren, Billy, Tom, and Clyde. - Emma Steppe (177 KB)
EmmaSteppe-NJ is the most charming picture I have seen so far. Seated isEmma Haskins Layne=Steppe=Farris, the wife of John Dabney Steppe, themother of Cleveland and 11 other children. With her is an aunt of W. C.Steppe, Kate Steppe Francisco. NJ indicates that the picture came fromNellie Jordan,another cousin of W. C. - Cleveland Steppe (114 KB)
Cleveland-AS is the only known photo of Daniel Cleveland Steppe. It came tome from Alice Steppe. I think Louise Steppe gave it to her when uncleDaniel died a couple of years ago. Alice remarks that he was a handsome man. - Walter&Nannie (63 KB)
Walter&Nannie is of Walter Steppe and wife Nannie - Ruth and Mary (36 KB)
Ruth and Mary-CD: Ruth wears a light cotton dress and hair net, her work uniform. Sister Mary casts an admiring glance. Country people dressed to work a full day each morning and this became a lifelong habit. - SteppeFamily (82 KB)
SteppeFamily shows on the back row: Daniel, Gordon, and Lewis, on the frontrow: Mary, Ruth, and Clyde(W.C.Steppe) - Ruth and Roscoe (45 KB)
Ruth and Roscoe-CD: - Emma&Bob (95 KB)
Emma&Bob is of Emma Steppe, husband Bob Maxey, and daughter Ada. - Obituaries (198 KB)
Obituaries enumerates the descendants of John D. and Emma Stepp; and of John P. and Martha Bailey. The children of Cleveland and Kate Bailey Steppe had 59 living cousins when their grandmothers died. - FourSisters (92 KB)
FourSisters is of the four daughters of John D. and Emma. They are AnnieRice, Emma Maxey, Kate Francisco, and Maggie Jordan. - Franks Family (151 KB)
Franks Family: Top; Frank Layman Steppe stands with a friend aboard a battleship. His wife Dolly Bagby. Bottom, Son 'Buddy' continues the family tradition; he is one of the grandsons mentioned in Emma's obituary as 'in uniform'. Layman Jr. and W C's brother, Daniel, enjoying just being together. A third son, Robert, died young. - Frank&Dollie (67 KB)
Frank&Dollie is of Frank Layman Steppe and wife Dollie Bagby. He has thetypical Steppe nose! - Hunter Family 3 (98 KB)
Hunter Family 3: Joshuary Hunter Steppe (Hunt), wife Rosa Alice Rosser; and children. Another child, Christine, died young. - Hunter Steppe (67 KB)
Hunter is of Hunter Steppe. I think he had a wife and children. - Daniel Cleveland Steppe (117 KB)
Here are the newspaper notices of the death of Daniel Cleveland Steppe. There is no Lowden in Tennesee but there is a Loudon located on a river in east-central Tenn in Loudon County. It is interesting that the accident happened on a Wednesday in another state and the body was home for the funeral that Friday! - Kate&Pete (74 KB)
Kate&Pete is of Kate Steppe, husband Pete Francisco, and son Winston. - Bens Phota (129 KB)
Ben Bailey of Larned Kansas is a third cousin of W. C. Steppe. He paid to have much of the research done that I sent to you on the Bailey family. Eventually Justin will add the Bailey side to his family tree? Ben had an old picture that his grandfather passed on, he knows that one person in the picture is his great-grandfather Jesse H. Bailey Jr, a cousin of John Pleasant Bailey, my and Dan's great-grandfather. The other men were never identified so Ben has been showing the picture to relatives here in Virginia when he comes and has had if published in the Brookneal newspaper to ask for help.A National Park Service person specializing in old clothing has placed the time of the picture at 1885. Ben works for NPS. The standing man on the left end is Jesse H. Bailey Jr. In 1885 he was 24 years old and the standing left man in the picture looks close to that age. If we assume that the men are relatives then the two older standing men on the right would have to be uncles. Now all of the Bailey uncles died in the war except German S. Bailey who was 66 years old in 1885. Niether standing older man on the right is that old. So they would have to be Bailey uncles in through the wife of Jesse Bailey Sr who was Mary Hudson, or maybe descendants on the Daniel side of the family.The man standing on the left and the one seated on the left and maybe others have the Bailey head; shaped like a hexagon with big ears at two vertices. Look at pictures of my father and other Bailey ancestors. And another point to consider is the placement of hands on shoulders which would seem to say "this is my son" or "this is my brother"Anyway, the picture is interesting to look at and think about. Comparing it with the Bailey chart that I sent to you makes us wish that Jesse H Bailey Jr had let someone know who the men were! - Tucker Steppe (100 KB)
Tucker is of Tucker Steppe. He is Maggie's twin, he never married, and drovea streetcar in Baltimore most ofhis life. He is burried at New Chapel inCampbell Co. beside his twin sister. - Petes Family-KS (767 KB)
PeteFamily-KS: John Anderson (Pete) Steppe (Son of John D and Emma) and his wife Lillie Eva Wright. The children are (left to right) Jim, Rachel, Walker, Bob, Bill, and Charlie. Charlie is the father of Ken Steppe. Ken provided these photos and Steppe research. - Steppe Kids (73 KB)
Steppe Kids-CD: Left to right; Mary, Gordon, Clyde, Daniel, and Ruth. You recognize the white picket fence around uncle John's front yard. - Elizabeth Drinkard (5 KB)
The only great-great-grandparent picture I know of: Elizabeth Drinkard, born 10 July 1822, wife of James Layne and mother of Emma Haskins Layne. Cathy Day, wife of our third cousin Buddy Day, provided the picture.
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