Steel, Edward Marvin,

Heiskell, McCampbell, Wilkes, and Steel families of Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Members of these families included newspaper editors, lawyers, missionaries, Methodist ministers, teachers, an artist, a librarian, and a history professor. Heiskell family members lived on the Fruit Hill plantation near Knoxville, Tenn.

Ferdinand Lawrence Steel (1813-1873) spent much of his life as a farmer and itinerant Methodist preacher, especially in Mississippi. His son, Samuel Augustus Hankins Steel, served Methodist churches in Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Louisiana, and in towns throughout the South and Southwest. His son, Edward Marvin Steel, was a Methodist minister residing chiefly in Tennessee.

From the description of Heiskell, McCampbell, Wilkes, and Steel family materials collection, 1820-1979 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 26243216