Family History

The past several months have been busy ones researching the family history.
When meeting with Dorothy May Card and Dick Beem, who are descendents of the Stepp family, a photo copy of a page from a Colorado history book given to me that someone had copies many years ago. The subject was William L. Stepp. The page numbers skipped one page so wondered what was on that missing page the search was on.

After several attempts to find the book and not having any luck and I deciding to let it cool for a while. So off on another direction …..based on a reference from page 796 about the Leyden Coal Company [located 2.5 miles west of Indiana St. in Arvada, Jefferson County, Colorado]. (about 15 miles north west of Littleton, CO.) a search was started to try to find the connection.

Quite by accident in seeking information about the Coal mine a quote popped up about “one hundred sixty acres of land on which the coal mine was located” that looked like something I had read in the photo copy on William L. Stepp. Thus in re-reading it several more times it was discovered that it was the same. A Google Book Search was done and the book was found that had pages 796, 797 and 798 . They came from a History of Colorado published in 1918 by Wilbur Fiske Stone. The missing page of 797 was a picture of William L and Missouri A.E. Stepp.

Here is that picture.

This is the only picture we have ever seen of my great great grand parents.
Here is the family line.

William L. Stepp and Missouri were married 18 April 1858 they had 14 children.
Number nine was Olive Stepp born 27 November 1869 and Married Benjamin T. Parks 12 Dec 1886. They had 4 children Harvy, Thomas Benjamin Parks , Lora and Susie.
Thomas B. Parks married Beatrice Miller they had 2 children Thomas I Parks and Irma Margaret Parks who married Raymond Howard Baxter in 1939 and they had two sons
Raymond Eugene Baxter and Gary Dean Baxter

So now you know how we tie back to the Stepp family.

That is why I have not been posting to the blog.