From the News, Lynchburg, VA, 21 August 1925 p.2 c.2:
"Funeral of N.M. Steptoe. Funeral services for Nathaniel Macon Steptoe were held yesterday morning in Trinity Episcopal Church in Boonsboro, conducted by Rev. J.H. Ellis, with interment in the Meriwether family burying ground beside his wife, who died some years ago. / Mr. Steptoe was born October 30, 1844, near New London, at 'Federal Hill,' historic old home of his grandfather, 'Jimmy' Steptoe, who was for more than fifty years the clerk of the Bedford county court when that county was a vast indeterminate area which stretched westward to the Mississippi river. His father was Thomas Steptoe, son of the old clerk, and his mother was Louisa Yancey. Mr. Steptoe was a student at old Lynchburg College on what is now Wise street when he left school at sixteen years of age to join the Confederate army. He served four years in the Kirkpatrick Battery and participated in forty battles during that struggle, bearing only a slight wound in his chest as a souvenir of his years of continuous service. His tall, dignified figure would be seen each memorial Day as he foregathered here with the lessening band of Confederate veterans to renew the memories of the conflict. / In 1876 he married Miss Sallie U. [sic] Harris, who died some years ago. Only two of his children survive him, Mrs. George Miller and Miss Louise C. Steptoe. His sister, Mrs. Fannie Steptoe Radford, is now the only surviving member of a family of ten brothers and sisters. / The Confederate flag was draped on his casket and a deputation from the Garland-Rodes Camp of Confederate Veterans attended the burial services. The pallbearers were Dr. F.M. Howell, T. Yancey Steptoe, John Rucker, William Rucker, J.H. Webb and Thomas Oliver. / Flowers were borne by neighbors and other friends."

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