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Steele was married three times, to Lucia Hart ( 1843 – 1853 ), to Louisa B. Hamblin ( 1858 – 1866 ) and to Louisa Lanze ( 1875 – 1883 ).

Steele's first name is frequently erroneously reported as Elisha.

This is due to an original misreading or misrecording of an early California voter list.

This error first received wide circulation in Keith A. Murray's groundbreaking, The Modocs and Their War in 1959 and it has often been repeated.

Steele's grave marker, in Yreka, California's Evergreen Cemetery, clarifies this discrepancy, as does his obituary in the Yreka Journal of June 30, 1883.