Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xv
Family Pedigree xix
1 "Husband What Is Thy Will?" Catherine Campbell Steele 1
2 "Convicts to Bondsman's Lands" Catherine Elizabeth Steele 18
3 "Letting Posterity Come In" Elizabeth Steele Stapley 38
4 "Nicest Great Grand Baby You Have Got" Catherine Steele 59
5 "She Wanted Her Own Rights" Sarah E. Roundy 83
6 "Do Their Own Doing" Sarah E. Roundy 102
7 "She Can Do It" Sarah E. Roundy 123
8 "Nothing Too Refined" Victor L. Sylvester 136
9 "Mother of the Ward" Sarah Catherine Stapley Roundy 150
10 "Let's Go Over and See President Harding" Joel J. Roundy 170
11 "Just Getting Nothing" Victor L. Sylvester 193
12 "Continue to Increase" Elizabeth Steele Stapley 212
13 "She Only Had One Mother" Sarah Catherine Stapley Roundy 229
14 "That Was Money in Her Pocket" Sarah E. Roundy Sylvester 244
15 "The Queen Bee" Sarah E. Roundy Sylvester 264
16 "Stern Looking but Well-Polished" Elizabeth Steele Stapley 281
17 "Poverty and Progeny": The Women 297
Notes 315
Bibliography 371
Index 379