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Buckeye Mill

Ad for the Buckeye Mill, from the Weekly Indianola Visitor, Indianola, IA, Thursday, June 14, 1860, p.3

Buckeye Saw Mill

Owners - B.L. & B.H. Steele
Sawyer - J. Stubbs

Located "two and a half miles northeast of Hartford, Warren County, Iowa" according to the Ad on the left.

Benajah L. Steele and his wife, Mary C., lived in Hartford, Iowa when the above ad for the Buckeye Mill was listed.  Benajah was born about 1816 in Ohio and his family were Quakers. Benajah was a physician.  Also living in the same household was Benajah H. Steele, possibly a cousin.  Benajah L. and Mary moved to Des Moines, Iowa by 1870 and lived there until Benajah L. Steele died on March 27, 1882.  He was buried in Hartford Cemetery.  Benajah H. Steele, born in Ohio about 1835, lived between Iowa and Ohio in the census years of 1870, 1880, and 1885. He eventually moved to Benton County, Arkansas, where he died June 23, 1921.

The Advocate-Tribune, Indianola, Iowa, Thurs., Mar. 30, 1882, p.5
Dr. B. L. Steele, at one time a resident of Hartford, died at his home in Des Moines, Monday, at the age of sixty-six.  He is spoken of as a man of considerable native talent, a profound writer, and always a friend to the poor and needy.

Jason Stubbs, sawyer at the Buckeye Mill, was listed in the 1860 census in Richland Township, Warren County, Iowa, with his wife, Mary H., and eight children.  His family came to Iowa about 1855.  By 1870 he was back in Ohio, and by 1874 Jason had moved to Yuba, California.  He lived there until his death, April 29, 1901.  Jason is buried in Wheatland Cemetery, Yuba County, CA.

Sources: compiled from Warren County newspapers, Census reports, Quaker meeting records online, marriage records for Belmont County, Ohio, Death records for Polk County, Iowa and Benton County, Arkansas, Find A Grave, and Ancestry.com