In a biography of the Steen family, he is named as the father of daughter Elizabeth Alice Moore, second wife of John Chambers Steen, who was born in 1849 in Adams County, Ohio. His birth year and place are estimates based on the birth year and place of his daughter.
John Chambers Steen was born on 26 November 1836 in Winchester, Adams, Ohio.
In 1858 he moved to Illinois and worked near Galesburg. After that, he moved to Sunbeam, Mercer County, Illinois. The two towns were about 32 miles apart. See: https://bit.ly/2VQflrg. He remained in Sunbeam until 1861 when he returned to Adams County, Ohio.
In 1863 he moved back to Illinois to Wenona, located in Marshall County.
He married first wife Mary Elizabeth Ramsey on 02 October 1861.
Mary Elizabeth Ramsey was born 04 April 1843 in Adams County, Ohio, and died near Wenona, Marshall County, Illinois, on 31 May 1865.
He married second wife Elizabeth Alice Moore on 05 January 1867 in Memphis, Missouri.
Elizabeth Alice was born 13 April 1849 in Adams County, Ohio, to William and Margaret Moore. She died in 1904 in Chicago, Illinois.
He married third wife Marianne Coons in 1906 in Wenona, Illinois.
Sources
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Steen, Moses Duncan Alexander, The Steen family in Europe and America : a genealogical, historical and biographical record of nearly three hundred years, extending from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Published 1917 in Cincinnati, Ohio, page 289, John Chambers Steen. See: https://bit.ly/2yQIkSL.
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