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Gerold Steed

People

In the record

1934–1999

Gerold Steed

The 16 October 1960 recording is labeled Gerold Steed. Public records and a later archive funeral label point to Newel Gerald Steed (1934–1999), also recorded as Gerald. That identification is likely, and is treated as such on this page, but it is not a name clearly spoken on the 1960 tape.

The Social Security Death Index and related NUMIDENT listings record Newel G. Steed, also entered as Gerald and as Newel Gerald Steed, born 7 February 1934 in Ogden, Utah, son of Newel Steed and Eliza Pugh, and died 10 January 1999.1 This archive holds a later funeral, not published here, labeled Newel Gerald Steed and dated 12 January 1999, two days after that death date.2

In the 16 October 1960 talk the speaker says, “This is certainly a surprise to me.” A man born in February 1934 would have been twenty-six that October, which fits a first or early public testimony, but age alone does not prove the identification.3 If the identification holds, he was a son of Newel Steed and a nephew of Woodruff Steed, who spoke at the same meeting. The archive spelling Gerold is kept as the title of this page because that is the label on the 1960 file.

The identification of the 1960 speaker with Newel Gerald Steed is therefore likely, from the file label, the 1999 funeral label, and the public death record, and it is not treated here as a name confirmed on the tape itself.

Appearances

1960

  1. TalkZitting home, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Zitting home, Salt Lake City · 2:08:495:21

A later archive funeral labeled Newel Gerald Steed is dated 12 January 1999. It is not opened here.

Sources

  1. U.S. Social Security Death Index / NUMIDENT listings for Newel G. Steed, also recorded as Gerald Steed and Newel Gerald Steed: born 7 February 1934, Ogden, Utah, son of Newel Steed and Eliza Pugh; died 10 January 1999.
  2. Archive funeral files labeled Newel Gerald Steed, dated 12 January 1999. Those later recordings are not published here. The date is two days after the Social Security death date and is a lead, not a separate civil death record.
  3. Archive recording labeled Gerold Steed, Zitting home, Salt Lake City, 16 October 1960, catalog 79f9e3581a8c, 5:21, file 60-10-16-Gerold Steed-SLC-Zittings-General Meeting. 16 October talk. The text on the talk page is an automatic, unreviewed transcript; the recording is the source.