Samuel Augustus Steel

Samuel Steel was born in Grenada, Mississippi, in 1849 Samuel had felt a call to become a preacher, and began his quest for an education, attending a local one-room school, then an academy in Grenada, and finally, as a conference sponsored student at a school in Memphis. From there he went on to a Methodist college, supporting himself by preaching, and actually on weekends taking over a pastorate in Kentucky from an ill minister. Then he went off to Emory …