TITLE:  Marguerite Couturier Steedman

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier, June 12, 2001

SUBMITTED:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED:  Kim Grissom, June 2001

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Holly Hill - Miss Marguerite Couturier Steedman, 93, of 1048 B. Gilmore
Ave., Holly Hill, died Saturday at and Orangeburg hospital.  A memorial 
service will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday at the French Huguenot Church
in Charleston.  Avinger Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.  
Miss Steedman was born in Atlanta a daughter of the late William Kelsey
Steedman and Mrs. Lillie Mae Stephens Steedman.  She graduated from the
"Old Atlanta Conservatory of Music."  She was a feature writer for five
years for The Atlanta Journal Sunday magazine.  She wrote a column 
called the "Bookworm" for The News and Courier, Charleston.  In 1942, 
she published her first novel "But You Will Be Back," a best seller, 
and in 1962, she published a biblical novel "Refuge in Avalon," which 
was published in the United States and England.  In 1970, Miss Steedman
published "South Carolina Colony" for young people.  In 1984, she 
found in England the lost "Royal Seal of South Carolina" for which she 
received "The Order of the Palmetto" in 1985.  In 1970, she wrote the 
history of the French Huguenot Church of Charleston.  She was a member 
of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and a former member of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution.  She was a member of the 
Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, Eutawville.  She is survived by two 
cousins, Mrs. Toy Finch of Port Charlotte, Fla., and Mrs. Elizabeth 
Prince Leigh of Miami, Fla., a caregiver, Mrs. Linda Ingram of Holly 
Hill. (The Post and Courier June 12, 2001)
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