Steven is a 5th generation bloodline ancestor to Western Hero James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok and a member of one of the oldest families to settle the Connecticut Western Reserve of Ohio before statehood. The Beach (De la Beche) family lineage can be traced back to the Normans of the eleventh century A.D. and has included Tudor Knights, Lord Protectors of Kent England, Mayflower Passengers and Sons of the American Revolution.