Answer:
I am wood that is neither hard straight or crooked
I begin your sentences.
I start with an E end with an E and have a letter in me.
I am taken from a mine and shut in a wooden case from which I am never released. Yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
I have a brother. However much we run we do not reach each other.
It has no top or bottom, but it can hold flesh, bones, and blood all at the same time.