Sage, Gary D.

SAGE, GRAY, STORY

Posted By: Mary H. Cochrane, Volunteer
Date: 7/7/2019 at 19:12:34

Biographical and Historical Record of Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa, (Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), pp. 675-76:

"JAMES SAGE, section 16, Grand River Township, is a native of Saratoga County, New York, born August 25, 1823, a son of Bela and Polly (Gray) Sage, his father a native of Salem, Massachusetts, and his mother of New York. He is the fourth of five sons. His brothers being Enoch, Sylvester, Perry and Henry. He remained in his native county until manhood, and in his youth attended the common schools. In June, 1845, he left home and went to Chicago, Illinois, then a village of a few hundred inhabitants. He proceeded to Oswego, Kendall County, Illinois where he lived about twelve years, and then went to Livingston County, the same State, where he was living at the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion. August 20, 1826, he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Illinois Infantry. He participated in many hard battles and skirmishes, and for some time was engaged in guarding railroads. He was honorably discharged in June, 1865, at Washington City. While in the service the exposures and hardships he was obliged to endure resulted in disease, from which he has never fully recovered. In 1869 he moved from Livingston County, Illinois, to Decatur County, Iowa, and located on section 16, Grand River Township, where he has since lived. His land of which he has 320 acres is well watered by Elk Creek, and is well adapted to stock-raising, at which enterprise Mr. Sage has been very successful. He was married November 13, 1855, to Miss Martha G. Story, a sister of A. C. Story, a prominent attorney of Chicago, Illinois. They have four children -- Julia, Emma, Eva May and Cyrus Perry. In politics Mr. Sage is a Republican. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church."

(Submitted to the Decatur County GenWeb site by Christy Jay, email: Jaygenie@aol.com)