Sage, Martha E.

SAGE

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Date: 10/11/2006 at 01:29:37

Martha E. Sage

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.123, James Twp.)
Martha E. Sage, Oakland, widow of Charles S. Sage, who was born in Berlin, Hartford Co., Conn., January 4, 1845, son of Ralph and Katharine (Marcy) Sage. Mr. Sage died March 27, 179. He was a farmer, had held several township offices, and was a Republican in politics. He enlisted in the Union army during our late civil war, and served four years, up to the close of that bloody conflict. He came to this county in 1871, locating in Center Township. March 25, 1876, he removed to James Township, where he purchased 160 acres of improved land at $15 per acre. He was married, January 31, 1870, in Fenton, Whitesides Co., Ill., to our subject, then Martha E. Stevens, born in Bradford County, Penn., February 28, 1847. She is the daugther of Solon and Charlotte (Smith) Stevens, he born in Bradford County, Penn., October 17, 1820, and she a native of New York State, born September 22, 1822. The parents are still living in Whitesides County, Ill., and are farmers. They had seven children - one boy and six girls - of whome one girl is deceased. Our subject received her education in Whitesides County, Ill. In 1880, she built a one-and-a-half-story frame house, 16 x 24, well finished. Her two daughters are living with her - Lotta Callista, born December 5, 1870; and Etta Maude, born December 18, 1876. Our subject lives on the place, but rents the land, having general farming done thereon.