SAGE, MRS. MIRIAM

SAGE, SWAYZE, CANUM, MCBURNEY

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/16/2013 at 07:27:06

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 814-815

SAGE, MRS. MIRIAM--Widow of the late Levi Sage, who was born in Canada, February 23, 1816, and after finishing his eduaction engaged in farming till October, 1865, when he came to Iowa and settled where his widow now lives and owns forty acres of well-improved land. He was married February 23, 1841, in Canada, to Miss Miriam Swayze, who was born in 1819. From this union there were eleven children as follows: Martha (born May 25, 1842, and died in June, 1842), Emerson W. (born May 3, 1843; married and is a Methodist minister in Story county, Nevada), Mary H. (born October 17, 1844, and died March 18, 1870), Susan C. (born October 16, 1847; now the wife of Edward Canum, a farmer in Iowa county), Levi L. (born March 28, 1849; married; lives in Blue Earth county, Minnesota), James Emory (born September 28, 1852; married; is a miller in Iowa City), Elias A. (born January 25, 1854; died June 17, 1854), Martha M. (born September 6, 1856; now the wife of Solon McBurney, a farmer in Warren township), Joseph B. (born February 14, 1859; now in Colorado), Wendell E. (born February 20 1862; lives with his mother and works the farm), Miriam E. (born March 20, 1864). Mr. Sage, after many years of suffering from rheumatism, died in January, 1870. He was an active, earnest worker and member of the M.E. Church, a kind neighbor, a loving husband and father, and being known and respected by all who knew him his loss was felt by his many relatives and friends.