Decatur County Journal
October 27, l904

JAMES SAGE was born in Hadley, Saratoga Co., N.Y. and died in Grand
River Township, Decatur Co., Iowa, Oct. 9, l904, aged 8l years, l month
and l4 days. He emigrated to Oswego, Ill., in l845, and on the l3th of
November l855, was married to MARTHA G. STORY, of Aurora, Ill. To them
were born six children of whom four are still living. MR. and MRS. SAGE
moved to Decatur Co., in l869 and settled in the home where they were
still living at the time of his death. He enlisted in the Army, Aug.
30, l862, as a member of the l29th Illinois Volunteers, and faithfully
served his country until honorably discharged at the end of the civil
war.

MR. SAGE was converted in his l7th year, and joined the Methodist Church
of which he remained a faithful member until l890, when he joined the
Wesleyan Methodist Church, remaining in this connection until death.

His life was all that could be expected or desired in the life of an
honest, upright, conscientious Christian. He was opposed to the liquor
traffic, which is such a curse to our country.

The funeral was preached at the Elk Chapel by Rev. A.C. Heckathorn from
Heb. 7, 25, which quotation was one of his last utterances on earth. He
said to the writer a few days before his death that he did not know
whether he would live or die, but to him it made no difference as he was
fully prepared to go.

His remains rest in the Elk Chapel Cemetery.
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