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- Sage Family of Shawnee County, Kansas
A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans - (1918)
Sage Family of Shawnee County. The name of Sage has been very prominently identified with Shawnee County, particularly in the community around Dover, for a half century or more. The family is one that would prove a valuable contribution to any community. They have been upright and conscientious citizens, have done their share of the development work connected with the raising of a new country to the best standards of civilization, and there is probably not a single member of the family who has not pulled his own weight in the world.
The first of this particular family to come from Somersetshire, England, the original seat of the family, to America was Arthur Sage. His parents were Samuel and Elizabeth (Davis) Sage. Arthur located in Onondaga County, New York. His experience in the New World was very gratifying, and the reports he sent back home caused his father Samuel to also come to America. He too was favorably impressed, and about the year 1849 he sent for the other members of the family to join him. Samuel Sage was twice married. None of the children of his first wife ever lived in America. One son of the first marriage was named Aaron and he gained distinction by being selected a member of the Queen's Guard.
The children of Samuel Sage by his second marriage were: Arthur, Ann, who married Simon Mayne; John, Alfred, Mark, Samuel, Aaron, Elizabeth, who married Edward Stock; and Walter. The only one of these children who never lived in Kansas was Walter. Walter enlisted in Battery F of the Third New York Light Artillery early in the war, and died of typhoid fever at Newbern, North Carolina, unmarried.
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