-----Original Message----- From: Carey Bracewell <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, February 03, 2000 6:11 PM Subject: Fw: GAGE >Hi Carolyn, > > How kind of you to share the 1840 Saline census reference to the family >of my ggg-gf, REUBEN GAGE (1765-1844)! REUBEN was an original Austin >Colonist in Texas and only stopped off in Saline County long enough to >wait out Comanche and other troubles then raging in the Republic of Texas >{his son, DAVID A. GAGE, my gg-gf, was killed by Indians}. REUBEN's wife, >ABIGAIL BURLESON (1772-1865) was sister to General EDWARD BURLESON, >commander of the center division at the Battle of San Jacinto (1836). My >beloved grandmother, SARAH ABIGAIL GAGE (1864-1945) was named for this >great- grandmother. > > The Saline County BRAZILs knew their fellow Baptists, the GAGEs, long >before my >grandparents married in Texas in 1886: REUBEN's son, JONAS GAGE, served on >the Saline County grand jury with my gg-gf MOSES BRAZIL (1803-1872) in the >Summer of 1843. {CC Common Law Book "B", p. 41}. REUBEN GAGE appears to >have died unexpectedly in RICHARD BRAZIL's hotel in Benton on Halloween, >1844, while enroute from Tennessee to Texas {Saline probate records}. JESSE >BRAZIL(1827-1888), my g-gf, may have chosen the Smithville area of Texas, >near the Bastrop-Fayette county line, because of his prior acquaintance with >the GAGEs already living there. > >Carey > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Carolyn Earle Billingsley <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >Date: Thursday, February 03, 2000 12:10 PM >Subject: GAGE > > >>My Rootsweb PML search found the following about a Saline County resident >>and I thought it might be useful to someone connected to these families. >>Ruben GAGE, as well as Burleson, Jonas, and G.W. GAGE are enumerated in >>Saline County in 1840 (Saline Township, p. 211). Carolyn >> >>============================================================ >>A result of your requested PML search. To refine or cancel this >>search, please visit http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >>============================================================ >>Match: "Saline County" and "Arkansas" >>Source: GC-Rusk Co. Tx Bios Forum >>URL: >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/RuskBios?read=110 >>From: "Gloria B. Mayfield" <[email protected]> >>Subject: Edward Patterson GAGE >> >> >>Surname: GAGE >>------------------------- >> >>Edward Patterson GAGE >> >>The following bio was taken from pages 205-206 of the book entitled "Rusk >>County History" compiled and edited and used with permission of the Rusk >>County Historical Commission. >>Transcribed by Gloria Riley >>Submitted by Gloria Briley Mayfield, Rusk County TX Coordinator >> >>Ruben Gage was born February 10, 1770 and died in Saline County, Arkansas, >>October 31, 1844. He married Abigail Burleson, born in 1772 in North >Carolina, >>daughter of Rachel and Aaron Burleson, and died in 1865 in Bastrop County, >>Texas. The Gage children were: Matthew, born in 1793 in Haywood County, >>Tennessee; Moses, born in 1795 in Fayette County, Tennessee; David A., >>born in 1796 in Haywood County, Tennessee; Burleson, born in 1804 in Tipton >>County, Tennessee; George Washington, born in 1806; Jonas, born in 1808 >>in Tennessee; Calvin, whose date of birth is unknown; and Samuel Patterson, >>born in 1801 in Tennessee. >> >>Samuel Patterson's first marriage was to Polly Sneed in December 1819 in >>Madison County, Alabama. His second marriage was to Susan Nelson, born >>January 30, 1809, in South Carolina. She had moved to Georgia and then >>to Alabama, where she met and married Samuel Patterson Gage in 1846. It >>is presumed that she is buried in Shiloh Cemetery. >> >>The children of Samuel and Susan are: Charles, born in 1844 in Alabama, >>and Columbus R., born in Rusk County, Texas, in 1848, died April 27, 1918 >>and is buried in Gage Cemetery. Columbus married Amelia Parker, who was >>born in 1836 and died June 4, 1893 and is buried in Shiloh Cemetery. >> >>The children of Columbus and Amelia were: Alice, who married Jerry Allen; >>Bloom, who married William Henson; Edward Patterson, who married Lou Tishie >>Flanagan. Edward Patterson was born December 12, 1882 and died November >>25, 1972; Lou Tishie Flanagan was born March 26, 1892 and died December >>27, 1971. Chap married Willie Davis; James Hogg married Noma Swinney, >Dellia >>married Rube Barker; Susan Rebecca married Paul McWhorter; Glessie married >>Cooter Shipp; Elizabeth married Arthur Harvey; Columbus Mills married >Beulah >>Long June 6, 1918. Columbus was born July 7, 1878 and died October 26, >>1972. Beulah Long was born June 29, 1901 and died March 9, 1962. >> >>Children of Edward Patterson Gage and Lou Tishie Flanagan were: Edward >>Eugene, born October 10, 1915, who married Priscilla Walker August 30, >>1940. Priscilla was born March 30, 1917. Edward Eugene and Priscilla had >>three children: Sandra Jean, Ciryle Lynn, and Reba Ernestean Gage. >> >>Written by Priscilla Gage >> >> >> >> > >