This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SAGE, SPOFFORD, KINGSBURY, COVERT, KELLY, PENNY, WILSON Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xY.2ADI/776 Message Board Post: Hello, These are not my relatives. Information was found in the 1892 Portrait & Biographical Album of Genesee, Lapeer & Tuscola Counties, Chapman Bros. in Michigan. I hope that it helps someone with their history. Colleen Reuben W. Sage, the Postmaster of Mundy, Genesee County, was born in Erie County, N.Y., July 30, 1833. When about two years old he removed with his parents too Michigan, settling in Macomb County, and he lived their until he was some sixteen years old, passing his boyhood days upon the farm. At that age he came with his parents too Oakland County and settled in Addison, where he lived with them until 1852, at which time he purchased sixty acres in the south part of Mundy Township, and the following spring built a log house upon his property, which he occupied for twenty-five years. At the end of that time he erected a modern and attractive home, which is now his place of residence. Farming has been the chief business of Mr. Sage’s life and he now owns one hundred and sixty acres of rich and arable land. He was married in Addison, Oakland County, this State, October 30, 1854, too Fannie L. Kingsbury, who was born in Addison, August 3, 1837. The following children have blessed this home, Edwin A., who married Ardilla Covert; James L., who took too wife Nancy Kelley (now deceased); Charles W., who married Maggie Penny; and Elvert E., who was killed June 9, 1891, while assisting in raising a barn on his father’s farm in Mundy Township, being then nineteen years old. For eight years Mr. Sage has filled the office of Justice of the Peace and he was appointed Postmaster under Cleveland’s administration, in 1886, and has held that office since. He formerly acted with the Republican party, but of late years has been a Prohibitionist, and takes and active part in political movements. The Methodist Episcopal Church is the religious body with which Mr. and Mrs. Sage are connected and he has held the office of Class Leader since 1872. Mr. Sage enlisted in July, 1862, in Company C, Twenty-third Michigan Infantry, and served for three years, taking part in all the battles in which that regiment was engaged. Among them we may mention Campbell Station, siege of Knoxville, Resaca, Dallas, Lost Mountain, Kenesaw, the siege of Atlanta, Columbia, Franklin, Nashville, Spring Hill, Goldsboro, Ft. Anderson and Willmington. He was promoted too the rank of Corporal and was mustered out of the service at Salisbury, N.C., receiving his discharge at Detroit, and left the service with greatly impaired health. The father of Mrs. Sage was the Rev. Leonard Kingsbury, and her mother bore the maiden name of Esther Wilson. Both of them were New Yorkers, the mother being born at Crown Point. Mr. Kingsbury was a minister of the free Will Baptist Church. They both died in Addison, Oakland County, and left eight children, of whom Mrs. Sage is the youngest. The parents of Mr. Sage were James and Nancy (Spofford) Sage, the former a native of Connecticut And the latter a New Yorker. He was a weaver by trade, but devoted his life mostly too farming. He died in Addison, but his faithful companion, who survived him, expired at the home of her son, our subject, in Mundy Township. They were the parents of six children and their son, Rueben was the third in order of age. The beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Sage is the center of a delightful social life and the members of this family are deservedly popular and esteemed by their neighbors throughout the township and the county.