Biography of William Lewis Gage - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 333

William Lewis Gage, a prominent and enterprising farmer of Jonesboro
Township, was born in Greene County, Ark., November 27, 1845, and is
the son of Jeremiah and Martha (Hutchins) Gage, both natives of
Tennessee, who were married in that State and emigrated to Arkansas
about 1830. They first located at Gage's Point, on the Cache River, and
from there went to St. Francis, and afterward to Greene County. He was
a farmer all his life, and during the War of the Rebellion served under
Gen. Marmaduke of the Trans Mississippi department, receiving a wound
in a battle in Missouri, from the effects of which he died at Cane
Hill, Washington County, in November of 1864. He was a member of the
Missionary Baptist Church, a devout Christian and strong in his
political convictions. They were the parents of eight children, four of
whom are living and in this county. After her husband's death Mrs. Gage
married Larkin Johnson, of Greene County. She died in 1868, aged forty
years. W. L. Gage was reared in Greene County, receiving a moderate
education. In the spring of 1863 he enlisted in Col. Cooper's company
and surrendered at Shreveport, La., June 9, 1865. In 1870 he moved to
Craighead County, locating on his present farm, and having been very
successful in farming operations at present owns 1,620 acres in Greene
and Craighead Counties. He devotes much time to stock raising and takes
great interest in obtaining better breeds of stock. Mr. Gage was
married October 22, 1868, to Maria [p.333] Elizabeth Paramore, a native
of Missouri, and daughter of Robert P. and Nancy Caroline (Mansese)
Paramore. The fruits of this marriage are six children, one deceased:
Ona Kate, Martha Caroline, Ethel Paramore, Grace Truman, Mary Ella and
Mand Almer. Mr. Gage is a member of the I. O. O. F. and Knights of
Honor fraternities, and he and wife and three oldest daughters are
members of the Missionary Baptist Church at Jonesboro, and he is one of
the executive board of the Mt. Zion Association of that denomination.