Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sage, James A. 1913
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Ionia Standard, 23 May 1913

James A. Sage died at the National Soldiers’ Home in Tennessee, on Tuesday, May 
20, according to his daughter, Mrs. Herbert Humphrey, who has been visiting 
friends here, but is now in Smyrna.  Mr. Sage was a resident of Otisco for many 
years, from which town he enlisted in Co. B, 25th Michigan Infantry in the fall 
of 1862, entering the service as orderly sergeant and rising to rank of first 
lieutenant.  He was wounded at the battle of Atlanta in 1864, and received his 
discharge in consequence.

He was elected register of deeds in 1876, after serving as supervisor from 
Otisco several terms.  At the expiration of his second term as register in 
1881, he continued his residence in Ionia.  He was in the grocery business for 
a time in company with Mr. Udell.  Subsequently he was the secretary and 
manager of the Ionia Pottery Company, being succeeded in that position by C.B. 
Derthick.

In 1904 he went to St. George, Ga., where he engaged in the hardware business, 
from which he retired three or four years ago.  For the past two years or more 
he has been incapacitated for labor and has been in Soldiers’ Home, 
occasionally visiting old-time friends and relatives.

His wife died several years ago.  Two daughters survive: Mrs. Wm. H. Booth of 
Grand Rapids, and Hattie, wife of Herbert Humphrey of Alabaster, Mich.  His age 
was about 75.  His death must have been quite sudden as his daughter Hattie 
received a letter from him Saturday last, in which there was no intimation of 
his being otherwise than in usual health.

The remains will be brought to Smyrna for the funeral and burial, George Purdy 
of that place, a nephew of the wife of deceased, going to Tennessee to give 
personal attention to the transportation.


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