Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1920 — DEATH CALLS ELIZUR SAGE [ARTICLE]

DEATH CALLS ELIZUR SAGE

DEATH CAME TO WELL KNOWN FARMER THIS TUESDAY MORNING AT HOSPITAL Elizur W. Sage, for many years a prominent farmer of this county, but who had been making his home on his farm near Rochester, Ind., for the past two years, died at the county hospital at seven-thirty o’clock this Wednesday morning after an illness of six months. Mr. Sage was seventy-one years of age at the time of his death and is survived by his wife and three children. Death was the result of ulcers of the liver for which Mr. Sage was operated upon last Monday. His decline since that time was rapid. He entered the hospital June thirteenth. —— Mr. Sage was born' at Channahan, 111., in the year 1849 where he continued to reside for many years. His marriage to Sarah Butts occurred on April 19, 1883, at Channahan. In the year 1896, he and his family came to this county to live, locating on a .farm northwest of Rensselaer. . They continued to make this county their home until about four years ago When Mr. Sage purchased a farm near Redwood, Minn. k and moved to _ that state. After residing in Minnesota for two. years, Mr. Sage and family again came back to Indiana to make their home, locating near Rochester, which is their present home. The deceased was a nephew of Russel Sage, the noted New York capitalist, and, upon the death of the latter, Mr. Sage was named as one of the heirs, receiving a sum of money approximating $50,000. Later, upon the death of Mrs. Sage, Mr. Sage was again named as ah heir, receiving a sum which almost equalled the first bequest. The deceased was a member of the Methodist church, having become a member of that denomination when a young man. He was also a member of the Moose lodge of this city and the G. A. R., having served his country during the Civil war. Throughout his life he followed-farming as a vocation. Mr. Sage was the father of four children by his first marriage and the father of three by his second. The latter three are Mrs. David Zeigler, of this county; Russell Sage, of Rochester; and Kermit, at home. ■ ' .. The remains will be taken to the J. W. Stockton apartments in the Makeever hotel where the friends of the deceased may view them and where brief services will be held at three o’clock Thursday afternoon. On Friday the body will be taken to Channahan where interment will be made.