Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameJohn Sager 
47
47Birth20 Jan 1768, PA47
Death1850, Amity, Madison Co., OH47
FatherJohn George Sager (1738-1824)
MotherMary Elizabeth Schultz
Spouses
BirthVA47
Marriage179947
Marriage183047
ChildrenEleanor Fredericka (1845-1929)
George Nicholis (1831-1858)
John Thomas (1833-1924)
Jacob Andrew (1835-1847)
Caroline Elizabeth (1840-)
Notes for John Sager
From Newton book:
MILITARY SERVICE:- War of 1812, as to State troops, Regiment and Company,this is unknown at present; but I find on investigating from the warrecords of the State of Pennsylvania: There is a John Saeger among thelist of men who was drafted, mustered and equipped in the War of 1812.Page 553, series 6, Volume 7, Pennsylvania Archives.
Also the name JOHN SAGER appears under the command of Captain Jacob Solt,in active service, being the 8th Company of the 118 Regiment, September23, 1814, Series 6, Volume 9, Page 117, Pennsylvania Archives.
The State of Virginia, by their Attorney General, regrets that War playedhavoc with their war records to a great extent. I have in my possession,a picture, belonging to my Grand-mother Dominy, showing the Union troopsburning the Capitol, the City of Richmond, Virginia. It also shows theinhabitants and Confederate troops fleeing across the bridge over thePotomac River on the night of April 2, 1865.
RESIDENT:- Migrated with his parents from Pennsylvania to Virginia, butevidently did not come with the family to Ohio in 1805. Tradition wellsupports this fact that he was a resident of Jefferson County, Virginia,(now West Virginia,) and there served his country in the vicinity ofHarpers Ferry in the War of 1812, as a Teamster or Wagonmaster. Later hewas promoted to an officer. His sword is somewhere in the vicinity ofUnionville, because I have heard my mother talk about when she was a girlgoing with her mother to visit Uncle Chris, as he was known to her, whowas then in his nineties. He would get the old sword "saying this is whatwe used to lick the British".
The Census of 1810 gives him as having a family of four or five children,thus revealing that he must have been married twice. About 1820 or 1825,he came to the SAGER settlement at Unionville. In 1830 he married thewidow of Dr. James Wright of Amity, Ohio. Thus he settled there havingthe occupation as a wagon-maker and cabinet-maker, the trade he followeduntil his death in 1850, during the Cholera Epidemic - place of burialunknown.
RESIDENT:- A native of Pennsylvania, removed to Loudoun County, Virginiawith his parents and in later years moved to Jefferson County, Virginia(now West Virginia) came in 1820 or 1825 to the SAGER settlement in UnionCounty, Ohio. He remarried residing in Amity, Madison County, Ohio.
NOTES: "John Sager did not accompany his father and family to UnionCounty, Ohio in 1805, but he went to Jefferson County, Virginia (now WestVirginia) where he enlisted as a Wagon-master in the War of 1812 andlater became an officer in the United States Army. His sword is somewhere in the vicinity of Unionville, Ohio.
"In 1820 he arrived at Sager's at Unionville, Union County, and afterwardhe married in 1830 settling at Amity, Ohio, Madison County, Ohio.
"He had four or more children by his first marriage and five children byhis second; he was a wagon-maker and cabinetmaker all his life. Hisfather Doctor John George Sager served in the American Revolution as aprivate under two enlistments. First as a private in Captain Miller'scompany, Colonel Robert McGraw, Fifth Pennsylvania, Regiment. ColonialLines, January 3,
1776 to January 8,1777. He was taken prisoner at the battle ofGermantown, Pennsylvania, November 16, 1776 and sent to a Prison Camp atNew York City and was later paroled.
"His second enlistment was as a private in Captain Samuel Rogers Company,5th Battalion Cumberland County Militia, 6th Class. He has no war recordas a physician or surgeon.
"In 1779, he migrated to Lovettsville, Loudoun County, Virginia, wherethe rest of his children were born. In 1805 he migrated to Union County,Ohio with eight of his children, seven sons and one daughter to wit:George, Christian, Frederick, Henry, Jacob, Samuel, Abraham and Barbara.
"They were the largest pioneer family in Union County, Ohio. Later on wehope to publish the complete family tree of this pioneer family.
"His father, Doctor John George Sager, founder of the family in America,came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1737, on Ye good old shipTownsend and settled in Lawrence County, Penn.
"He was a student of great learning, and the Sager Family is of ancientSwiss origin dating back to 1402 at Bert.
"He was married by Reverend John Casper Stower, at Emmanuel LutheranChurch, Brickerville Warwick Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, toKLEOTER or CLOTIN, after his two children were born Doctor John GeorgeJr. and Elizabeth, he died leaving a Will of Record."
By Dr. Frank Gardner, Historian, Sons of American Revolution.
MILITARY SERVICE:- War of 1812, as to State troops, Regiment and Company,this is unknown at present; but I find on investigating from the warrecords of the State of Pennsylvania: There is a John Saeger among thelist of men who was drafted, mustered and equipped in the War of 1812.Page 553, series 6, Volume 7, Pennsylvania Archives.
Also the name JOHN SAGER appears under the command of Captain Jacob Solt,in active service, being the 8th Company of the 118 Regiment, September23, 1814, Series 6, Volume 9, Page 117, Pennsylvania Archives.
The State of Virginia, by their Attorney General, regrets that War playedhavoc with their war records to a great extent. I have in my possession,a picture, belonging to my Grand-mother Dominy, showing the Union troopsburning the Capitol, the City of Richmond, Virginia. It also shows theinhabitants and Confederate troops fleeing across the bridge over thePotomac River on the night of April 2, 1865.
RESIDENT:- Migrated with his parents from Pennsylvania to Virginia, butevidently did not come with the family to Ohio in 1805. Tradition wellsupports this fact that he was a resident of Jefferson County, Virginia,(now West Virginia,) and there served his country in the vicinity ofHarpers Ferry in the War of 1812, as a Teamster or Wagonmaster. Later hewas promoted to an officer. His sword is somewhere in the vicinity ofUnionville, because I have heard my mother talk about when she was a girlgoing with her mother to visit Uncle Chris, as he was known to her, whowas then in his nineties. He would get the old sword "saying this is whatwe used to lick the British".
The Census of 1810 gives him as having a family of four or five children,thus revealing that he must have been married twice. About 1820 or 1825,he came to the SAGER settlement at Unionville. In 1830 he married thewidow of Dr. James Wright of Amity, Ohio. Thus he settled there havingthe occupation as a wagon-maker and cabinet-maker, the trade he followeduntil his death in 1850, during the Cholera Epidemic - place of burialunknown.
RESIDENT:- A native of Pennsylvania, removed to Loudoun County, Virginiawith his parents and in later years moved to Jefferson County, Virginia(now West Virginia) came in 1820 or 1825 to the SAGER settlement in UnionCounty, Ohio. He remarried residing in Amity, Madison County, Ohio.
NOTES: "John Sager did not accompany his father and family to UnionCounty, Ohio in 1805, but he went to Jefferson County, Virginia (now WestVirginia) where he enlisted as a Wagon-master in the War of 1812 andlater became an officer in the United States Army. His sword is somewhere in the vicinity of Unionville, Ohio.
"In 1820 he arrived at Sager's at Unionville, Union County, and afterwardhe married in 1830 settling at Amity, Ohio, Madison County, Ohio.
"He had four or more children by his first marriage and five children byhis second; he was a wagon-maker and cabinetmaker all his life. Hisfather Doctor John George Sager served in the American Revolution as aprivate under two enlistments. First as a private in Captain Miller'scompany, Colonel Robert McGraw, Fifth Pennsylvania, Regiment. ColonialLines, January 3,
1776 to January 8,1777. He was taken prisoner at the battle ofGermantown, Pennsylvania, November 16, 1776 and sent to a Prison Camp atNew York City and was later paroled.
"His second enlistment was as a private in Captain Samuel Rogers Company,5th Battalion Cumberland County Militia, 6th Class. He has no war recordas a physician or surgeon.
"In 1779, he migrated to Lovettsville, Loudoun County, Virginia, wherethe rest of his children were born. In 1805 he migrated to Union County,Ohio with eight of his children, seven sons and one daughter to wit:George, Christian, Frederick, Henry, Jacob, Samuel, Abraham and Barbara.
"They were the largest pioneer family in Union County, Ohio. Later on wehope to publish the complete family tree of this pioneer family.
"His father, Doctor John George Sager, founder of the family in America,came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1737, on Ye good old shipTownsend and settled in Lawrence County, Penn.
"He was a student of great learning, and the Sager Family is of ancientSwiss origin dating back to 1402 at Bert.
"He was married by Reverend John Casper Stower, at Emmanuel LutheranChurch, Brickerville Warwick Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, toKLEOTER or CLOTIN, after his two children were born Doctor John GeorgeJr. and Elizabeth, he died leaving a Will of Record."
By Dr. Frank Gardner, Historian, Sons of American Revolution.