Ohio Family Group Sheet for the George SAGER Family
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<br>Submitted by: John Burnett
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<br>Husband: George SAGER
<br>Birthdate: 19 January 1744
<br>Birthplace: Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
<br>Death date: 1824
<br>Place of death: Union Co., Ohio
<br>Burial: Sager Farm, Union Co., Ohio
<br>Father: Johan George SAGER
<br>Mother: Anna Maria CLOTIN
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<br>Marriage date: Circa 1767
<br>Marriage place: Pennsylvania
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<br>Wife: Maria Elizabeth SHULTZ
<br>aka: Maria SHEETS
<br>Birthdate: Circa 1749
<br>Birthplace: Pennsylvania
<br>Death date: 30 January 1833
<br>Place of death: Union Co., Ohio
<br>Burial: Sager Farm, Union Co., Ohio
<br>Father: Unknown SHULTZ
<br>Mother: Unknown
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<br>CHILDREN
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<br>Child No. 1: John SAGER
<br>Sex: Male
<br>Birthdate: 20 January 1768
<br>Birthplace: Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
<br>Death date: 18 January 1850
<br>Place of death: Madison Co., Ohio
<br>Burial: Ohio
<br>Marriage date: 1st 14 Oct. 1789, 2nd 15 March 1830
<br>Marriage place: 1st. Virginia, 2nd Ohio
<br>Spouse's name: 1st Eve CRUMBECKER, 2nd Frederica M. BOGAN WRIGHT
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<br>Child No. 2: Christian SAGER
<br>Sex: Male
<br>Birthdate: 22 September 1769
<br>Birthplace: Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
<br>Death date: 18 January 1866
<br>Place of death: Union Co., Ohio
<br>Burial: Old Darby Cemetery, Unionville Center, Union Co., Ohio
<br>Marriage date: 1st--03 May 1800, 2nd--9 November 1835, 3rd--4 March 1847
<br>Marriage place: 1st--Virginia, 2nd & 3rd--Ohio
<br>Spouse's name: 1st. Maria Elizabeth SHOVER, 2nd--Elizabeth RUPELL, 3rd--Rebecca DONLEY
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<br>Child No. 3: George SAGER, Jr.
<br>Sex: Male
<br>Birthdate: 1771
<br>Birthplace: Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
<br>Death date: 26 March 1838
<br>Place of death: Union Co., Ohio
<br>Burial: Ohio
<br>Marriage date: 1838
<br>Marriage place: Ohio
<br>Spouse's name: Christina FIRESTONE
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<br>Child No. 4: Elizabeth SAGER
<br>Sex: Female
<br>Birthdate: 3 February 1773
<br>Birthplace: Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
<br>Death date: July 1865
<br>Place of death: Ohio
<br>Burial: Ohio
<br>Marriage date: 22 October 1796
<br>Marriage place: Virginia
<br>Spouse's name: Moses BARTHOLOMEW
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<br>Child No. 5: Frederick SAGER
<br>Sex: Male
<br>Birthdate: 29 March 1774
<br>Birthplace: Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
<br>Death date: 31 August 1852
<br>Place of death: Kalamazoo Co., Michigan
<br>Burial: Glisson Cemetery, Climax, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan
<br>Marriage date: 4 November 1814
<br>Marriage place: Ohio
<br>Spouse's name: Hannah HARRISON
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<br>Child No. 6: Samuel SAGER
<br>Sex: Male
<br>Birthdate: 6 June 1778
<br>Birthplace: Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania
<br>Death date: 12 August 1856
<br>Place of death: Union Co., Ohio
<br>Burial: Mitchell Cemetery, Union Co., Ohio
<br>Marriage date: Circa 1808
<br>Marriage place: Ohio?
<br>Spouse's name: Elizabeth SANDBOWER
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<br>Child No. 7: Jacob SAGER
<br>Sex: Male
<br>Birthdate: 13 January 1781
<br>Birthplace: Loudoun Co., Virginia
<br>Death date: 24 April 1847
<br>Place of death: Carroll Co., Indiana
<br>Burial: Indiana
<br>Marriage date: 18 August 1804
<br>Marriage place: Virginia
<br>Spouse's name: Susannah GARMONG
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<br>Child No. 8: Barbara SAGER
<br>Sex: Female
<br>Birthdate: 12 February 1783
<br>Birthplace: Loudown Co., Virginia
<br>Death date: 12 October 1846
<br>Place of death: Union Co., Ohio
<br>Burial: Ohio
<br>Marriage date: 12 March 1811
<br>Marriage place: Ohio
<br>Spouse's name: James MARQUIS
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<br>Child No. 9: James Henry SAGER
<br>Sex: Male
<br>Birthdate: 2 April 1785
<br>Birthplace: Loudoun Co., Virginia
<br>Death date: 22 September 1832
<br>Place of death: Union Co., Ohio
<br>Burial: Union Co., Ohio
<br>Marriage date: 22 September 1807
<br>Marriage place: Ohio
<br>Spouse's name: Levina HAINES
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<br>Child No. 10: Abraham SAGER
<br>Sex: Male
<br>Birthdate: 1787
<br>Birthplace: Loudoun Co., Virginia
<br>Death date: Before 1870
<br>Place of death: Ohio?
<br>Burial: Ohio?
<br>Marriage date: Never Married
<br>Marriage place:
<br>Spouse's name: None
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<br>Documentation:
<br>* Research of John Burnett of Kingsville, Texas and Clyde Sager.
<br>* From Newton book: MILITARY SERVICE:- In the Fifth Pennsylvania Battalion, Colonel Robert McGraw, Commanding,
January 3, 1776.
<br>January 3, 1777, The Muster Roll of Captain John Miller's Company. January 5, 1776, gives George Sager, Private. At
the battle of Germantown was taken prisoner November 16, 1776, sent to prison camp at New York City, and was later paroled. VOLUME TWO, Page 172, PENNSYLVANIA
ARCHIVES.
<br>* SECOND ENLISTMENT - In the Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Militia in the year 1779, in Captain Samuel Roger's
Company, the Eight Battalion Cumberland County Militia, Class Sixth, gives George Sager, private. VOLUME VI, Page 541,
FIFTH SERIES.
<br>* PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES CHILDREN:- To this union ten children were born, eight sons and two daughters. It appears
that one son and one daughter did not come to Ohio when the family did. As shown by the records of Union County, Ohio,
seven sons and one daughter came, namely: George, Christian, Frederick, Jacob, Henry, Samuel, Abraham, and Barbara. We
have no records to show that they died in Virginia, but it does reveal that after the War of 1812, they did join the
SAGER settlement between 1820 and 1825. RESIDENT:- Rapoh Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. After the death of
his his father and one enlistment in the Revolutionary War, he settled in Anthrim Township, Cumberland County,
Pennsylvania, where they resided until after 1779. It was in Pennsylvania troops that he gave service to his country as
a private, as there is nothing shown that he gave service as a physician or surgeon, from my search of the Archives on
physicians serving as such. From the above place mentioned the family migrated to Lovettsville, Loudoun County,
Virginia, where the last of the children were born, and there remaining until the year 1805 when the family removed to
and settled in the territory now comprising Union County, Ohio, that being before the county was established, at that
date the township being known as the North-west Quarter Township of Franklin County, Ohio. Here the family permanently
settled and became very large and influential, the exact date of the settlement of the SAGER'S is not known, but was
about 1805. This family was not only one of the earliest but probably the largest in the vicinity. The first mill of any
importance in Union County was a water mill which was built by Frederick Sager, in what is now Jerome township. This
mill stood on the north bank of Big Darby Creek, about a mile above (Pleasant Valley) now Plain City, Ohio. A short
race-way was constructed to convey the water to the mill to propel the machinery which was by a water wheel. On "this
wheel", the direct action of water was applied to the bottom, known in those days as the Under Shot-wheel. The stone
used by SAGER, he manufactured from a boulder found in the neighborhood. He ground everything that was brought for
flour, - corn, wheat, rye, buckwheat and etc. But corn was the main crop of these pioneers, for upon it their dependence
was placed for bread stuff. Distilleries abounded in all settlements where large quantities of grain were raised. To
them, a bushel of corn was the price paid for a gallon of whiskey. One of the earliest distilleries in the county was
owned and operated by Jacob Sager, about one and a half miles west of (Pleasant Valley) now Plain City. The whiskey
manufactured was considered by all the genuine article. The records have shown that the family is of German descent. He
was a pioneer physician of the early times and was widely and favorably known to all. He raised his family up to man and
woman hood. Some of his sons were married, within a few years after they arrived in the new settlement. The cabins of
the Sager's dotted the valley of Big Darby Creek in both Darby and Jerome township, Union County, and occupied some of
the best farming land in these townships. Although a large part of the family settled in Darby township, Henry,
Frederick, and Abraham lived in Jerome township. From the military records of Union County it shows that the Sager
family was well represented in the War of 1812, by the following: The first military company organized in this county
was recruited during the year 1813. Strange as it may seem, very little can be learned of the members of this Company,
although recruited from the old families such as Robinson, Kents, Mitchells, Ewings, Sagers and others. After diligent
research among the records, the following named citizens are known positively to have served as members of this Company
to wit: James A. Curry, Captain; Samuel Mitchell, 1st Lieutenant; Adam Shover, 2nd Lieutenant; Privates: George Sager,
Christian Sager, Abe Sager, David Mitchell, Andrew Noteman, James Buck, Calvin Carey, and William Taylor. FIRST REGIMENT
LIGHT HORSE DRAGONS. The farm upon which they first settled was purchased in 1806 from Lyon Starling, in Survey 3272,
about one half mile south of Unionville. Until they had erected their cabins, the family resided with James Robinson,
across the creek. I also found that their political affiliation of that day was Jackson Democrats. The sons and
daughters married and settled in various sections of the state and also in other states.
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