Joseph Francis Sage

Brief Life History of Joseph Francis

When Joseph Francis Sage was born on 4 July 1893, in Casper, Natrona, Wyoming, United States, his father, Samuel Selah Sage, was 30 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Ginder, was 26. He married Grace Mildred Moffat on 19 June 1916, in Big Piney, Sublette, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Election District 13, Fremont, Wyoming, United States in 1920 and Election District 4, Sublette, Wyoming, United States in 1930. He died on 12 February 1987, in Pinedale, Fremont, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Pinedale Cemetery, Pinedale, Sublette, Wyoming, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Francis Sage
1893–1987
Grace Mildred Moffat
1898–1981
Marriage: 19 June 1916
Elmer Condon Sage
1917–1917
Eleanor Margueritte Sage
1918–2010
Samuel Addison Sage
1920–2012
Mildred Josephine Sage
1923–2013
Edna Fae Lorraine Sage
1924–1991

Sources (19)

  • Joseph Sage in household of Samuel Sage, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Joseph Frances Sage, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
  • Joe Sage, "Wyoming, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"

World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1897

Historical Boundaries 1897: Carbon, Wyoming, United States

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

Name Meaning

French and English (of Norman origin): nickname for a wise, learned man, from the Old French and Middle English adjective sage ‘wise, learned, sensible’, from Latin sagus ‘prophetic’, akin to sagax ‘sharp, perceptive’. Compare Desage and Lesage .

Irish (Meath): in some cases, a variant of Savage , via the Gaelicized form Sabhaois.

German: habitational name from a place near Oldenburg, so named from an old word, sege ‘sedge, reed’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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