MICHAEL SAGER

    The records of the Sager family go to show them to be of German descent.  The grandparents, George and Elizabeth (Sheets) Sager, were natives of Loudoun County, Va., and settled on the homestead in Darby Township, near Unionville, in 1806.  He was a pioneer physician of the early times, and was widely and favorably known.  He raised a family of ten children, eight sons and two daughters.  The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this volume, was born on the homestead farm in 1817.  His parents, Samuel and Elizabeth (Sandbower) Sager, were both natives of Virginia.  Of the children born to this union, there are living, viz., Ann, wife of J. M. Andrews; Michael, and Sarah, wife of Gregory Hawley.  Mr. Sager was married in 1840 to Miss Mariet, daughter of Squire Deland, and a native of Vermont.  This union has produced five children, but one of whom survives, viz., Harriet D., wife of W. F. H. Pennington, who resides on the homestead farm, at this time consisting of 200 acres.  Two sons, George M. and Edwin, gave their Service and their lives to their country's flag, in the ranks of the Union army during the late rebellion.  George M. enlisted in the three-years call, August 11, 1861, in Company D, Fortieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and had nearly served his time when, in an engagement near Kenesaw Mountain Ga., he was shot through the right lung and shoulder-blade, and instantly killed. Edwin enlisted August 16, 1862, in Company I. , One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. and was shot through the right lung on the field of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863.  He so far recovered as to rejoin the command, and received a fatal shot at Kenesaw Mountain, from which he died.  They were both buried on the field of battle, but afterward recovered and conveyed to their birthplace for interment.  Mr. Sager is a descendant of one of Union's earliest settled families, and numbers among those of the oldest born pioneers.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is highly esteemed by all who know him.