El Meta Bond College of Oklahoma

The Sager Family

Many thanks to Cindy Line Schneider for contributing this picture of the Abraham Sager family. Anna (Ryman) Sager is Cindy's great-great grandmother, and Anna is also the mother of John Sager.

1. ABRAHAM SAGER was born December 12, 1818 in Shenandoah, Virginia, and died August 05, 1905 in Harrison, Champaign County, Ohio. He married ANNA RYMAN July 31, 1848 in Shenandoah, Virginia. She was born March 1827 in Virginia, and died 1912.  Both buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Pleasant Township, Logan County, Ohio.

Notes for ABRAHAM SAGER:

1850 Ohio Champaign County Concord Township Dist 17 September 14
144-145 SAGER, Abram, age 30, male, farmer, born VA
Anne, age 21, female, born VA
Sarah, age 1, female, born OH

1860 Ohio Champaign County Harrison Township PO Spring Hills June 21
412-412 SAGER, Abraham, age 39, male, farmer, 0-1350, born VA
Anna, age 30, female, born VA
Virginia, age 11, female, born OH
Mary E, age 9, female, born OH
Laura A, age 6, female, born OH
Etna J, age 4, female, born OH
Eliza A, age 9/12, female, born OH

1870 Ohio Champaign County Harrison Township PO Kingston August 12
90-92 SAGER, Abraham, age 52, male, white, farmer, 0-357, born VA
Anna, age 40, female, white, keeps house, born VA
Laura A, age 17, female, white, helps mother, born OH
Etna J, age 14, female, white, helps mother, born OH
Eliza A, age 10, female, white, at home, born OH
John A, age 3, male, white, at home, born OH

1880 Ohio Champaign County Harrison Township Dist 21 June 18
154-159 SAGER, Abram, white, male, age 61, married, day laborer,
born VA, father/mother born VA
Anna, white, female, age 51, wife, married, keeps house, born VA, father/mother born VA
John A, white, male, age 13, son, single, born OH, father/mother born VA
Anna B, white, female, age 10, daughter, single, born OH, father/mother born VA
Pearl, white, female, age 6, daughter, single, born OH, father/mother born VA

1900 Ohio Champaign County Harrison Township Dist 5 June 5-6
67-67 SAGER, Abraham, head, white, male, born Dec 1818, age 81,
married 56 years, born VA, father/mother born VA, gardner
Anna, wife, white, female, born March 1827, age 73, married 56 years,
10 children with 7 living, born VA, father/mother born VA
Pearl, daughter, white, female, born August 1873, age 26, single,
born OH, father/mother born VA, servant

Logan County, Ohio
Pleasant Township--Greenwood Cemetery
Sager, Abraham, 1818-1905 (husband of Anna Sager)

Notes for ANNA RYMAN:

Logan County, Ohio
Pleasant Township--Greenwood Cemetery
Sager, Anna, 1829-1912 (wife of Abraham Sager)

Children (8 found to date) of ABRAHAM SAGER and ANNA RYMAN are:

Sarah Virginia Sager, born about 1849, Harrison Champaign County, Ohio
Mary E. Sager, born about 1851, Harrison Champaign County, Ohio
Laura Ann Sager, born about 1853, Harrison, Champaign County, Ohio
Etna J. Sager, born about 1856, Harrison, Champaign County, Ohio
Eliza A. Sager, born about 1859,Harrison, Champaign County, Ohio

John Alba Sager, born December 1866, Harrison County, Ohio; died September 1929;
married META CHESTNUT, May 08, 1906, Oklahoma; Meta born September 1863,
North Carolina, died January 1948, Oklahoma.

Notes for JOHN ALBA SAGER:

1900 Iowa Buchanan County Washington Township Independence City Dist 53 June 2
Iowa Hospital For The Insane
SAGER, John A, employee, white, male, born Dec 1866, single, born Ohio,
father/mother born Virginia, attendant, can read/write and speak English

Burial Rose Hill Cemetery, Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma

http://www.okcemeteries.net/grady/rosehill/s/s1rosehill.htm
Photo of stone at link above
Rosehill Cemetery - Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma
SAGER, John Alba, 1866-Sep 1929 (burial 28 Sep)
(SS/W & H/O Meta (CHESTNUT) Sager, Block 12, Lot 8)

Anna G. Sager, born about 1870, Harrison, Champaign County, Ohio
Pearl Sager, born August 1873, Harrison, Champaign County, Ohio