Notes for Katherine Gage: [My 2nd Great Grandmother]
In 1880 She lists her father is from NY and her mother from Canada 1880 New York, Oneida, Paris; Roll 902 Book 1, Page 418a; line 6; June 17th Catherine 35F, wife, married, born NY,NY,Canada
Oct 2, 1956 family letter: "All I know about her is that she was a 'Gage' and died at the Paper Mills Crossing of a cancer in the stomach. She was not very old. Burial at Sauquoit Cemetery on the Gage lot"
There is a Paper Mills Corners in Herkimer County.
1850 U.S. Census • New York • Oneida • Paris Roll: M432_562 Page: 200, image 46 of 103; Sept. 11th, 1850 Baxter Gage, 72M Farmer $4000, Mass(?) Kirkland Gage, 31M Farmer, NY Mary 28F, Canada Mary 8F, NY, in school Catherine 7F, NY, in school William, 4M, NY Hannah, 3F, NY John, 25M, Mason, NY There is little reason to doubt that this is the right family. Exact name, same age, her mother is from Canada, father NY, and they are in Paris, where she will live 30 years later when married. This corroborates what the family letter says.
More About Katherine Gage: Burial: Unknown, Sauquoit Valley Cemetery, Paris, Oneida, NY; Gage Lot.
Children of Katherine Gage and Robert C. Orcutt are:
Katherine Gage (b. 1843, d. Bet. 1880 - 1900)
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