{"id":86845,"date":"2022-09-22T12:46:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=86845"},"modified":"2022-10-10T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T16:02:25","slug":"mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-26.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/em><\/strong> In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing on philanthropist Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage. Melissa is a genealogist who has a blog, AnceStory Archives<\/a>, and a Facebook group, New England Family Genealogy and History<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today I continue with my series \u201cMayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who\u201d with a focus on Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage (1828-1918), a descendant of Mayflower<\/em> passengers George Soule, Edward Doty, and Miles Standish.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Margaret Olivia Slocum. Courtesy of Adam D. Gibbons, Geneva, Illinois.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I came across this Mayflower<\/em> scion in a newspaper clip dated 1903 in the Worcester Daily Spy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Worcester Daily Spy (Worcester, Massachusetts), 21 May 1903, page 6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This article reported:<\/p>\n

Following a meeting and reception of the Society of the Mayflower Descendants at the Larchmont Yacht Club, the 250 Mayflower descendants went out to President Roosevelt\u2019s naval yacht Mayflower, anchored off the clubhouse, and Mrs. Russell Sage made a short speech to the sailors and petty officers. Leaning on the shining barrel of a rapid fire gun, Mrs. Sage said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI applaud you and all of the members of the navy. You are honored by being on this beautiful yacht, which, I understand, is the private dispatch boat of the President of the Unites States. My ancestors came over on the Mayflower, among them Captain Miles Standish. Our ancestors helped to make this country what it is and helped to make you the good, brave men that you should be. Again I congratulate you. May you always enjoy health and happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sailors applauded her vociferously. Then they gave three cheers and saluted her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A 1906 newspaper clip from the Watertown Daily Times<\/em> reveals more on Margaret and provides her marriage date to wealthy tycoon Russell Risley Sage, son of Elisha Sage and Prudence Risley.<\/p>\n

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Watertown Daily Times (Watertown, New York), 2 August 1906, page 9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This article reported:<\/p>\n

Mrs. Russell Sage is a descendant of Miles Standish. Her middle name, Olivia, was also that of her paternal [great] grandmother, Olivia Standish [wife of Stockbridge Josselyn]. It seems strange that a woman of Mrs. Sage\u2019s great wealth and interest in humanity has reached the age of 78 without ever having been abroad. Mrs. Sage was Miss Margaret Olivia Slocum. Her father, Joseph Slocum, was a merchant in Syracuse, N. Y., where she was born in 1828. She was educated in the Emma Willard School at Troy, then called the Troy Female Seminary. In her early life she was a school teacher, and that fact probably accounts in no small measure for her interest throughout her long and active career in young women. She was married at Watervliet, N. Y., on Nov. 24, 1869.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Photo: Hon. Joseph Slocum (1795-1863), son of William Brown Slocum and Olivia Josselyn; husband of Margaret Pierson Jermain; father of Margaret Olivia Slocum (Mrs. Russell Sage). Courtesy of Adam D. Gibbons, Geneva, Illinois.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lineage:<\/p>\n