Alice Gage - b c1868 - Texas
I am seeking proof of the parents of Alice (Allice) Gage, who appears as a one-year-old girl in the household of David C Shannon on the 1870 Census, Oakville PO, Live Oak County, Texas.She is still with the Shannons in 1880, in Travis County, where she is identified as a granddaughter, aged 12 years.
Also in 1870 Live Oak County, a man named Hiram C Gage is shown living alone in his own household at Oakville. He is shown to be the Post Master at Oakville. According to information on Rootsweb, Hiram was appointed to this position 14 December 1868, and a new postmaster was appointed 23 March 1871.I believe this Hiram may be the brother of Thomas Gage who married Barbary M Bogard in 1861 in Fayette County, Texas.
Barbary M Bogard's sister is Mary E Bogard, who married John T Shannon in 1865, in Fayette County.John T. Shannon is the son of David C. Shannon above.The father of Barbary and Mary, John Bogard, had died c 1850, and the mother Elizabeth had remarried Joseph T. Burleson - the Burleson name being another connection to the Gages, it seems.
It is known that David Shannon moved his family "east" from Live Oak County during the Civil War, and that he was back in Live Oak County by 1869.Because John T. Shannon was said to be "of Fayette County" at the time of his marriage to Mary Bogard, I believe David Shannon's family may have spent the war years in Fayette County, where one of David's two daughters may have met and married Hiram.
Is it possible that Hiram C. Gage is the father of Alice?Which of David C Shannon's daughters (Laura/Louisa or Mary C) is the mother?Did she die at Alice's birth, or afterward?What happened to Hiram after 1870?Did he die in 1871 (necessitating the naming of a new post master) or did he just move on?
Thanks.
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Marcy Porter 8/26/03