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eFor til*Bendy Valiev AdToea^k Iij obxtuaey.jl I he death.T that venerable and well knnwivf , Juan, (il-i.V JOH.N POAGR. has been alren.lv an- ' .By^nced. A few items of hi, history and inn. . !■ s' nay l e of interest to tlie poblie.He ¥H bnrp in Angtwta cnnr;*r, Virginia. ]e-!-J eethbtr the 11th, 1775; Seven months Wore the famous B duration of fndepend«nee, being that'1 muct older, a-, he arcd to say, than the United flt;He earn* to Kentucky in 1779,eigh* \ ears after'' . b*r admUsiott a# a State, into the Union; that!'event haying oecnrred ,»n the 4th of February. ' lt;. 1(91. daring the Presidency of Washington.K The fi-et ytr.r be raised s-crop on a farm, after . wards fettled t..- hi, father, two miles above the j present town .if Ashland. This whole region was then Mason county, embrerii y the territory lvire sid stantiedly between the Licking, Big Sandy'an.] c Ohio riven Greenup Conn tv, so called from.* G» v. ChristnpW Greenup. ww not formed until ;■, tt,. Tear IbHJ.* In lfstl^ the sahject of this notice marrif 1* Ann Toazt' a distant relative. with whom he lived 1 happy for shout fifty yier«: the frnit of thrir mar-t nag. being ten child'- n. Hit wife is mid to l^ave, been the fourth ifhite child born in tm- territory of Kentucky. She was born at Harrod * Station,.I now TlarrOdsbnrg, w.nere the first log cabin in r K' ntiiehr was built, by Jams* Kernel, in 4774.fn 1H'£ Johr. punt. removed to a /arm three j * ti.ilea-belonr Ashland, the upper line of which is ] ;tbe eastern beunitsry gf the present county oft] t Greenup Here he spent the remainder of his!, t; days, having lived in on* spot fifty nine year, t e It is believed he was the ablest settler at lblt; .irr.c i!* of bis d»arh.in thie reg i o s of the Stat#.' When i . lie first eanr, ther» wcrv bnt eight white families ‘ tf in vrha; was Sr-t brow I. as Greeanp eeonty. whieh jl - r vereri three times the territory it at present does. | What ehang' S have been wrought in iso,- sial-y r , Kari! Hod I* ^Indiana wr* r-et thin found.—11 i; -Their | r vrsr hsd been thoroughly broken in this 1 ‘ region, after K.ntneky had suffered unheard off!l.i viiiiltiea, »ml drank e» ths blood of many of her I, j nob!* son., and daoght-r i, venring for'her flu-1|* waU known name of the dark anil bhudv ground. : i f Bears, however, aod . ’her wild animal- stHhtoaiu 1ted the fi res*,, and many were ibe huntv and ex ■ r oitic — , ia whieh our- ponrer tV-ben wore!,1 epgr.g-1 in time* early ’in es. Jv« doubt it was by j *u tb exi osnre aod hardships a* r« iundvp i in i 1 pioneer lif»Ah*t our friend aeijnireii additfo -.at I 1 tnngth ana power ol end Mr,*-.-- to his n.Muraffyj -v »oroe« n. [. ■ • - r,.-I, I laid the togedai.- r. |i.■ t . at the !-me of.*,.r jKevoiot.onartf war, rn taka an, T*rt in that r-.- rii-fe'-able and siicee-ifiil struggle, tint he generously ! c j responded re the .-sli for volunteer# in the iats war j . , with Great Britain. 1814-15. After the diea-trem A battle of the Kaisin. r' iriforeemtnta were needed [ j! vfrrGca. Harrison, and Kentcchy wj, called on to 11, : fiircish Sftirn hnr-lrtd iromtry. Old Gov. Isaac r . .-y , who had proved h. i valor and patriotism I■ j m various battles in the fiovolatinaary war. invit- j. ed volunteer# to meet h:m at Newport, promising 1 v i p. lead thrm ir j ,r.o n againet theenemy. Instead : • c-' fifteen hnndre i four thousand responded to the t » •i yall, and arr-rig them John Bongo. He was sip- j painted L' doiirl , .' a regiment., composed of trrcp.s I * ; i from the couJtiee of Kicbolm, Fleming, Mmwi.i* I lie w is an J to • nop. Those wre not the day* of •1 turrrukes and tAi!roads. Th'ir march for two j . ! hnndrrd miles, or flit;, was through a wild and] | unsettled country, slow, toilpoac and painful —j J •; Tblt; campaign was short nnd imiin-.rily sncecstfnl, i ( I terminal log in three month in the v;ctury of the j * i hfc*:,*. Proclxu wi« debated, ttud there, also. !i rave .eeumseh frii. Col. Pr-nge. at the head of j h hi, ngimcnt, displsyad lie »p;rii of the Une sol | » ■lirr, and afierward* a# a reci'gcilioB of his tide!- ' ity, received from ‘'.nr. Sh.-lby , the appr.iutment of I General of the ! ii;is, by which title he was'' henceforth universally known. It was in the hard .'ship'- of that campaign, he said, that laid the foundation of the disease which carried him to his I grave having suffered, meanwhile repeated and ' I ninth! stuck, of it.On returning to the bosom of his family. Gen.| Poage resumed tbs peaceful avocation of agrienl-i tiire, and so ecntinned the f|u'eland industrious 'j farmer, until his death As a mark of public■ confidence in his capacity and integrity, he miI frequently engaged in land surveys by appoint-.i ntof the courts, and he served a number of!- '-nr* a, ms :■ -irate in hit county. When that|. , i'-, in eonunoi) with almost ail other civil offices,, became tlfc’.ive by a change of the Constitution,. j he resisted the solicitation of his friends to become 1 r. candidate, nat approving of the new method.| And therein he showed eountltiem of judgement,| fcr what Legislative evil has befallen thin country j more dv iriiuental to its pence, purity and stability,! than the law which placed every office in lha im-j mediate gift of the people t; At the ago of titty three, Nov. 10, lb'29, Gen I Poage leoamc a member of the Bethf-sda now Ash laiuiI Presbytariae Church. It ishslieved toliavt been the only organised Chnreh in the neighborhood at Uial tiove, being entirely a country oongre- ■ a;lor, and composed chiefly of the various fnmi | lie# of Pongee, which settled the bottom extending | l from the mouth it ,- andy to a point opposite Iron j J I too. At the time above-mentioned, the first meet- |!j ing was held in the llrick (linroh, near the Acad j vmy, during the mini.vtry of the R. vN John Sfe- L Donald, At that meeting, in which Rev. Charles 1 ■! Philips, cod Rev. S. T. Ganison assisted, Gen. g, i Poage’* wife, and (1.1.-st dnughrer, besides himself. | became Biembsrs, All three now sleep the sleep of! n death. H«When the necessities of the eongrege.tfer. became D junh nt to re. p, I re * rytpovs! of tlo-ir house of wor !*hii i.to the ‘ wn, ,t wa- with »0iT great regtwf. thn't our venerable friend hade ndieit to the place where h* trusted he first found peso* with God, and where ho had enjoyed #o many precious sea 1 sons under the ministry of the word and the ordi-' nane»» for thirty years. Mone bat the old, per-l.fti », inn *ppwiats 'be sacrifice of feeling mar,* on such occasions, ami there is often too little can aiders!ion had towards the aged by the young anil ! vigorous in the which or* mqiiire/i fromtin e to time to a.l .ano tl»lt;*interoft# of sec^t j.Gt-n. r«ipo c ntitni.'fi an heml.K- folkiwor of 1 Chi :»t nmjl tbft'li—frr 33 years attending on ftll i i or ’ inane• * of relitrion with j^eat regularity end . ieonsranoy. and etriviog to |;*»t into frActiee itei.l i,-,; pivrcpte. Though hia reside*ce inive m:!*# fp.'in :»»e ‘finf’narv, »othiog ever k.^pt- liim |■ frem Church hot sickness or seme other ProviItinl li.'.-lisnce. Two weeks bef re in, death | 1 ' he was there punctual in his place, cheerful, linm- j J I,] aild i i ; w hat an example to th- yutit-h I hi, : part leu Inrlj u the mtn of this j »i'•■in.in-iiin iiuinv of whom are never found at thelI. - I,..' hen fhst,men repent nfur tieir SOth iiabits heconvc .1 ’ tiveil after that period,] Mid the heart is ant to settle down into confirmed I i skepticism or indifference. It is therefore matter' f„r ih - 'i1 -.-.•atitu'i-- i 0 I fhrt ha was pfoared to I *hr w our deceased hit-nd, nl such an ago, theerfl'e .if his wa v. and diavr him within the enclosure of the covenant. Eqonlly to he adored is that : inercy aod that power of God which faithfully k'-jWnim, for so many vears, in the path of right-5IICSH, r: . I brougbt liiro to a good old age full of j Uie fruits of righteousness and Christian ixtieri- Thuur'i ids years ware vo innltiptied heI ha I Inn a small proportion of the infirmities of j see. ’.Ii- nnt.urnl force wa, little abated, his ap-]« smiicc healthy and vigotvus, nn-i up to his last
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Catlettsburg Sandy Valley Advocate
Catlettsburg, Kentucky, US
Wed, Aug 28, 1861
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