Mrs. Sage was a lady of many charming attributes and a woman of whom her family was very proud. During her long life, she witnessed the great industrial development of the United States and, as a pioneer of Illinois, could talk interestingly of the many hardships and deprivations to which the early settlers were accustomed to meet in their every day life. Her early education was received in the south in the Catholic convent at Nazareth, Kentucky near Louisville, where she resided and where her father was engaged in business for a number of years. During her life here, she met of the great men of the South and was on familiar terms with them. She was personally acquainted with Henry Clay, whose fame as a statesman is well known.  Here she met with such men as Millard Fillmore and other notables who were friends of her father. She remembered well the administration of Andrew Jackson and could tell interestingly of the details which led up to the great financial crisis which occurred in that administration, and which ruined many men financially, among them her first husband, Washington Noel, then one of the foremost jewelers of Kentucky, whom she married at Louisville, early in life, after which they moved to Little Rock, Arkansas.  

Five children were born to them, but only one survives, Mrs. Jerome Bailey of this city.  After her first husband's death, she was again united in marriage to Dr. H. S. Latham of this county in 1852 and settled on the old Latham homestead in Malone Township. The children of this marriage survive: Mrs. George S. Nave of Chicago and miss Laura Latham of this city. Mr. Latham died in 1863.  In 1866, she was married to Norton Sage of Pekin, where they resided for twenty years. After Mr. Sage's death, she moved to Delavan where she has led a quiet life in the home on the east side where she died.   The home of Mrs. Sage's birth was Prescott, Canada.  She was born Feb. 12, 1818 and was the daughter of Benjamin Comens and Amelia Ransdell.

Her funeral took place Saturday at 2 o'clock from her late home, conducted by Rev. L. H. Coffman of the Baptist Church, assisted by a choir composed of Messrs, J. B. Foote and C. E. Varney and Misses Julia Sunderland and Bertha Stubbs.  A very touching funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Coffman, which was greatly appreciated by those who were acquainted with the deceased, as his remarks were very appropriate to her life.  Interment was in the Green Valley cemetery.  The pall bearers were Arthur Stubbs, Henry Cheney, J. W. Williams, John McDowell, and Bert Newman.

 Mrs. George S. Nave and son, Leon, of Chicago and Miss Anna Blenkiron of Pekin were present at the funeral.