Asa Sagers Timeline (1859-1932)

Date: 1859 to 1932
Location: United States
Surname/tag: Sagers

Timeline of Asa Sagers that is on his Family Search profile under memories https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/MBVD-LBL memories

Asa Sagers (1859-1932) – Son of Lucy Marilla Wheaton Sagers and William Henry Harrison Sagers

1859-Feb 8 – Asa Sagers was born at Tooele, Utah Territory. He was the third child and second son of Lucy Wheaton Sagers and William Henry Harrison Sagers.

At that time, W.H.H. Sagers was also married to Lucy’s sister, Ruth Adelia Wheaton Sagers.

W.H.H. Sagers was sealed to both Lucy and Ruth on June 10, 1851 in the Endowment House after they reached Utah on October 13, 1850.

In addition, Harrison married Marion Browning Smith eight months before Asa’s birth on 5 June 1858.

“Relatives who remember Asa called him “Acey.” They say he was short and slender, and had a little moustache. He had an exceptionally good sense of humor, and really liked children. He was very talkative, and friendly.” [The Sagers Clan: William Henry Harrison Sagers and his descendants with Shields, Smith, Martin and other related lines by Ella Sagers Swanson, Tucson, Arizona, 1980, page 427 - print edition]

1860-Feb 16 – Anna Sagers born - - Census and birth/marriage records listing a location state that Anna Sagers was born in California.

The 1880 census (Batavia, Genesee, NY) states that she was born in Utah Territory is most likely correct since her mother was living in Tooele, Utah Territory in August 1860.

[Source: Michigan death certificate: Father W. H. Sager, birth location unknown, mother Lucy Wheaton, born NY, 1880 census http://www.ancestry.com] 1860 census Tooele, Tooele, Utah (30 August 1860)

All three of Lucy Wheaton Sagers children (William O. 10, Diana 4, and Asa 2) are living with Harrison Sagers and wives Ruth Wheaton Sagers (children John H. 9, Don Carlos 7, and Lucinda 3) and Marion Smith Sagers on the 1860 census.

Lucinda A Wheaton [Sagers] (age 27, born in New York) is listed as a domestic in the household of John Rowberry. Page 315, Line 3

1862-Oct – Asa’s brother, William Orson Sagers (age 12) died and he was buried in the Tooele Pioneer Cemetery. His remains were moved to the new Tooele City Cemetery in 1871. 1863 – Sometime after 11 March 1863 (when W.H.H. Sagers was summoned as a grand juror in the Third Judicial District Court for Utah), he moved to Fountain Green, San Pete County, Utah with wives Ruth and Marion Sagers. Wife Lucy apparently stayed in Tooele as their daughter Diana Sagers was baptized in Tooele on December 3, 1864. It is not known if Asa was living with his father in Fountain Green or his mother in Tooele at that time.

1865 – In the summer of 1865 W.H.H. Sagers’ wife Marion returned to Tooele, but Harrison and wife Ruth remained in San Pete county where Harrison helped with the security of the church members there. The Black Hawk War was in progress and there were Indian attacks on the settlers in San Pete County. The settlers were instructed to build a fort at Moroni to protect themselves.

1865-Fall – Asa’s mother, Lucy Wheaton Sagers was married to James Monroe Gollaher in the fall of 1865. "[Lucy Wheaton Sagers was] arrested 30 Oct 1865 and charged with murder and ‘lewd and lascivious cohabitation’ with James M. Gollaher. Lucy pleaded not guilty to the murder charge and the jury rendered a not guilty verdict. Her attorney filed a certificate showing she married Gollaher in the fall of 1865. Her defense attorney was Lysander Gee (widower of Wm H. H. Sagers’ younger sister, Amanda Sagers)." [Tooele County Utah Probate Court records, Nov 14-18, 1865]

1866-Sep 20 – Asa’s mother Lucy gave birth to a daughter in California, Josephine Victoria Gollaher

1868 – Asa’s father, W.H.H. Sagers returned to Tooele where two of his children by wife Ruth Wheaton, Lucinda and Ruth Sagers, were baptized on 18 April 1868.

1870-Jul 30 - census Liberty, Rich, Utah Asa Sagers is living with his half-brother John H. Sagers and wife Olive Amelia Hale Sagers

1871-Mar 12 – Asa’s step-mother/aunt Ruth Adelia Wheaton Sagers died and was buried in Tooele.

1874-Mar 5 – Harrison Sagers last remaining wife, Marion Smith Sagers, divorced W.H.H. Sagers, taking her 5 children with her, leaving Harrison with several children under the age of 10 by wife Ruth Wheaton Sagers.

1878 - William Henry Harrison Sagers married Elizabeth Mary Casto at Provo, Utah. Elizabeth was previously married to Henry Madison Russell and had four children by Russell.

1879-Mar 29 – Asa’s mother Lucy Gollaher married her 3rd husband, George J. King in Batavia, Genesee, New York

1879-Sep 15 marriage to Eliza Ellen Devitt, Bingham county, Idaho [Idaho, Select Marriages, 1878-1899, http://www.ancestry.com] “Harrison took with him into Idaho his remaining children by wife Ruth Adelia Wheaton, and also his son Asa Sagers by his former wife Lucy Marilla Wheaton. . . The son Asa Sagers was married September 15, 1879 to Eliza Ellen Derivett, and both the bride and groom gave their residence as Gentile Valley, Soda Springs area, Oneida County territory (Early Marriages in Southern Idaho, Oneida County, Book A, page 18.) Asa was 21 years old at the time. (In trying to find more about Asa and Eliza Ellen, I did not locate any families in the Soda Springs area at that time by the name of Derivett, as shown above. However, there were some with the name Derricott. A re-check of the microfilm of the early marriages in southern Idaho reveals that the information on it is not the original record, but was copied in longhand into an ordinary notebook by someone, and this transcription is what is contained on the microfilm. This also appears in typed form in a booklet in the genealogical library at Salt Lake City. However, I am wondering if the person who copied the original record may have misinterpreted the spelling of Asa’s wife’s name, and wrote it as Derivett when it should actually have been Dericott. This possibility was not discovered until almost press time [1980] – too late to verify it with the county clerk’s office in Blackfoot.” [The Sagers Clan: William Henry Harrison Sagers and his descendants with Shields, Smith, Martin and other related lines by Ella Sagers Swanson, Tucson, Arizona, 1980, page 170-171 - print edition] 1880 census Portneuf, Oneida, Idaho (22 June 1880) Asa Sagers and wife “Lucy” are living next to brothers Don [Don Carlos] and Henry [William Henry] Sagers, and father Wm H. Sagers. His wife’s name Lucy is almost certainly an error since Asa married Eliza just six months earlier and had four children with her before their separation in New York state and subsequent divorce [after 1892]. “On this 1880 census, Harrison’s son John Henry Sagers is shown living next door to him, with a wife and three children; then another son Don Carlos Sagers with a wife and two children; then the son Asa Sagers and his wife. The names and ages of the children and wives are at great variance with family and church records, and are almost entirely inaccurate. It appears that one person may have tried to provide all the information for all the families, and really didn’t know the facts.” [The Sagers Clan: William Henry Harrison Sagers and his descendants with Shields, Smith, Martin and other related lines by Ella Sagers Swanson, Tucson, Arizona, 1980, page 172 - print edition] In a letter sent to family members after the publication of The Sagers Clan in 1980, Ella Sagers Swanson states, “You will be interested to know I have found new and complete information concerning the last wife and children of our ancestor, William Henry Harrison Sagers, that in his Will he gave his wife’s name as Elizabeth, and his four children as Ida, Ada, Eugene C. and Alfred. . . Another thing finding this new information does is prove that the 1880 census of Idaho is wrong, as I stated in my book. In 1880 Harrison’s only wife was Elizabeth, - - NOT Martha as shown in the census. He never had a wife Martha at all, at any time!” [Typewritten letter from Ella Sagers Swanson, undated but sent after publication of The Sagers Clan in 1980. Title, “A New Discovery”, it is an addendum to The Sagers Clan book, Chapter 36, page 176] – Document Attached Asa Sagers and wife Eliza Ellen Sagers may have lived in Montana before moving to New York. Some census records for the children indicate that one or more may have been born in Montana.

1891 Rochester N.Y. City Directory pg 510 – Sagers, Asa laborer, boards 142 West Main [son of Lucy M. King who is living at 10 Edgewood pk, Rochester NY with her 3rd husband George J. King and daughter Josephine Victoria Gollaher, born in 1866 after she divorced Wm H.H. Sagers]

1892 New York State census, Rochester Ward 16, ED 3, Monroe, New York (16 February 1892), page 4 Asa Sagers, male, age 31, born U.S., Citizen, occupation coachman 1892 New York State census, Rochester Ward 3, ED 03, Monroe, NY (16 Feb 1892), page 11 Children of Asa Sagers and Eliza Ellen Devitt Sagers (Ross 12, William 9, Lucy 10, Nellie 4) are living in the “Rochester Orphan Assylum”

1897-June 25 - #122. Name of convict Asa Sagers. County Erie. Crime Disorderly person. Court police. Judge King. Date of Sentence 25 Jun 1897. Received at prison 25 Jun 1897. Remarks 300.00 bond be dischg'd by law [New York, Governor's Registers of Commitments to Prisons, 1842-1908. Erie County Prison, Erie, New York. Volume 22. http://www.ancestry.com]

1897-July 29 (Buffalo, Erie, New York) “Asa Sagers, formerly a street car conductor on the Genesee street line in this city, is in trouble. Two wives have sworn vengeance on him, and the police will prosecute him on a charge of bigamy. About two months ago Sagers was in Police Court on a charge of non-support, preferred by the second wife, who then thought she was the whole thing. Sagers was ordered to give a $300 bond, or go to the Penitentiary. He could not give the bond, so he went down. He had not been there more than a week before the woman became lonely and penitent and brought about his release. He showed his ingratitude, however, by again leaving his wife. A few days ago, a woman called on the second wife at 423 Elm street, stating that she had read in a newspaper of Mr. Sagers’ imprisonment, and had come from Medina to declare herself the first wife of Asa Sagers. He had deserted her, she said, and left her alone to support four children. The alleged first wife produced her marriage certificate to prove her assertion to the second wife, who is the mother of two children by Sagers, and the two wronged women put their heads together to wreak vengeance on Sagers. Yesterday morning, the second wife, who is a pretty girl not more than 30 years old, appeared in Police Court, represented by an attorney, and asked for a warrant charging Asa Sagers with bigamy. The warrant was issued and the police at the Genesee Street Station began looking for the former street car conductor. Mrs. Sagers No. 2 said that she did not know where Sagers was. The warrant for Sagers was turned over to Detective Sergeant Sullivan for service, and he arrested his man at an early hour this morning. It seems that after his release from the Penitentiary Sagers secured his old position as street car conductor and Detective Sullivan found him at the car barns on Jefferson street.” [Buffalo Evening News, Buffalo, Erie, New York, Thursday, July 29, 1897. http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html]

1897-July 31 “Asa Sagers, the Genesee street car conductor, who was arrested on Wednesday, charged with bigamy, was arraigned in Police Court this morning. He pleaded not guilty, and the proof of the prosecution was submitted on the examination. Elizabeth Sagers, who claims she is Sagers’ first wife, was sworn. She said that she ran away from home to marry Sagers in September, 1879. The ceremony was performed by a Justice of the Peace at Gentile Valley, Idaho. They moved East, and lived at Rochester for a while where Sagers abandoned her. He thought she had gone West, but found out he was mistaken, she said. Sagers claims that the man who married them was not a justice of the Peace and therefore the marriage is not legal. He also alleges that Mrs. Sagers No. 1 left him. He offered no further evidence after Elizabeth was sworn, but waived examination to appear before the grand jury. Helen Krauz, who lives in this city and also claims to be married to Sagers, was in court this morning. Sagers attorney stated that the marriage to the Kranz girl was not denied by Sagers, but he will deny that he is married to the Western woman.” [Buffalo Evening News, Buffalo, Erie, New York, Saturday, July 31, 1897, pg 7. http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html]

1898-June 23 “Mrs. Sagers gets alimony. Helen Sagers has brought an action in the Supreme Court against Asa Sagers for a divorce. Yesterday Judge Titus made an order, allowing Mrs. Sagers $25 counsel fees, and $4 a week in alimony, pending the determination of the action.” [Buffalo Evening News, Buffalo, Erie, New York, Thursday, June 23, 1898, pg 5, http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html]

1898-November 17 “Helen Kranz Now. Mrs. Asa Sagers No. 2 is Helen Kranz once more. She lives at No. 127 Spruce Street, this city. Under the name of Helen Kranz she married Asa Sagers in 1894. She lived with him and now has two children. Some months ago she heard that her husband, who is now in Detroit, had been arrested on a charge of bigamy. Investigations convinced her that he had a former wife in Detroit. She at once applied for the annulment of her marriage. Proofs were produced that Sagers had married Eliza Devitt in 1879. Justice Titus in the Equity Term yesterday granted the second wife’s petition.” [The Buffalo Express, Buffalo, Erie, New York, Thursday Morning, November 17, 1898. http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html]

1897 Buffalo New York City Directory pg 937 – Sagers Asa, B. ry. Co. h 19 Rohr

1898 Buffalo New York City Directory pg 1097 – Sagers Asa, Buff Traction Co. h 317 Rohr

1899 Detroit Michigan City Directory pg 1306 – Sagers Asa, galvanizer, h 652 24th

1900 Detroit Michigan City Directory pg 1362 – Sagers Asa, galvanizer, h 652 24th [1] 1900 census 428 Twenty Third Street, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, (13 June 1900). Boarder Asa Sagers (39, born Feb 1861, single, born California, parents born NY, metal worker (living with John Louis family) 1900 census 652 Twenty Fourth Street, Detroit City, Wayne, Michigan (5 June 1900). Rose Roberts (35, born Aug 1864, divorced, 2 children 2 living, born England, housekeeper, immigrated 1883, in US 17 years), son Charles E. Roberts (15, born Mar 1885 Canada, messenger boy), daughter Patrice Roberts (13, born Feb 1887 Canada, at school) 1900 census Buffalo Ward 6, Erie, New York (5 June 1900) [Helen Sagers (24, divorced, 2 children 2 living, born Jun 1876 Germany, immigration 1890), daughter Ruth Sagers (6, born Jun 1894, born NY)]

1900-December 29 “Buffalo Woman Seeking Child. Mrs. Helen Sagers Goes to Detroit to Compel Her Former Husband to Disgorge. DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 21 – Attorney E.S. Clarkson filed a petition yesterday asking that a writ of habeas corpus be directed against Asa Sagers and Rose Roberts of this city. The petitioner, Helen Sagers of Buffalo, declares that the parties mentioned are unlawfully restrainer her daughter Pearl, 5 years old, at some place in or near Detroit. The petition states that Asa Sagers was formerly the husband of the petitioner, but that she obtained a divorce in Erie county, N.Y., Nov. 16, 1898. Mrs. Sagers was taken seriously ill last summer, and at that time Asa asked for the privilege of caring for the girl during this illness. The request was complied with, but after she was well again Mrs. Sagers declares she asked for the return of her daughter, but was refused. Judge Donovan granted the petition and service was had on the parties yesterday afternoon.” [Buffalo Evening News, Buffalo, Erie, New York, Saturday, December 29, 1900, page 1. http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html]

1900-30 December “RECOVERED HER CHILD. Mrs. Helen Sagers of Buffalo secured possession yesterday by writ of habeas corpus of her 5-year-old daughter Pearl from her divorced husband, Asa Sagers, of Detroit. Mrs. Sagers surrendered the child temporarily two years ago, during sickness, but on recovery she demanded her return. Sagers refused, it is said, to give up the child, and the writ followed. Attorney E.S. Clarkson represented Mrs. Sagers” [The Buffalo Courier, Buffalo, Erie, New York, Sunday, December 30, 1900. http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html]

1902-18 September – Asa Sagers married Rose Rayner Roberts – Rose is the widow of Charles W. Roberts and is likely the Rose Roberts mentioned in the December 29th 1900 newspaper article. Asa and Rose were married 18 September 1902 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada (directly across the Detroit River from Detroit, Michigan) before moving to Missouri. Marriage date on page 537.

1903 Kansas City Missouri City Directory pg 1023 – Sagers Asa painter r 1620 Summit

1904 Kansas City Missouri City Directory pg 1049 – Sagers Asa painter r 1636 Washn

1905 Kansas City Missouri City Directory pg 1469 – Painters Asa 1640 Washn

1905 Kansas City Missouri City Directory pg 991 – Sagers Asa painter 1640 Washn [2]

1905 census Buffalo, Erie, New York (1 June 1905) [Helen K. Sagers (29, born Germany, in US 12 years, housework), daughter Ruth H. Sagers (10, born US, at school), daughter Pearl D. Sagers (9, born US, at school)

1910 census Strike Axe, Osage, Oklahoma (17 May 1910) – living next to half-brother Don Carlos sagers 18. Asa Sagers (48, md 7 years, born CA parents born CA, occupation labor), wife Rose Sagers (45, married 7 years, born England, immigrated 1889) Next residence – 19. Don Carlos Sagers (54, married 33 years, 8 children 6 living, born Utah father born OH mother born Marafens, labor on farm), wife Jane A. Sagers (47, married 33 years, 8 children 6 living, born Utah), daughter Florence (20, born UT), daughter Violet Sagers (17, born UT), son Don M. Sagers (13, born OK), son Dee B Sagers (13, born OK), daughter Eva Sagers (7, born OK)

1917 Salt Lake City Directory – pg 749 “In the spring of 1918, Asa and Rose made a visit to Idaho. They were on their way to California, but stopped in Oakley to visit with his half-brother, Adam Sagers, and half-sister, Mary Sagers Martin. When he saw the valley there, Asa exclaimed, ‘Why would anyone want to go to California when there is beautiful land like this!’ They settled in Oakley, and engaged in farming. Several years later they moved to Burley.” [The Sagers Clan: William Henry Harrison Sagers and his descendants with Shields, Smith, Martin and other related lines by Ella Sagers Swanson, Tucson, Arizona, 1980, page 427-428 - print edition] 1920 census Kenyon, Cassia, Idaho (24 Jan 1920) Asa Sagers (58, b UT, parents b NY, painter bldg), wife Rose Sagers (49, b England, immigrated 1880, naturalized 190?)

1930 census Burley City, Cassia, Idaho (5 April 1930) [Asa Sagers (69, age 1st marriage 18, b UT, father b Missouri, mother b Canada, painter), wife Rose Sagers (65, age 1st marriage 18, b England imm 1895, naturalized)] - - the Edward Sager next door is the son of John Sager & Sarah Jane Beckhorn - no known relationship]

1930 Twin Falls Idaho City Directory pg 239 – Sagers Asa (Rose) pntr h320 S Normal av

1932 Twin Falls Idaho City Directory pg 220 – Sagers Asa (Rose) painter h rear 320 S Normal av [3] Death Burley Cassia Idaho [Idaho Death Index 1890-1962, http://www.ancestry.com]

1942 Amarillo TX City Directory pg 362 – Sagers Rose (wid A) r 1218 Crockett

1947 Denver CO City Directory pg 1516 – Sagers Rose (wid Asa) r 1480 Grape

1948 Denver CO City Directory pg 959 – Sagers Rose (wid Asa) r1480 Grape

1949 – August 8 – Rose Sagers buried at the Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Denver, Colorado. Find A Grave memorial 131697467, http://www.findagrave.com

CHILDREN by Eliza Ellen Devitt or Derivett:

1. Ross Sagers (24 July 1880 – Oct 1972)
2. Lucy Ella Sagers Dean (Nov 1882 – 1943)
3. William Sagers (9 April 1883 – 1967)
4. Nellie Sagers Allen (8 January 1888 – Jan 1981)

CHILDREN by Helen A. Kranz:

1. Ruth Helen Sagers (June 1894-unknown)
2. Pearl D. Sagers (1896-unknown)

CHILDREN by Rose Rayner: None

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