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I'VE are requested to republish the following
article which appeared in THE FREE PRESS OF
June s, lS92.-Ed. F. P1
From he Christian Obserra.
As for me, this is my covenant with them,
saith the Lord My spirit that Is upon thee,
and my words which l have put in thy
mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth,
nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out OF
the mouth of thy seeds seed, saith the Lord,
from henceforth aud forever-Isaah SO; 81
A piece of family history presents strik-
ing ful6lment of this passage which may
prove encouraging to some who read it.
1t is stated in Mr. J. A. Waddell's Annals
of Augusta County, Virginia, that Robert
Poage, as one of the early settlers of that
county, appeared in 1740 before the court OF
Orange county, and claimed the Kings
bounty, i. G. fifty acres of land for himself
and each member of the family whom he
had imported into the country at his own
expense The family then consisted of his
wife aud nine children. A tenth was born
subsequently.
A spirit of earnest piety seems to have
pervaded the household, if we may judge
from an extract or two from the letters of
one of the children. Writing from Ken
lucky, July %, 1892, she says:
Though at a great distance, my children
are as near my heart as when they were all
present with me. l would be glad to hear
of old things done away, and all things be-
cone new with each of you. would ask
YOU, my dear children, What think you of
Christ? hope you have been particular,
all of you, to ratify your baptismal engage
ments by setting your seals that it is true
that you have received Christ as head, and
you the members of the mystical body. So
as We have received Christ, walk ye in him.
| could spend aud be spent upon the sub
iect, my dear children, but hope you will
improve the talents put into your hands,
knowing that upon the Lords return, which
may be shortly, he will call you to count
the improvement you have made. L hope
YOU will take a serious consideration of this
matter, as it is more than probable / may
not meet you until that day,-that tremen-
dous meeting, when, we will hear the
final sentence passed, ofjoyful bliss or end
less woe.
The next year she writes
In this country you may behold the rise
and progress of religion in the young and
rising generation, and read our SaviOrs
words that these things are hid from the
wise and prudent, and revealed to babes and
sucklings. Our teachers here are lively and
persevering, and the people warm and atten-
tive; aud l would to God, my son, your
souls happiness were as deeply impressed
on your heart as it is on mine-all my chill
dren's happiness; all day my children walk
before my sight and in my dreams | see
them every night.
l wish to mention the names of ministers,
ministers wives and missionaries, who have
sprung from this godly stock My enumer-
alton is partial, as l can follow the lines of
descent-and THAT not exhausLively-in the
case of only three of the children.
The eldest son of Robert Poage was John,
a son of whom was Rev. Thomas Poage, and
a daughter Elizabeth, the wife of DR.. Moses
Hoge; their sons were were DR. James Hoge,
of Columbus, Ohio, Samuel Davies Hoge,
and John Blair Hoge son of DR.. James
is Rev. Moses Hoge, Of Ohio 3 daughter,
Elizabeth, married DR.. Robert Nall, of Ala
bama, and their sons are Rev. Drs, James
and Robert Nall, and another daughter, Su-
sauna, married Rev. NJ. A. Sackett; Samuel
Davies Hoge's sons were Drs. Moses ID. and
William Hoge, and the latter's son is Rev.
Peyton Hoge, of North Carolina.
From Martha, a daughter of Robert
Poage, have come, through son, Robert,
Rev. John Woods, an Episcopal minister of
West Virginia; through another son, An
drew, Rev. Henry Woods, Of Washington,
Pa, whose daughter Margaret, is about
starting as a missionary for China, and Rev.
F. NJ. Woods through another son, Archi-
bald. Rev. Alfred PAUL, and his son Rev
George PAUL, of New Jersey, Rev Edgar
Woods, and his sons. Henry and Edgar,
missionaries in China. and third, James,
preparing for the same field through
daughter, Elizabeth Cloyd, Rev Messrs
Alexander McEwen, and William and NJ
II. Houston; and through another dsugh.
ter Rebecca Kelly, Rev. John Kelly, of
Ohio
Another sou of Robert Poage was Thomas,
whose daughter, Elizabeth, married Rev.
William Wilson, second pastor of the Stone
Church, Augusta county, Va, and whose
daughter, Mary. married Thomas Wilson,
one of whose sons was Rev Norval Wilson,
and his son Bishop 4. W. Wilson, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. South, and
Rev +. H. Havenner grandson, of the NJ
E. Church; one of Thomas Wilson's daugh
tiers, Agnes, married Rev Homer Clark,
also of the Methodist Church, and another,
Louisa, married DR.. John C. Lowrie, mis-
sionary to India Miss A. V. Wilson,
daughter of Rev. Norval wilson is a mis-
sionary in Mexico.
Another family of Poages, settled mainly
in Rockbridge county, Va, has nearly, if