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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
Subject: [RHEA-L] Poague Biographies, Henry Co. Mo. Rhea mention
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 23:56:07 -0500


POAGUE BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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POAGUE, George Samuel - b: 1827 Ashland, KY
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing
Co -
page: 322
residence: Clinton, Clinton Twp

George Samuel Poague, now deceased, was a worthy pioneer of this section of
Missouri. He was born in Ashland, Kentucky, February 6, 1827, a son of
Thomas
Hoge Poague and Nancy Allen (Frame) Poague. The former was a native of
Augusta
County, Virginia. He was born near Staunton, February 4, 1792, and died at
Victoria, Texas, May 31, 1841. He was an extensive land owner and also owned
and operated an iron furnace. Thomas Hoge Poague was a son of Maj. George
and
Ann Allen Poague, the latter being a daughter of Capt. James Allen, of
Virginia.
Maj. George Poague was born in Augusta County, Virginia, March 28, 1754; he
died
September 16, 1821. He qualified as captain of the Augusta County Militia
June
20, 1781 (Chaukly, Vol. I, page 221). He was in active service. (See
Pensions
Declarations of William Green, Chaukly, Vol. II, page 495; Edward Stuart,
Chaukly,
same; and Ralph Wonless, same Vol., page 498.) Maj. George Poague was a son
of
John and Mary Crawford Poague. John Poague was born in Ireland about 1726,
married June 3, 1751, and died in Augusta County, Virginia, in 1789. He
qualified
as captain of a troop of horse, August 19, 1752, qualified as justice of the
Augusta County Court November 23, 1762, and regularly thereafter until after
the
close of the Revolutionary War, including the dates, August 20, 1776
(Chaukly's
Abstracts, Vol. I, page 196) and November 19, 1779 (Chaukly, Vol. I, page 2)
and
he qualified as high sheriff of Augusta County March 17, 1778 (Chaukly, Vol.
I,
page 196) and was elected Burgess of the Virginia Legislature in 1776
(Chaukly,
Vol. I, pages 504-6) and also qualified as surveyor. John Poague's parents
were
Robert and Elizabeth Poague, who settled near Staunton, Virginia, about
1737.
They had nine children when they settled there, and one son was born
afterwards.
Nancy Allen Frame, mother of George Samuel Poague, was a daughter of Captain
Samuel and Nancy (Allen) Frame. Nancy Allen was a daughter of Captain James
and Margaret Allen, who had two sons and eight daughters, and lived in
Augusta
County, Virginia. Captain James Allen had two brothers, John, who was a
lieutenant under Washington, and was killed at the time Braddock was
defeated
in 1754, and Hugh Allen, who was a lieutenant under Gen. Andrew Lewis and
was
killed at the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1754. Capt. James Allen and his
brothers
came from Ireland and settled in Augusta County, Virginia. He was one of the
first elders of the historic old stone church, which was erected on Middle
River,
near Staunton. George Samuel Poague was reared to manhood in Ashland,
Kentucky, and received his education there. In early life he engaged in the
mercantile business, and in 1858 he came to Missouri, and first settled in
Johnson County, near Warrensburg. Two years later he removed to Benton
County,
and purchased a farm, part of which was in Benton and part in Henry County,
and
here spent the remainder of his life. lie was a staunch Democrat, and a man
highly respected by all who knew him. He did not serve in the Civil War on
account of physical disabilities. He died December 13, 1882. July 25, 1853,
George Samuel Poague and Eliza Christena Kellar were united in marriage at
Louisa, Kentucky. She was born at Barboursville, West Virginia (then
Virginia),
September 28, 1833, and died at her home in Clinton, Missouri, September 12,
1913. She was a daughter of John Louis, and Hannah (Miller) Kellar, natives
of
Germany, and early settlers in Missouri. To George Samuel and Eliza
Christena
(Kellar) Poague were born the following children: John Thomas, retired,
Clinton,
Missouri; George Madison, farmer, Jerico Springs, Missouri; Frederick Cary,
Greeley, Colorado; Emma Eugenia, died at the age of two years; Dr. Samuel
Allen,
a sketch of whom appears in this volume; Henry Fewel, a sketch of whom also
appears in this volume; Hattie Adelaide, the wife of Lawrence Crotty, a
locomotive engineer on the Kansas City, Clinton and Springfield railway;
William
Rhea, merchant, Clinton; and Thomas, who is an adopted son, named Thomas
Cude,
but took the name of Poague, and is in the employ of the Clinton Waterworks.

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