XVII The Granary

Page 67	Gage	Smith	78
		Richard	49
		Elizabeth	41

Smith Gage was the son of Martin and Sarah. He was the widowed husband of Mary of Monks Eleigh (who died in 1866 aged 77), and father of nine children including Sarah (who married blacksmith Samuel Tampion from Naughton, and whose father Thomas once worked the smithy beside The Old Forge) and Louisa, who married Clement Poole and lived in The Summer House. In his will proved in 1878, Smith gage expressed particular concern that his son Martin should be given a good apprenticeship, though in fact the lad had died in 1868.

Elizabeth died in 1896 and Richard in 1899. Both the latter were unmarried. In his will, Richard made bequests to his cousin Miranda and to the children of her brothers Frederick and Edward Gage, whose father William of Weavers was Smith Gage's brother.

All three above are buried in the churchyard, and tombstones record their last resting places.

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