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My Savage line starts with William Savage who was my grandmother's father. He left when she was very small and nothing is really known about him.
William Savage was born 1861 in Ireland or England, and died Unknown. He married Mary C
Blankenship October 10, 1880 in Lawrence Co., AR, daughter of John Blankenship and Louisa Phillips.
She was born 1863 in Oregon CO., MO, and died Abt. 1920 in AR.
Notes for William Savage:
1880 US Fed Census: enummerated. June 2, 1880
Wm Savage found in the household of JS Blankenship, age 19 Laborer, born MO.
1930 US FED Census:
His daughter Alma Blanche says her father was born in Ireland.
Notes for Mary C Blankenship:
Mary and William divorced when her daughter "Jessie" was young. She married a man named Bell.
The children called him "Mr Bell". When Mr Bell died, Mary married his brother.
More About William Savage and Mary Blankenship:
Marriage: October 10, 1880, Lawrence Co., AR
Children of William Savage and Mary Blankenship are:
Walter Savage, born Bet. 1880 - 1888; died Unknown.
Notes for Walter Savage: Walter was an engineer with an oil company. He married a woman from England and had some children. At one time he worked in Oklahoma. He went to England and we don't know where he died or
where his children are.
Alma Blanche "Jessie" Savage was born February 09, 1889 in Baton Rouge, LA, and died June 30, 1959 in Whitewright, Tx. She married James Polk Ownby August 20, 1913, son of Watterson Ownby and Martha Taylor . He was born May 05, 1885 in Pilot Grove, Grayson Co., TX, and died March 10, 1979 in Whitewright, TX.
William Morton Savage, born 1891; died September 07, 1919 in San Francisco, CA.
Notes for William Morton Savage:
"San Francisco, Cal Sept 8---- A naval "board of inquest" met aboard the dreadnought Mexico, flagship
Admiral Hugh Rodman, commander in chief of the Pacific fleet, in San Francisco Bay, today, to inquire
into the death of three enlisted men and the injury of forty others in a fire which lasted for three hours
aboard the battleship last night. The fire started in the rheostat room. The dead were: William Morton
Savage, engineman, second class, A Hilario and Gonzales Dizon, mess attendant, third class.
Savages nearest kin is his mother, Mrs Mary Bell of Whitewright, Texas. The mess boys lived in the
Philippines.
The fire started in the rheostatroom, presumably from a cigarett, according to A F Billy, chief gunners
mate. It spread to the ice machine-room, where Hilario and Dizon were getting ice. Savage went to
their rescue and after getting them out of the room was caught in a rush of water with which the
compartment was being flooded.
He telephoned to the deck, saying he could save his life if the water was turned off, according to Billy,
but there was such a vast amount of water on the way than even when it was turned off the room was
filled.
Approximately 1,000 visitors on board when fire broke out were cleared from the vessel's side in half an
hour and there was no confusion, Billy said." Dallas Morning News, Sept 12, 1919.
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His tombstone was purchased and erected by his shipmates aboard the USS New Mexico. The
inscription reads, "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends".
More About William Morton Savage:
Burial: Unknown, Vittitoe Cemetary, Kentucky Town, Grayson Co., TX
Interesting Tidbit: Tombstone purchased and erected by his shipmates aboard the USS New Mexico.The only known photographs of him are below with the inscription on his tombstone.
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