A surviving postcard suggests how taken John was with the area: Date illegible - 1911 - My Dear have found a lovely plot of land, Jacksonville is quite the most wonderful of places. I count the days until I'm home with my dear ones. Your loving husband John John Sage.
Decided to relocate the family to Jacksonville, he put a deposit on a farm where he intended to grow pecan nuts and returned home in late 1911 to prepare the family for the move. George remained in Florida where he became engaged to a local girl. In early 1912 he too returned home in order to settle some business. John's enthusiasm was evidently not shared by Annie Sage who did not want to leave England, having a fear of water - her daughter Dorothy (Dolly) had fallen into a well in the back yard of the family home and almost drowned. Annie also appears to have been rather timid by nature too. John insisted that the family piano and other furniture was crated up and sent ahead and sent over £1,000 with which to pay the balance of the farm. 1The entire family boarded the Titanic at Southampton (ticket number CA. 2343, £69, 11s) on 10 April 1912. It is likely that the family was able to reach the deck shortly before the Titanic went down, there are reports that Stella had got into a lifeboat but left it when other members of her family were unable to join her. The whole family were lost in the sinking, out of the eleven only the body of Will Sage was ever recovered.
A surviving postcard suggests how taken John was with the area: Date illegible - 1911 - My Dear have found a lovely plot of land, Jacksonville is quite the most wonderful of places. I count the days until I'm home with my dear ones. Your loving husband John John Sage.
Decided to relocate the family to Jacksonville, he put a deposit on a farm where he intended to grow pecan nuts and returned home in late 1911 to prepare the family for the move. George remained in Florida where he became engaged to a local girl. In early 1912 he too returned home in order to settle some business. John's enthusiasm was evidently not shared by Annie Sage who did not want to leave England, having a fear of water - her daughter Dorothy (Dolly) had fallen into a well in the back yard of the family home and almost drowned. Annie also appears to have been rather timid by nature too. John insisted that the family piano and other furniture was crated up and sent ahead and sent over £1,000 with which to pay the balance of the farm. 1The entire family boarded the Titanic at Southampton (ticket number CA. 2343, £69, 11s) on 10 April 1912. It is likely that the family was able to reach the deck shortly before the Titanic went down, there are reports that Stella had got into a lifeboat but left it when other members of her family were unable to join her. The whole family were lost in the sinking, out of the eleven only the body of Will Sage was ever recovered.
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