Person:Mary McClanahan (9)

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VII. — Policy (Polly) McCianahan. Married Thomas Poage.

The Poage Connexion.

Robert Poage, Sr. , with his wife Elizabeth and nine children, came from Ireland to Philadelphia, and from there to this colony, "at his own expense. ' ' The time of his coming is not known, but, on May 22, 1740, he appeared at Orange court to " prove his importation," that he might take up public lands. He settled three miles north of Staunton.

Thomas Poage, son of Robert Poage, Sr. , in- herited his father's homestead. He and his wife, Polly McClanahan, had eight children :

i. Elijah ; married Nancy Grattan, and went to Kentucky.

2. Robert ; married Martha Crawford, and went to Kentucky.

3. John ; married Mrs. Rachel Crawford, and lived in Rockbridge county ; father of Colonel Wm. S. Poage, now (1894) in -Lexington; Virginia, who distinguished himself in the war between the States for gallant and meritorious services as artillery officer.

4. William ; married Peggy Allen. One of his daughters married General James A. Walker, who commanded the Stonewall Brigade in ' ' the war between the States ; M afterwards became Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia ; now a lawyer in Wytheville, Virginia.

5. Ann ; married Major Archibald Woods, of Botetourt ; grandfather of Rev. Edgar Woods, of Albemarle, founder of Pantop's Academy, who is (1894) father of three Presbyterian mission- aries in Tsing-Kiang-Pu, China.

6. Elizabeth ; married Rev. Wm. Wilson, second pastor of old Augusta church, which was built before Braddock's war, on "on the prairie hills and vales of the Triple Forks of Shenan- doah," and still stands, in constant use (1894). He died December 1, 1835, having numbered ninety-four years ; his wife survived him two years and died at the same age. (For a sketch of his life, see Foote's Sketches of Virginia, Second Series, pages 108-9.)

7. Polly ; married Hon. Thomas Wilson, brother of Rev. Wm. Wilson, who was father of Rev. Norvel Wilson, and grandfather of Bishop Alpheus Wilson, of the Southern Methodist Church. His daughter, Mrs. Louise Lowrie,was a missionary in India.

8. Agnes ; died unmarried. (See Supplement to Waddell's Annals, page 443.