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Surnames: Cage, Hale
Classification: Query
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If they were related, it was very distantly. The John Cage you cite was John Doak Cage (8
Sep 1830 - 6 Feb 1894), son of Leroy Howard Cage & Jane L. Moore, who married, on 22
Feb 1850 in Smith Co., Eliza T. Stanford (1834 - after 1894). Cage's great aunt,
Priscilla Cage, married William Hale, but I don't the only two John W. Hales that were
descendants of theirs didn't live in Smith County. Also, the 23 year old John W. Hale
you mention is living with an 80 year old Raleigh Hale - presumably his father or
grandfather - and this Raleigh Hale (as far as I know) has no connection to the Cages.