to Anne Seddon Bruce on July 28, 1886. She died on December 21, 1888 of a throat hemorrhage. He remarried on June 6, 1893, to Florence Lathrop Field, a daughter of Jedediah Hyde Lathrop and the widowed sister-in-law of retailer Marshall Field (her husband Henry Field had died less than three years earlier). Page's second wife Florence was a member of the prestigious Barbour family, making Page a member by marriage. Page was an activist in stimulating the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities to mobilize to save historical sites at Yorktown and elsewhere, especially in the Historic Triangle of Virginia, from loss to development. He was involved in gaining Federal funding to build a seawall at Jamestown in 1900, protecting a site where the remains of James Fort were later discovered by archaeologists working on the Jamestown Rediscovery project. He died in 1922 at the age of 69 at Oakland, Virginia in Hanover County, Virginia. Publications In Ole Virginia, or Marse Chan and Other Stories (1887) short stories. Befo' de War: Echoes in Negro Dialect (1888) poems. Two Little Confederates (1888) short novel for young readers. Among the Camps (1891) short stories for young readers. Elsket, and Other Stories (1891) short stories. On Newfound River (1891) novel. The Old South: Essays Social and Political (1892) essays. The Burial of the Guns (1894) short stories and one novella. Pastime Stories (1894) short stories. Unc' Edinburg: A Plantation Echo (1895). Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War (1896). The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock (1897) novella. Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction (1898) novel. Santa Claus's Partner (1899). A Captured Santa Claus (1900). Gordon Keith (1903) novel. Two Prisoners (1903). Bred in the Bone (1904) short stories. The Negro (1905). The Coast of Bohemia (1907) poems. John Marvel, Assistant (1907) novel. Under the Crust (1907) short stories and one play. The Old Dominion: Her Making and Her Manners (1908) essays. Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus (1908). Robert E. Lee: The Southerner (1908). Mount Vernon and Its Preservation, 1858-1910 (1910). Robert E. Lee: Man and Soldier (1911). The Land of the Spirit (1913). The Page Story Book (1914). The Stranger's Pew (1914) short story. The Shepherd Who Watched by Night (1916). Address at the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Jamestown (1919). Italy and the World War (1920). Dante and His Influence: Studies (1922). The Red Riders