1829. Throughout their marriage of 35 years, James supported Frances' commitment to help others. They raised eight children. Four of their sons fought for the Union Army during the American Civil War. In the autumn of 1862, Frances and her daughter Mary traveled to the Sea Islands in South Carolina to train ex-slaves. In 1863, James Gage became critically ill and died in Columbus, Ohio. He was buried in Woodland Cemetery, McHenry, Illinois. Frances Gage suffered a debilitating stroke in 1867. She died in Greenwich, Connecticut on November 10, 1884. Selected works Aunt Fanny series Fanny at School Fanny's Birthday Fanny's Journey Other fiction Elsie Magoon, or the Old Still-House in the Hollow: A Tale of the Past (1872) Steps Upward (1873) Gertie's Sacrifice, or Glimpses of Two Lives (1869) Poetry Poems (1867) Hymns "A Hundred Years Hence" References 1808 births 1884 deaths American women poets American abolitionists American feminist writers American suffragists American pioneers People from Marietta, Ohio Women in the American Civil War People of Ohio in the American Civil War Members of the Universalist Church of America American children's writers American temperance activists 19th-century American poets American women children's writers 19th-century American women writers Activists from Ohio Women civil rights activists Pseudonymous women writers 19th-century pseudonymous writers