Courtesy Tri-States Railway Preservation Society

Many from Montague worked on, or in support of, the Erie Railroad 

in Port Jervis - some provided railroad ties. 

From the May, 1927 Issue of Erie Railroad Magazine:

Courtesy Erie Railroad Obituaries



Jacob Ramage died on March 5 (1927) at his home in Montague township, N.J.,
aged nearly 87 years. As a young man he served in the Civil war
and was wounded at Salem Church, Va. After the war he engaged in farming
and later entered the employ of the Erie Railroad
and for over twenty years was conductor of a freight train.

Mr. Ramage was survived by a widow and one daughter
and also three brothers and one sister.
He was the oldest member of the Odd Fellows' lodge at Port Jervis,
which organization he joined in 1871.
His home was on Clove Road, just north of the mini-mall. 
He had served with Company K, Fifteenth Regiment 
and had been wounded at White Oak. He is buried in Laurel Grove cemetery.