Searching for the parents of John Belsey Stage. John Besley was born August 2, 1837 in Wyoming Co., PA. Sometime after the Civil War he changed his name to John Stage, perhaps taking his mother's maiden name. He married Anna P. Carpenter in 1868 in Wysox, PA, and died August 1915 in Waverly, NY, with burial at Tioga Point, PA. His siblings were Luther, Jesse, William, Mary Baldwin, Harriet, Susan, Stephen, George, Mary Jane, Ruben D., Eliza B. and Augustus Besley