Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Squire Sayre    
                Born: Feb-10-1801          in Virginia (now West Virginia)  1
                Died: Oct-25-1865           1
              Buried:                      in Vanderhoof Cemetery, Newton, Jasper Co, IL  1 (see note 1)
              Census: 1860                 in Ross Co, OH  
              Census: 1850                 in Jackson Co, (W)VA  
              Census: 1840                 in Harrison Co, (W)VA  
              Father: Benjamin Sayre   (1774 - 1829) 
              Mother: Nancy Ann Tucker   (1778 - 1846) 
                Wife: Lydia "Liddie" Davis     
             Married: Jan-30-1822          in Harrison Co, (W)VA  2 (see note 2)
                Born: Oct-15-1799           1
                Died: Apr-11-1865           1
              Buried:                      in Vanderhoof Cemetery, Newton, Jasper Co, IL  
              Census: 1850                 in Jackson Co, (W)VA  
              Census: 1840                 in Harrison Co, (W)VA  
              Father: Nathan Davis, Jr.   (1772 - 1866) 
              Mother: Jane Sutton   (1770 - 1857) 
Notes 
           M Child 1: Lemuel J. Sayre      
                Born: 1836                 in Virginia (now West Virginia)  3,4
                Died: May-  -1862          in Tennessee  5
              Census: 1860                 in Huntington Twp, Ross Co, OH  
              Census: 1850                 in Jackson Co, (W)VA  
            Military:                      Pvt, Co B, 63rd Ohio Inf, Civil War (died of disease)  5,6
                Wife: Catherine Elizabeth Schotts  b. Feb-18-1835  d. Sep-22-1918  
           M Child 2: Preston Herbert Sayre      
                Died: Dec- 1-1864          in Salisbury, Rowan Co, NC   (see note 3)
            Military:                      Co F, 149th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Civil War  

Sources:
(1) Findagrave.com. 
(2) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & 
Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >, p. 21. 
(3) 1850 Census, Jackson County, (W)VA. 
(4) 1860 Census. 
(5) U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(6) U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 [database on-line], Ancestry.com and National 
Archives & Records Administration. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Headstone inscription:  SQUIRE G (OR C) SAYRE  Died Oct 25, 1865  aged 64
years
Note (2) "Davis - The Settlers of Salem WV," p. 21, reports marriage date as Jan 30
1822.  But Wes Cochran's "Harrison County WV Marriages 1785-1894," p. 51, shows
it as Feb 14 1822, noting that the groom's name could be read as either Sears or
Sayre.
Note (3) In a Confederate prison.







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