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Name: Theodore J. Sayre
Sex: white male
Death Date: 17 Mar 1937
Death Place: Ripley, Jackson, West Virginia
Age at Death: 62y 1m 3d
Cemetery: Pine Hill
Funeral Home: Vail
Birth Date: 2/14/1875
Birth Place: Angerona, WV
Marital Status: maried
Spouse: Anna C. Sayre
Occupation: attorney at law
Mother: Anna Wink
Mother's Birth Place: Pomeroy, OH
Father: Wesley Sayre
Father's Birth Place: Angerona, WV
Informant: Anna C Sayre, Ripley
T. J. SAYRE has been a member of the Jackson County bar twenty years, practicing at Ripley, and is largely a business lawyer and business man, though he has given due share of his attention to public affairs and civic movements in his community.
Theodore Joseph Sayre was born near Angerona in Jackson County, February 14, 1875. Practically all the Sayre families in the United States are descended from one of four brothers who came from England in the army commanded by General Braddock at the beginning of the French and Indian wars about 1754. The grandfather of the Ripley lawyer was Elijah Sayre, who was born in that portion of Mason County that is now Jackson County in 1817, and spent all his life in that locality, a farmer by occupation. He died at the advanced age of eighty-two. His wife, Mary Jane Hunt, was born in what is now Jackson County in 1824, and is still living at Ripley, well in the shadow of her hundredth year. Her children were seven in number: Wesley; Sarah Ann, wife of Allen Shinn, a farmer at Angerona; John O., a farmer at Evans in Jackson County; Jasper, a farmer at Cow Run, Jackson County; Daniel, a farmer at Danstown, Jackson County; Elijah, a farmer at Evans; and Belle, who died in Jackson County, wife of James Barnett, a farmer now living in Putnam County.
Wesley Sayre was born at Angerona in 1844, and spent all his life in that one community, where he died in 1907. Besides owning and operating a farm he was postmaster of Angerona during Cleveland's two terms. Wesley Sayre married Annie Wink, who was born at Pomeroy, Mason County, in 1853, and is living at Ripley. The children of their marriage were: Adam W., a farmer at Angerona; T. J.; Miss Marie, a teacher in the Ripley High School; Marguerite, wife of Charles C. Cunningham, a farmer at Evans in Jackson County; Belle, wife of Raymond Viedhorfer, agent for the Baltimore Ohio Railroad at Girard, Ohio; David, a traveling salesman living at Angerona; Clara, wife of Russell Baker, a farmer at Angerona; Freda, wife of Gay Casto, a dentist at Beckley in Raleigh County, West Virginia; and Leo, who died at the age of five years.
T. J. Sayre acquired a public school education in Jackson County, graduated in 1899 from Marshall College at Huntington, where he was a member of the Erosophian Literary Society, and from there entered the Southwestern Baptist University at Jackson, Tennessee, where he took his law degree in 1901. Mr. Sayre at once returned to Ripley and began the practice of law, and has had a generous share of the wort in both the civil and criminal branches of his profession. His offices are on Court Street, and he also has his home on the same street. He is a director of the Citizens State Bank of Ripley, is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Ripley, and owns considerable real estate in town and a large body of farming land in Jackson County.
Mr. Sayre served one term as mayor of Ripley. He is a democrat and a steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. During the war he was food administrator for Jackson County, made speeches in behalf of the various campaigns, and put the demands of the Government ahead of all his professional engagements.
In 1904, at Ripley, he married Miss Lida E. Hyre, daughter of John A. and Dora (Board) Hyre, residents of Ripley, there her father is a retired farmer. Mr. Sayre lost his wife by death March 7, 1920.
from:
The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 505
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West Virginia Pioneers
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