Sayre, Arthur W.

Passed: 1965-08-22

Age: 85

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1965-08-25

Information: Arthur W. Sayre, 85, died Sunday at his home at Evans, following a brief illness.  He was born Nov. 7, 1879, at Angerona, Jackson county, and was a member of the Cottageville EUB Church and the Knights of Pythias Lodge, the latter at Akron, Ohio.  He was a retired employee of the B. F. Goodrich Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron.  Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Eliza Sayre; three sons, Harold, Akron; Minor, Tallmadge, Ohio; and Donald, Dunwoody, Ga.; four daughters, Mrs. Mildred Sayre, Atwater, Ohio, Mrs. Olive Bauchman, Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. Willard Joyner, Akron, Ohio and Mrs. Virginia Stacks, Jacksonville, Fla.; a step-son, Warren Balch, Pt. Pleasant; five step-daughters, Mrs. Vesta Nickol, Leon, W. Va., Mrs. Nellie Sayre and Mrs. Marie Fink, Columbus, Ohio, and Mrs. Bonnie McDade, Pinellas Park, Fla.  Also surviving are two brothers, Samuel V. Sayre, Belpre and Elmer F. Sayre, Morrow, Ohio; three sisters, Mrs. Edith Wilson, Evans, Mrs. Florence Sayre, Cottageville, and Mrs. Lillie Keenan, Parkersburg; 22 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.  Funeral services will be held today (Wednesday) at the Otterbein EUB Church with the Rev. Gerald Sayre and the Rev. Armor Sayre officiating.  Burial will be in the Otterbein Cemetery.****Born the eldest in a family of nine children to Oscar and Eliza Jane King Sayre, whose home carved out of the wilderness at the top of Angerona Hill, was his birthplace. He grew up influenced by his frequent visits to his two grandfathers on Cow Run, David Sayre and Francis King. Arthur spent his young manhood in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he worked as a streetcar conductor. It was there that he married Ora Belle Postlewait in 1903.To this union were born nine children, seven of whom survive their father.  In 1909 the family moved from Pittsburgh to Jackson County W. Va., where Arthur spent several years as a rural mail carrier on the Cottageville route.  In 1923 the home was established in Akron.  In 1947 his first wife passed away; in 1949 he was untied in marriage with Eliza Stone Balch, and they made their home at Evans.