Sayre, Charles Sr.

Passed: 1930-01-01

Age: 85

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Death Notice: 1930-01-01

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Information: CHARLES SAYRE SUCCUMBS HERE/ ONE OF FOUR CONFEDERATE VETS IN CITY--MASONS IN CHARGE OF RITES ON FRIDAY - Charles Sayre, Sr., 85 years old, died at 5:30 o'clock this morning, Wednesday, January 1, 1930, at his residence, 729 James street, following an illness which beset him on the day before Christmas.  Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Davidson Brothers funeral chapel in University avenue.  Morgantown Union Lodge No. 4, A.F & A. Masons will conduct a ritualistic service at the grave in East Oak Grove cemetery.  The body is lying in state at the funeral chapel until time for services.  Mr. Sayre was born at Ripley, Jackson county, Virginia, now West Virginia, on July 7, 1844.  During the Civil war he served as a private in Company B, 22nd Regiment of Virginia Infantry, Echol's Brigade, Breckenridge's Division of the Army of the Confederate States.  He was paroled in May, 1865, and returned to the old Sayre homestead, where he spent all the active years of his life as one of the leading farmers of Jackson county.  In 1915, Mr. Sayre came with his family to Morgantown, where he spent the greater part of the last 15 years with the distinction of being one of four known Confederate veterans residing here.      Mr. Sayre was made a Mason by the Ripley lodge in 1872.  He took an active interest in Masonry and served as master of the Ripley lodge for three terms.  Mrs. Margaret Sayre preceded her husband in death as did also two daughters, Mary Sayre and Jessie Sayre Llewellyn.  He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. W. McClung of Farm School, Pa.; Mrs. M. J. Murphy and Miss Greek Sayre of Morgantown; two sons, Gordon Sayre of Morgantown and Charles Sayre, Jr. of Huntington; and 12 grandchildren, of whom the eldest is Marion R. Llewellyn of Morgantown.