Sayre, Jasper

Passed: 1938-02-07

Age: 79

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1938-02-11

Information: FARMER FOUND EARLY MONDAY BY NEIGHBOR - JASPER SAYRE DIES SOON AFTER REACHING HOSPITAL MONDAY - Seventy-nine year old Jasper Sayre secretly left his son's home near Evans about eleven o'clock Sunday night in his sleeping garments and was not found until about six-thirty o'clock Monday morning when he was rushed to the Kessel hospital in Ripley where he died a short time later from exposure. Mr. Sayre's mental condition had been such for some time that members of his family were always careful that a watch was kept over him.  He made his home with a son, Virgil Sayre of Evans, and about eleven o'clock Sunday night the daughter-in-law woke her husband and told him that she heard a door in the kitchen close and that she feared Mr. Sayre had gone outside.  The son arose from his bed and donned his clothes hastily and rushed out but could find him nowhere.  A grandson of the missing man joined his father a few minutes later and the two searched all night long but were not able to find him.  About six-thirty o'clock Monday, Sam King, of Evans, went out on his farm to do some chores and found the aged man in a dying condition at the foot of a cliff near State Route five and considerable more than a mile from the Sayre home.  He soon made known his discovery and members of his family were on the scene and he was rushed to the hospital.  Whether he had wandered aimlessly about during the night or how long he had lain with a broken left leg at the foot of the cliff from which he had fallen will likely never be known.      Mr. Sayre was one of the outstanding farmers of Union district during his lifetime and owned a large amount of  ?  . He was a prosperous farmer. Several years ago his wife died and since that time, members of his family said, he had never been himself and at times was in a bad mental condition.  He is survived by the following children, Samuel Sayre of Cottageville, Mrs. W. B. Barnett of Pt. Pleasant, Floyd Sayre of Arizona, Hugh Sayre of Leon, R. B. Sayre of New Haven, Virgil Sayre of Evans and Howard Sayre of Red House. The funeral services were held at Otterbein church Wednesday afteroon at two o'clock with Rev. J. C. Swain in charge and burial was in the cemetery there.