Lura R. Sayre (1948)

KESSLER, MCLAUGHLIN, MCVAY, SAYRE

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 2/13/2007 at 07:39:36

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, March 31, 1948

MRS. LURA SAYRE, ST. CHARLES DIES

Member of Pioneer Family Came to County in 1865

Mrs. Lura R. Sayre, well-known St. Charles resident and member of a pioneer Madison county family, died at her home in St. Charles Sunday, March 28. She was 88 years of age, and had been in failing health for the last four years.

Mrs. Sayre was a native of Wisconsin, where she was born at Boscobel on Oct. 9, 1859, the daughter of H. A. and Catherine McLaughlin. She came to Iowa with her parents, in 1865, making the trip in a covered wagon. The family settled on Clanton creek, five miles southwest of St. Charles. She spent the remainder of her life in Madison county, with the exception of one year at Marne.

She was married Sept. 1, 1880, to Dr. S. N. Sayre. They were the parents of five children, one of whom died in infancy.

Surviving are two sons, Dr. I. K. Sayre of St. Charles, and L. B. Sayre of Winterset, Madison county superintendent of schools; two daughters, Mrs. Laura E. Kessler of Iowa City, and Mrs. Nydia Wave McVay of Des Moines; eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Tuesday from the St. Charles Methodist church, in charge of the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Hall. Burial was made in the St. Charles cemetery.

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