Joseph Knotts Sayre (1937)
KALE, KING, SAYRE
Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 5/12/2007 at 15:35:55
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Tuesday, April 6, 1937
Page 1, Column 2DEATH OF J. K. SAYRE
St. Charles Special - April 3rd
Relatives here received word on Thursday morning telling of the death of J. K. Sayre at his home in Ensign, Kansas. He was 84 years of age and had been in very poor health for several years.
He was a brother of the late Dr. S. N. Sayre and of M. F. Sayre who passed away last December.
His wife was Miss Susannah Kale a member of an old pioneer family of Scott township, at the time of their marriage 62 years ago.
He and his family moved to Kansas in 1885, when the state was mostly an unbroken prairie and where he accumulated seventeen hundred acres of the vast treeless country and as his children left for homes of their own, he was able to give each one a comfortable homestead, and he also lived to see that state take its place as one of the greatest wheat growing sections of the southwest.
He is survived by his wife and two sons and one daughter, several grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Jane King of St. Charles and a brother, D. W. Sayre of Franklin, Minnesota and a host of nephews and nieces in and near St. Charles.
Funeral and burial services were held at Ensign Thursday afternoon.
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