Sayre, Bayard F.

SAYRE

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 6/23/2021 at 13:27:51

Source: History of Warren County, Iowa, by Gerard Schultz and Don L. Berry, The Record and Tribune Co., Indianola, Iowa, 1953, p.339

ALONZO E. SAYRE
BAYARD F. SAYRE
Alonzo E. Sayre, well - known a n d highly respected farmer of Virginia township, was born in this township Feb. 20, 1870. His parents were Enoch and Elizabeth (Felton) Sayre. One of his maternal ancestors, Nicholson Felton, was a noted Greek scholar and divine, who was one of the committee appointed by King James I to translate the Bible.
Dec. 12, 1894, Alonzo E. Sayre married Laura Foreman. Children born of this marriage are Floran and Bayard F., who has lived on the Sayre farm three miles west of New Virginia most of his life. Bayard was born on this farm April 1, 1900. He attended the old Irish Grove elementary school, New Virginia High School and Simpson College. Jan. 25, 1919, he married Ada M. Frederick, daughter of L. E. and Alpharetta Frederick of New Virginia. The three children born to this marriage are Virginia, now the wife of Dr. R. C. Doolittle of the U. S. Naval hospital at San Diego, Calif., and Len and Lon, twins, who now reside in Oakland, Calif.
The Sayre farm in Virginia township has almost 12 miles of woven wire fence. At first the farm was used mainly for dairying, raising purebred Hampshire hogs and Hereford cattle, with sheep as a side line. In later years sheep raising took first place on the farm, there being more than 800 sheep on the farm in 1951.