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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Richard Sayers
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Richard Sayers
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| LAST NAME: Sayers
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FIRST NAME: Richard
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| TITLE: Mr.
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MILITARY: Civil War - GAR Sedgewick Post
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| BORN: Feb 1841
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DIED: 15 Mar 1891
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BURIED: 17 Mar 1891
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OCCUPATION: Confectioner; Farmer
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| BIRTH PLACE: Ripley, Jackson Co., West Virginia
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| DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
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NOTES:
IOOF - Richard Sayers, age 50, died in Salem of stomach trouble
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OBITUARY:
SAYRE--Richard W. Sayre died at the family residence, corner Fourteenth and Chemeketa streets, Salem, Sunday morning, March 15, 1891, aged 50 years.
Richard W. Sayre was born in Ripley, West Virginia, February 1841. His childhood days were spent in Letart, Ohio, and at the age of 19 he enlisted in the U. S. Army, and served three years during the civil war as quartermaster sergeant of the Second regiment West Virginia cavalry. In 1864 he turned his attention towards Oregon and moved here, taking up his abode in Salem, establishing himself in the bakery and confectionery business - the first candy and crackers ever manufactured here being by his hands. His place of business was in the wooden building that formerly stood on State street next to the store of John Hughes. To his efforts the development of Salem into the city that it now is owes not a little. His friends and acquaintances were legion and many of the younger class of Salem's citizens will recall to memory the favors that "Dick", as he was more familiarly known, had bestowed on them. He was married January 4, 1870, to Lizzie J. Martin. A few years later he sold his confectionery business and took up that of farming, moving to the farm situated north of Salem about nine miles, where, with the exception of a few months, the family has since resided. Three daughters and one son were born to them, all of whom, with their bereaved mother, are left to mourn the loss of a dutiful father and husband. Two sisters and a brother are at present, residing in Ohio, but his father and mother have preceded him in death several years. For the past five years, Mr. Sayre had been in poor health, owing to a stomach trouble that was beyond the power of physicians to cure, and which finally resulted in his death. The funeral services will be held in the Evangelical church in this city at 10 o'clock this morning under the auspices of Valley lodge No. 18, A. O. U. W. and Sedgwick post, No. 10, G. A. R., of both of which he was a member.
Oregon Statesman 14 Mar 1891
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IOOF Register of Burials
OS 14 Mar 1891
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| LOT: 787
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