Census: 1880 Plainfield, Otsego Co., New York: age 4
Baptism: 1887 New York
GRAD: 27 JUN 1900 Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin: Milton College - English

Mabel Anna (Clarke) Sayre 1876-1958
"The Milton and Milton Junction Courier", Milton, Wisconsin, Thursday, Feb. 6, 1958, p 4.
Funeral services for Mrs. C. S. Sayre, 81, who died in Edgerton Memorial Hospital last Thursday morning, were held at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Milton Seventh Day Baptist church. The Rev. Elmo Fitz Randolph officiated. Edward Rood was organist and two selections were sung by the quartet composed of Don V. Gray, Herbert Crouch, Kenneth Babcock and Robert W. Burdick. Burial was in Milton Cemetery, pallbearers being D. N. Inglis, B. R. Rood, Charles Nelson, Justin Camenga, Russell Burdick and Lawrence Lippincott.
Mabel, daughter of the Rev. Herman D. and Anna Jennings Clarke, was born July 23, 1876, at Unadilla Forks, N. Y. As a minister's daughter, she lived in Leonardsville, Churchville, and Independence, N. Y., and in Dodge Center, Minn., where the family moved in 1893. On Dec. 29, 1900, her father performed the ceremony which united her in marriage with the Rev. Charles S. Sayre, then pastor of Churches at Berlin, Coloma and Marquette, Wis.
In 1906 they returned to Dodge Center, where the Rev. Mr. Sayre became the pastor. The family moved to Albion in 1912, assuming the pastorate there. While in Albion they became well known locally for their duet singing. In 1940 they moved to Milton, where the Rev. Mr. Sayre died in 1946.
She is survived by two sons, Maurice C., of Tucson, Ariz., and Walter R., of Milton, and three grandchildren.
Mrs. Sayre had been a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church since 1887 when she was baptized by her father.
She was active in church and community life. She had been president of the Woman's circle of the Milton Church and had served as assistant superintendent of the Sabbath school. She was past president of the Woman's Village Improvement Club, was active in the Nature Study group and Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

Census: 1880 Welton, Clinton Co., Iowa: age 12
GRAD: 1899 Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin: Milton College

Note: Pastor of Berlin, WI SDB Church, fall 1899
res Hammond, LA in 1902
of Albion, Wi in 1935157

Charles Salathial Sayre 1868-1946
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 141, No 4, p 70, July 22, 1946.
Charles S., youngest son of Louis and Margaret Babcock Sayre, was born February 14, 1868, in Welton, Iowa, and died in a hospital in Rochester, Minn., March 19, 1946.
Charles Sayre was a member of the class of 1899 of Milton College and was the tenor member of the first evangelistic quartet sent out by that school. His interest in singing has been a source of pleasure to him and his friends throughout his life. On December 29, 1900, he was married to Mabel A. Clarke at Dodge Center, Minn., and a few days later was ordained to the gospel ministry. In his years as a Seventh Day Baptist minister he serves as pastor of churches in Berlin, Coloma, and Marquette, Wis.; Hammond, La.; Alfred Station, N. Y.; Dodge Center, Minn.; and Albion, Wis. Following his retirement from the ministry in 1921 he owned and operated a garage in Albion until 1940 when he moved to Milton with his wife and worked as watch repairman until his death.
Close survivors are his wife; two sons, Maurice of Tucson, Ariz., and Walter of Milton, Wis.; three grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. E. E. Loofboro of Albion, Wis.
Farewell services were conducted in the Milton Seventh Day Baptist church by Rev. Elmo F. Randolph, assisted by Dr. Edwin B. Shaw. Burial was in the Milton Cemetery. E. F. R.