BIOGRAPHY: William SAYERS, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, page 561.

  WILLIAM SAYERS, Mattawana, Mifflin county, Pa., was born in Oliver township, 
Mifflin county, April 12, 1835.  He is a son of Grier and Margaret (Walls) 
Sayers.  His grandfather was William Sayers, who came to this country from 
Ireland, took up his residence at Jacksonville, Centre county, Pa., and carried 
on business with success as a tailor, having acquired that trade in his native 
land.  He was married in this State to Miss Grier;  they had the following 
children:  William;  John;  James;  Henry;  Charles;  Grier;  Mary;  and Jane.  
William Sayers was an active and energetic man, and enjoyed a good reputation as 
a business man and as a citizen.  He lived past the age of seventy-five, and his 
wife attained the age of eighty-one or eighty-two.  Their son, Grier Sayers, was 
born and reared in Centre county, where he received a common school education.  
Living with his parents, he carried on the business of farming for his father, 
who at the time of his death owned two fine farms.  He was afterwards engaged in 
various occupations, and finally became a resident of Wayne township, in Mifflin 
county.  Here he married Margaret, daughter of Absalom and Elizabeth (Allen) 
Walls.  Their children are:  William;  John, married in Ohio, and now resides in 
Kentucky;  James, married Matilda Clipper, and resides in Mifflin county;  
Jackson, also of Mifflin county, married Ellen Musser;  Henry, married Catherine 
Landis, resides in Mifflin county;  Robert, died aged about twenty-two, while in 
the United States army, being a member of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry;  
Jane (Mrs. Samuel Shade), of Mifflin county;  and Mary (Mrs. William Temple), of 
Altoona, Pa.  Grier Sayers died in his sixty-first year, after a residence of 
some years in Wayne township;  his wife died aged about sixty-five.  Both were 
of excellent Christian character.
  Their son, William Sayers, was educated in the common schools, and made his 
home with his parents until he was thirty-three years of age, at which time he 
was married.  He is an assistant section foreman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 
and is known for his faithfulness and efficiency as an official.  Like his 
father, he is a Jeffersonian Democrat.  William Sayers (2) was married, January 
28, 1868, to Rebecca, daughter of Solomon and Christina (Barger) Pecht.  Their 
only child is Lee B., at present a telegraph operator at McVeytown station, 
Pennsylvania Railroad.  Mr. And Mrs. Sayers are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal church.