Tazwell
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SAYERS, Robert Floyd
BORN: 23 December 1804, Tazwell Co., VA
MARRIED: 1) 11 Feb. 1827, Tazwell Co., VA, Martha T. McMILLIN (b. 21 Aug. 1801, dau. of Andrew McMILLIN and Nancy KING), 2) 28 July 1839, Tippecanoe Co., IN, Elizabeth Magee FROGG(E) (b. 17 April 1819, Fentress Co., TN, d. 24 July 1893, Tippecanoe Co., IN, dau. of Arthur Robinson FROGG(E), (b. 13 Apr. 1776, Greenbrier Co. (W)VA, d. 13 May 1855, Fentress Co., TN), Jane Thompson RICHARDSON (b. ca. 1780, Washington Co., VA, d. 17 Jan. 1839, Tippecanoe Co., IN)
DIED: 22 April 1872, Tippecanoe Co., IN. Buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery.
PARENTS: Alexander SAYERS (b. 8 June 1772, VA, son of William SAYERS and Elizabeth DRAKE), Susan CECIL (b. 1776, VA, dau. of William CECIL and Nancy (Ann) WITTEN)
SIBLINGS: William Cecil SAYERS (b. 15 July 1795), Samuel SAYERS (b. 4 March 1797), John SAYERS (b. 23 June 1799), Elizabeth SAYERS (b. 11 Jan. 1808), Nancy SAYERS (b. 10 Feb. 1811), Thomas SAYERS (b. 26 June 1814), Augusta B. SAYERS (b. 12 Aug. 1817), Derinda SAYERS
CHILDREN OF FIRST MARRIAGE: Nancy W. SAYERS (b. 25 Nov. 1827, Tazwell Co., VA, d. 20 Aug. 1864, Tippecanoe Co., IN, married Andrew Jackson KERR), Elizabeth Jane SAYERS (b. 28 Feb. 1829, Tazwell Co., VA, d. 17 Feb. 1856, Clarksville, IA, married James Addison BONWELL), Susannah King SAYERS (b. 19 Jan. 1831, Tippecanoe Co., IN, d. 28 March 1884, married Cyrus Quinn KIRKPATRICK), Thomas Whitney SAYERS (b. 14 Dec. 1832, Tippecanoe Co., IN, d. 27 Jan. 1870, Tippecanoe Co., IN, married Mary Jane STITT), Rebecca Ann SAYERS (b. 25 Jan. 1835, Tippecanoe Co., IN, d. 25 Aug. 1847, Tippecanoe Co., IN), William Cecil SAYERS (b. 28 Jan. 1837, Tippecanoe Co., IN, d. 3 Oct. 1914, Indianapolis, IN, married Emma DINGLER)
CHILDREN OF SECOND MARRIAGE: (All born in Tippecanoe Co., IN) Alexander Thompson SAYERS (b. 21 Nov. 1840, d. 5 Sept. 1933, married Caroline CARTER), James Borden SAYERS (b. 1 July 1842, d. 26 Nov. 1842), Samuel SAYERS (b. 27 Aug. 1843, d. 15 July 1853), Sarah Jane SAYERS (b. 1 May 1845, d. 23 Jan. 1927, married Marshall CADE), Minerva Ann SAYERS (b. 18 Feb. 1847, d. 4 June 1884, married William A. CORDING), Mary Virginia SAYERS (b. 27 Feb. 1849, d. 2 Aug. 1896), Arthur R. SAYERS (b. 9 Dec. 1850, d. 10 Dec. 1850), Derinda Agnes SAYERS (b. 31 Jan. 1852, d. 9 June 1938, married Ephraim Etchisson MILLER), Selina Ellen SAYERS (b. 15 May 1854, d. 17 April 1922, married Mark BORUM), Elizabeth Marena SAYERS (b. 5 March 1859, d. 29 July 1893, married Edwin R. ARNETT), Robert Floyd SAYERS, Jr. (b. 5 March 1859, d. 17 Aug. 1859)
OCCUPATION: Farmer
OTHER INFORMATION: Robert Floyd Sayers and his family arrived in Jackson Twp., Tippecanoe Co., IN, from Tazwell Co., VA, on 27 September 1830. In the spring of 1831 he built a log cabin on the farm of Levi Wheeler, about one mile south of Shawnee Mound. In 1841, he built a beautiful, large two story, 10 room home, which in March 1940 was burned to the ground in an effort to conceal the tragic murder of its occupant, Georgia MILLER, a granddaughter, by Clair MITCHELL. All family records and heirlooms were completely destroyed.
SOURCE: A Genealogy of The Sayers Family in America - 10 Generations, by Opal Bratton Barnard
Submitted by: Adina Dyer