According to family history recorded by Daisy Owens Lewis (1885-1985), her great uncle, Oliver Hazard Perry Sawyer, was murdered 6 July 1874: "Perry Sawyer grew to a fine, handsome young man. With a farm-boy friend, he attended a fair or celebration in St. Louis. They drove by horse and buggy from the farm, and he delivered his friend on the way home. Perry was found murdered next morning, laying on a railroad, no near home. The horse and buggy were gone, and he was cold. When the train stopped to pick him up, they found he was murdered. I believe he was the youngest [boy] in the family."
Photo courtesy of Dee Arrasmith.
According to family history recorded by Daisy Owens Lewis (1885-1985), her great uncle, Oliver Hazard Perry Sawyer, was murdered 6 July 1874: "Perry Sawyer grew to a fine, handsome young man. With a farm-boy friend, he attended a fair or celebration in St. Louis. They drove by horse and buggy from the farm, and he delivered his friend on the way home. Perry was found murdered next morning, laying on a railroad, no near home. The horse and buggy were gone, and he was cold. When the train stopped to pick him up, they found he was murdered. I believe he was the youngest [boy] in the family."
Photo courtesy of Dee Arrasmith.
Family Members
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Mary Anna Dosia Sawyer Klock
1840–1932
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Mary Ann Sawyer Courtney
1840–1873
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Stephen Thomas Sawyer
1844–1940
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Michael Cass Sawyer
1848–1935
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Brittannia A. Sawyer Clark
1853–1944
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Margaret Ellen Sawyer Walker
1856–1957
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Frances Elizabeth "Fannie" Sawyer Lawrence
1859–1940
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Ada Belle Sawyer McMullen
1862–1945
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