Possibly so, Keith. When I did my quick search, however, I ran into quite a bit of genealogy on the Sayre family, much of it with links to Arkansas. Hmm. If it 'twere me, I think I'd check on the Sayre Family at Genforum. Someone there could have something... trapper -----Snip----- > Company, where it came from, and who it was named for. There is a town in > northern Pennsylvania, near the New York state line, named Sayre, and I > believe that there was a lumber mill there. It may be possible that someone > from Sayre, PA, who was involved in the lumber business there in the 1880's, > decided to open a mill in South Arkansas, and started the Sayre Lumber > Company, and named it after Sayre, PA. This is just a guess since I've come > across no historical records saying one way or the other. Keith Whitman >