This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XV.2ADI/210.293 Message Board Post: Are you still looking for info on Sayre? I grew up at Redland Community, which is about 10 miles away, and I have a photo of the school at Sayre (probably about 1920). My grandfather, George Nelson Cox, was the schoolteacher at Sayre at the time and is in the photo with all his students. He taught in several of the small community schools during the 1920s & 30s. The schoolhouse appears to have been a large, two-story, wood-frame building in a wooded setting. We pronounce Sayre as two syllables ("say-ree"), rhyming with "maybe". Is that how you pronounce your surname? I don't know anything about an original person for whom the community was named, but I will ask my family and perhaps can have a later addition to this mystery.

We have a project going on here in Camden where we are trying to get pictures of all the old schools in Ouachita County. If you can send me a picture of the old school at Sayre I will print it out and give it to Gerald Keith, who is in charge of this "old school" project. He will post it in our museum at the old railroad station. Its been only a few weeks ago I heard him say that Sayre was one of the schools pictures he still had to find.. I'm sure he would appreciate this picture very much. Thanks. Bill Lusby