<PRE>Thanks for your comments. The Reader Mill was built after the Sayre Lumber Co. established a mill in Sayre. Reader is a mile down the railroad tracks from Sayre. I have the impression that the Sayre was established first, and that a lumber company, The Sayre Lumber Company, established a sawmill along the railroad tracks, and that a post office was established in Sayre to serve the growing town and mill workers. Then along came a man named Lee Reader who wanted to have the town named after himself. Why or when this happened is unknown, but apparently around 1895 the post office name was changed from Sayre to Reader, and then later it was changed back to Sayre. Lee Reader then established his sawmill a mile down the tracks from Sayre, and in time the mill grew larger than the Sayre mill, which eventually went out of business and shut down. However, my mother remembered that Sayre was considered more of a town throughout the 1920's. It had the railroad station and the post office, and Reader didn't. Sayre slowly declined, though, and the post office was closed and mail came out of Chidester. In the 1940's the railroad station was moved from Sayre to Reader, and I remember seeing it there in 1960. About 20 years ago the railroad station was moved to Fair Park in Hope, AR. I'm still pretty sure there is no family in Ouachita County named Sayre who gave the name to the town. If so, I'd be surprised. I still think the best bet is to find out the origin of the Sayre Lumber 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