Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1915 — Married In Jasper ounty, They Have Spent Much of Their Lives In the Northwest. [ARTICLE]

Married In Jasper ounty, They Have Spent Much of Their Lives In the Northwest.

Rev. W. H. Sayler and wife celebrated their fiftieth or golden wedding anniversary Tuesday at their home in Rensselaer, to which city they removed only a short time ago, after spending many years in the northwest, where he was engaged in the ministry as a pastor in various Baptist churches. They came back to Rensselaer to spend their remaining days near the scenes of their early lives and where they have five children buried. It was in 1886 that the greatest sorrow of their lives ibefel them, when within ten days their five children died of diphtheria. Rev. Sayler was born in Marion, Ohio, March 22, 1844, and came with his parents, Henry and Elizabeth Sayler, to Rensselaer in 1848, and settled on a homestead three miles west of Rensselaer, on what was then known as the two-roile prairie. There .he grew to young manhood. He entered the Union army in October, 1861, and served for three years and nine months in the 48th Indiana infantry, being discharged on July 15, 1865. On Dec. 28th, of that year, he was married to Miss Cornelia S. Frazee, daughter of Mr. John Frazee and Mrs. Maria Frazee. His wife was bom in Marion township, 6 or 8

miles north of Rensselaer, and afterwards moved to a farm two miles northeast of Rensselaer, where she spent her girlhood days. Rev. Sayler has been a staunch republican in politics and a Baptist in religion. He has read The Rensselaer Republican and the various publications of which it is the outgrowth since he was old enough to read. For more than thirty-five years he has been a preacher of the Gospel of Christ and he hfcs preached more than 3,000 sermons, baptized 1,000 persons, married 100 couples, attended 200 funerals, and traveled 25,000 miles and made 3,000 calls in his capacity as a pastor. He has also attended many public meetings in communities where he has held pastorates and has delivered many lectures and he is hale and hearty and able for more service. He recently retired from active ministry, purchased a home in Rensselaer, and he and x his faithful wife will spend their declining days here and their long and faithful service in the cause of Christ and their sincere and devoted lives deserve for them a long period of retired happiness here among their old friends. They celebrated their marriage quietly, having for dinner that day his sister, Mrs. Jeff Smith and husband, amd William D. Sayler and Whdfcsell Lewis, all of whom except Mr. Smith were present fifty years before when they were married.