Pvt. Warren M. Sayer
Attended the Elgin Academy.
Elgin Continentals
Enlisted April 22, 1861.Aged 20 years.
Armed with .69 US Altered musket taken in the Geneva Raid
Separated at Springfield and returned to Elgin April 25, 1861
F Co. 105th Ill. Vol. Inf.
Mustered In July 31, 1862.Home of record listed as Elgin, Ill's.
Issued .54 Austrian Loren Rifled Musket.
Aug. 1863 Re-issued .58 M-1861 Springfield Rifled musket.
Mustered Out June 1865.
Known Actions;
Resaca, Ga. May 13, 1864
Dallas Hills, Ga. May 25, 1864
Peachtree Creek, Ga. July 20, 1864
Lawtonville Feb. 2, 1865
Averysboro, NC March 16, 1865
Bentonville, NC March 19, 1865
Post war;
Farmer.
Listed on the 1870 Illinois State Census #217/526 as aged 29 years living in Wayne.
Joined Elgin GAR Veteran's Post #49 March 8, 1890.
Ran bookstore for DC Cook Publishing Co.
Member of the First Baptist Church.
Resided at 314 East Chicago St.
Obit; March 31, 1925 issue of The Elgin Daily News.
Warren M. Sayer, Pioneer Elgin resident, Civil war veteran, and for thirty-five years an employe of the David C. Cook Publishing company, died at Miami, Fla., last Sunday evening, according to word received in this city today. He was eighty-four years of age.
Mr. Sayer's death followed a lingering illness. Last year failing health compelled him to seek a southern climate, and during the past few months of his life he had resided at the Miami home of his son, J.H. Sayer.
Born in Wayne, Jan. 5, 1841, Mr. Sayer had lived his entire life in Elgin and vicinity.
While a student at the Elgin Academy and Junior college in 1861, he was one of a group of Elgin young men who enlisted for service in the Civil war.
Mr. Sayer enlisted in the 105th Illinois, Company F, July 31, 1862, at Aurora. He served throughout the remainder of the war, Being mustered out in June 1865. In 1908 he was commander of Elgin post, G.A.R., and at different times had served as post adjutant of the local veterans organization.
Returning from service in the war, Mr. Sayer for several years operated his farm at Wayne, later removing to Elgin to live. For more than thirty-five years he was a familiar figure at the David C. Cook Publishing company, having charge of the book store when the plant was located down town, and having been at the desk in the reception room daily from the time the present plant was built.
Mr. Sayer was a prominent member of the first Baptist church and an active member of Elgin Veterans Post No. 49, Grand Army of the Republic. He was a frequent visitor at the various G.A.R. reunions and encampments.
Mrs. Sayer receded her husband in death five years ago.
He is survived by three sons, J.H. Sayer of Miami, Fla., Eugene Sayer of Chicago and Lewis A. Sayer of Seattle, Wash.; two grandchildren, Melville Sayer of Dallas, Tex., and Carol Sayer of Chicago; a sister Mrs. G.W. Richarson of Clarinda, Ia.; a niece, Mrs. O.B. Ashman, 371 Fulton street, Elgin and one great granddaughter.
During the last years of his residence in Elgin Mr. Sayer resided at the Lillian apartments, 314 East Chicago street.
The body will be removed to this city for burial. Funeral announcements will be made later.
The Elgin post of the G.A.R. will have charge of the funeral.
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| Used with permission Dan Mallett |
Many members of Post #49 sewed watch faces to their ribbons to show they were from Elgin.
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