Minerva Buckner "Minnie" Sayre

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Wife of Judge Anthony D. Sayre, and daughter of Senator Willis B. Machen. An artistic and eccentric person, Minnie (as she was always called) had an opportunity as a young woman to join the Drew-Barrymore theater company, but was forced to decline. Minnie bore eight children (three of whom died in infancy)- Daniel Morgan (1884-1885) (died in infancy), Marjorie (1886-1960), Daniel Morgan (1887-1888) (died in infancy), Rosalind "Tootsie" (1889-1979), Clothilde "Tilde" (1891-before 1986), Anthony Dickinson Jr. (1894-1933) (died by suicide), Lenora (1897-1899) (died of diphtheria at age two) and Zelda (1900-1948) (who married F. Scott Fitzgerald).

When her son Daniel passed away, she was so overwrought with depression until her doctor advised that she should be strong for little Marjorie, who still needed her. She eventually pulled herself together and bore her husband four more children.

She outlived her respected husband by over thirty years- she died of a ripe old age of 97 in 1958.