Son of Rev. John Sayre and Mary Bowes. He graduated from the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1790 as a medical doctor. He died of yellow fever while caring for patients of the same epidemic. The headstone is not the original.
Son of Rev. John Sayre and Mary Bowes. He graduated from the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1790 as a medical doctor. He died of yellow fever while caring for patients of the same epidemic. The headstone is not the original.
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Son of John Sayre & Mary Bowes, died of yellow fever in Philadelphia, bravely caring for his patients in the epidemic; this memorial erected by his great grandson Francis Bowes Sayre in 1938
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