Sayers Manor and Headley family home on Wayne Street

Name/Title

Sayers Manor and Headley family home on Wayne Street

Entry/Object ID

2011.2.155

Description

In the left-foreground, located on the southeast corner of Wayne and Morris Streets, stands Sayers Manor. Sayers Manor is named for the Lewis Wetzel Sayers Sr. family who lived there in the late 1800s - early 1900s. The property had formerly belonged to Alfred Brashear and Margaret Kerr (Bell) Miller, early leaders of Waynesburg College. The house faced College Park across Wayne Street. Further down the street is the home of Robert R. & Nancy Annabelle (Jacobs) Headley, built 1906, later owned by their daughter, Grace Edna (Headley) Daugherty, with her husband Norval Rogers Daugherty, and as of 2018 owned by the Toothman family. The houses faces Ritchie Park across Wayne Street.

Collection

Greene County Historical Society Collection

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1920

Lexicon

Search Terms

Miller family, Sayers family, Waynesburg (Pa.)--Houses, Waynesburg (Pa.)--Parks--Ritchie Park, Waynesburg (Pa.)--Streets--Wayne Street

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

GCHS-AN027-0001-0123

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Bell, Margaret Kerr [1826-1874]

Person or Organization

Miller, Alfred Brashear [1829-1902]

Person or Organization

Sayers, Lewis Wetzel (Sr.) [1866-1940]

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Greene County Places Series - Greene County Historical Society Collection, Waynesburg - Places - Greene County Historical Society Collection

Notes

Archived at the Greene County Historical Society (918 Rolling Meadows Road, P.O. Box 127; Waynesburg, Pennsylvania 15370). Researched and digitized for the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project between 2005-2014. Source Citation: Sayers Manor and Headley family home on Wayne Street, item no. GCHS-AN027-0001-0123, Greene County Historical Society Collection, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).