When Alexander Sayers was born on 8 June 1772, in Wythe, Virginia, United States, his father, William Sayers, was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth Drake, was 24. He married Susannah Cecil on 17 September 1794, in Wythe, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He died in 1840, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States, at the age of 68.
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English: variant of Sayer , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This name is also established in Ireland.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Saoghair; see Sears .
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