Wilburn was born in 1905 in Florida. He married Elverda C. When he passed away in 1957, he was buried in the Garden of the Last Supper, Tallahassee Memory Gardens, Tallahassee, Florida. He shares a grave marker with his wife.[1]
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:STT6-12M : accessed 4 November 2015), W D Sawyer, Monticello, Jefferson, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0006, sheet 11B, family 281, line 55, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 322; FHL microfilm 2,340,057.
"Florida State Census, 1935," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNVX-CS9 : accessed 4 November 2015), W D Sawyer, Lamont, Jefferson, Florida; citing line 21, State Archives, Tallahassee; FHL microfilm 2,425,162.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VTHY-16B : accessed 4 November 2015), D W Sawyer, Lamont, Election Precinct 9, Jefferson, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 33-10, sheet 1B, family 22, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 594.
Information recorded by Carolyn Martin from grave marker at Garden of the Last Supper in Tallahassee Memory Gardens (cemetery), Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, USA.
"Florida Death Index, 1877-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VVSR-494 : accessed 4 November 2015), Wilburn Douglas Sawyer, Aug 1957; from "Florida Death Index, 1877-1998," index, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : 2004); citing vol. 1898, certificate number 26251, Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital Records, Jacksonville.
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Sawyer-8112 and Sawyer-2655 appear to represent the same person because: They are the same person. Wilburn Douglas Sawyer would be my great grandfather through a child he and Vera Alma Brady had. Their son is Clayton Everett Hines, my grandfather.
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