Excerpt from an old newspaper article, transcribed by Cathy Porter-Maynard: ..... "On top of the hill on which the [Sayles] school house stands, there is an old burying ground. But one headstone remains. It bears the name of Lovena [Fisher] McKinley, 18, wife of J.H. McKinley, who died January 30, 1869. The story goes that the members of two families lie there. There are 13 graves in all, most of them victims of yellow fever which swept through localities in the north at that time. A lone tree marks the spot and stands sentinel over the resting place of these pioneers." [End of excerpt].