found: The Handbook of Texas, via WWW, August 12, 2013(Sayersville, Texas; originally Sayers; near the east bank of Big Sandy Creek a mile west of State Highway 95 and seven miles north of Bastrop in north central Bastrop County; in 1886 land developer William Elliott founded the town under the name Sayers beside the new Missouri, Kansas and Texas line; the community name changed to Sayersville in 1889 when the post office opened; Sayersville was initially conceived as a cotton-processing center but later became a producer of fuels such as cordwood and, after 1913, lignite from the new Sayers Mine; the town also served as a supply center for local farmers, miners, and employees of the brick factory in nearby Lasher; the post office had closed by 1922, and in 1928 the Sayers Mine suffered a subterranean fire that halted operations; within ten years the railroad had discontinued local passenger service, and by 1940 the town reported about fifty residents and two businesses; by the early 1980s, the only remaining business was the Bucking Hill Bar, built in 1953; during the 1980s the bar served as the meeting place for the Sayersville Historical Association)
