AR Family Group Sheet for James M. LAIRD Family

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Submitted by:  Bobbi Laird
e-mail and/or snail mail:  BobbiLaird@aol.com


FATHER:  James M. LAIRD
birth:  1830 or 1833
marriage:  1855 possibly in Randolph County, AR
other marriages:  
military service:  1862 Confederate
death:  1877 Bollinger County, MO
father:  John LAIRD
b. Feb 18, 1789 Iredell Co. NC d. 1860-1870 Lamar Co. TX
mother:  Susan ?

MOTHER:  Mary Ann ("Minerva") JOHNSON
birth:  1835 Weakley Co. TN
marriage:  1855
other marriages:  
death:  1877 Bollinger Co. MO
father:  John
JOHNSON
mother:  Elizabeth TIBBS


CHILD 1:  Fonso Belle LAIRD
birth:  
married:  
marriage:  
other marriages:  
death:  

CHILD 2:  John William LAIRD 
birth:  1856 Randolph Co. AR
married:  Martha Ann KING
marriage:  Jan 18, 1878 Cape Girardeau MO
other marriages:  
death:  

CHILD 3:  Louis D. LAIRD
birth:  1861, AR
married:  
marriage:  
other marriages:  
death:  

CHILD 4:  Minerva Alice LAIRD
birth:  Sep 30, 1864, AR
married:  George Columbus MARKHAM
marriage:  Jan 2, 1883
other marriages:  Henry LEGGETT Jan 19, 1880
death:  Dec 26, 1932, Wheeler TX

CHILD 5:  Luella LAIRD
birth:  1867
married:  
marriage:  
other marriages:  
death:  

CHILD 6:  Sarah LAIRD
birth:  1867
married:  
marriage:  
other marriages:  
death:  

CHILD 7:  Benjamin
birth:  1870
married:  
marriage:  
other marriages:  
death:  

Three other children, names unknown


NOTES:  There is a paragraph about the family and descendents in "History of 
Southeast Missouri" illustrated 1888, originally published by Goodspeed, 
Chicago in 1888 and in reprint by Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1990, 
Greenville, South Carolina:  
"John W. Laird is the son of J.M. and Mary A. (Johnson) Laird.  The father 
was born in 1830 in Central Tennessee, and early learned the shoemaker's 
trade.  He was married in 1855 and located on a farm in Randolph County, ARK, 
and remained there until 1863, when he removed to Jackson County, IL, and
resumed farming and working at his trade.  In 1866 he returned to Tennessee
and two years later came to Missouri and settled on a farm in Bollinger
County, which he afterward managed in connection with working at his
trade.  In 1862 he served six months in the Confederate Army.  
He died at his home in Bollinger County in 1877.  Mrs. Laird was born 
in Weakley County, Tennessee, in 1834, and died the same year as her husband.  
They were the parents of ten children, five of whom, John W. Lewis D., 
Alice (now the wife of G.C. Marhan) (Markham?) Leuella A. 
(the wife of E. Ellison) and Fonso Belle are living.
"John W. Laird was born in Randolph County in 1856, and was reared at the 
home of his parents receiving his education in the common schools.  
In early life he learned the shingle-maker's trade, and in 1879
was united in marriage with Martha King.  Three children have been 
born to this union:  James L., Margaret A. and Nettie C.  In 1881 
Mr. Laird located on a farm in Dunklin County, MO but soon returned 
to Bollinger County and purchased a farm on which he still resides.  
In the spring of 1888 he was elected road commissioner of Liberty Township, 
of that county.  Mr. Laird has travelled considerably, is industrious 
and well respected, and is one of the rising young men of the county."

Other children born to John William LAIRD and Martha Ann KING, but not in 
this article, are as follows:  James Columbus LAIRD, b. Feb 7, 1881; Effie 
LAIRD b. Jan 19, 1889; and Edna LAIRD b. Jan 1893.



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