Who are your Iroquois County Lairds? Paul Laird -----Original Message----- From: Eve Love <evelove@erols.com> To: LAIRD-L@rootsweb.com <LAIRD-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, October 25, 1999 3:18 PM Subject: Re: [LAIRD-L] Great-gandfather Lola (Lowell) Laird >PAUL wrote: >> >> Hello: My name is Paul Laird. My great-grandfather was Lola (aka Lowell) >> Alma Laird and my great-grandmother was Belle Laird (nee Wadlow) >> >> Lola (Lowell) Alma Laird married Belle Wadlow around 1896 in East Central >> Illinois. (Iroquois County I think) They had four children: Glen LeRoy >> (1899-1973), Alma Wadlow (1901), Paul Robert(1903-1981), and Lena Belle >> (1905-1983). I do not know the exact dates of Lola and Belle's death or >> birth. >> >> Glen Laird married Buneta Eyrich in 1919 near Milford, IL. They had 3 >> children: Joseph L(name uncertain) (1920-21), Samuel Phillip(1922-1944), and >> Robert Glen(1924-1968). Glen Laird died on November 14, 1973. His wife died >> on May 17, 1987. They are both buried in Milford IL. >> >> Robert Glen Laird (only surviving son of Glen and Buneta) married Aletha Sue >> Ritchley in Baltimore MD, August 15, 1944. They had four sons: David Robert >> (1945), twins Paul Alan & Philip Alvin (1948), and Joseph Glen (1949). >> Robert died in Grant Park IL on May 31, 1968. He is buried in the >> Sherburnville Christian Church cemetery. >> >> David Robert Laird now lives in Spokane WA and has a son Sean Gregory who is >> married and lives in Illinois. >> >> Philip Alvin Laird died in 1993 in Bone Gap IL. He has twin sons Lincoln and >> Tyler who still live with their mother in Bone Gap. >> >> Joseph Glen Laird lives in Russelville KY with his wife Susie. They have two >> boys; Glen LeRoy born in 1973 (has one son) and Patrick James born in 1976 >> (has one son). >> >> I am Paul Alan Laird. I live in Yelm, WA. I have two children (MarySue Laird >> (1976)and Robert Glenn Laird(1980)). >> >> I am seeking information on the parents of Lola Alma Laird, his wife Belle, >> and information on my grandmother Buneta Eyrich Laird and her family. You >> can contact me at thelairds@att.net. Thank you. >> >> ==== LAIRD Mailing List ==== >> Laird Resource Page: >> http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/l/a/LAIRD/Paul, have you tried contacting the Iroquois County Genealogical Society >at www.rootsweb.com/~ilicgs/. I found them very helpful in identifying >my Iroquois County Lairds. > > >==== LAIRD Mailing List ==== >List problem or question? >e-mail Russell Laird at rlaird@1starnet.com >