Thanks, Bobbi... ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 07:36:19 -0800 (PST) From: BobbiLaird@aol.com Subject: John William LAIRD connection To: LAIRD-L-request@rootsweb.com I just found the following source of information this morning. John W. Laird is mine, his son James C. was my grandfather. Is there any information below that anyone can connect to? You probably cannot go to the site unless you are an AOLer, but it reads as follows: Thanks, Bobbi http://hometown.aol.com/gengl16616/Bolltext1.htm 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) 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.