This message is being forwarded to the list by the listowner. If you can add something to the message below or wish to contact the person who wrote the message, reply to "Claudia Butler" <[email protected]>. Please do not reply to the listowner. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claudia Butler" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 4:15 PM Subject: Baird/Beard's in Hardin Co., TN > I am requesting help in ascertaining the ancestry of a James Baird that > lived and died in Savannah, Hardin Co., TN, His wife at the time of his > death was named "Cynthia", I do not know her maiden name. The 1850 US Census > for Hardin Co., TN, shows Cynthia Baird/Beard, B: 1808 in TN., a widow, with > children Rachel M., B: 1841 in TN., and William H., B: 1843 in TN. The 1840 > US Census for Hardin Co., TN., Seventh District, shows James Baird has > having 1 male under 5, 2 males 5-10, 1 male 20-30, and 1 male 60-70. It > also shows 1 female 30-40. > > I have this information filed with the Chancery Court at Savannah, Hardin > County, Tennessee in September, 1851: > To the Sheriff of Maury County Greeting: Whereas Cynthia Baird has filed > her original and supplemental bills in our Chancery Court at Savannah Hardin > County Tennessee praying that the last will and testament of James Baird may > be set up that the deed of conveyance and bill of sale executed by said > James Baird to A.H. Baird and James Ward may be declared void and for > general relief and praying that James Ward and Jane his wife, A.H. Baird, > J.C. Baird, Matilda Baird, Mary J., William D., James P., John L., Elizabeth > Baird, James Kimis and George S. Ross may be made defendants this and > therefore to command you to make known the premises unto the said defendants > to appear at the next term of our said court in the town of Savannah in the > County of Hardin on the 4 Monday in February next then and there to answer > said petition. Herein fail not and have you then and there this writ and > make known how you had executed the same - Dated the 1st Monday in September > A.D. 1851 > > I have discovered that Mrs.. James Ward, Jane, was the sister of James > Baird. Jane Baird and James Ward were married in January of 1826 in Hardin > Co., TN. Jane W. Baird was born 1/23/1806 in Virginia and died 10/28/1850 > in Hardin Co., TN. James and Jane Ward had the following children: March > C.N. Ward, B: 12/3/1838; Anderson W. Ward, B: July of 1841 in TN who married > Cynthia C.(maiden name unknown); Martha Ann Margaret Ward, B: 3/24/1844 in > Hardin Co., TN that married a Martin S. Hardin; James H. Ward, B: After > 1845; William Ward, B: After 1845. I do not know who A.H. Baird or J.C. > Baird are. I would like to know if, perhaps, they were brothers of James > Baird. > > The answer of James Kimis (guardian of Mary J., William D., James P., John > L. and Elizabeth Baird) to bill complains Cynthia Baird Complainant - This > defendant now and at all times hereafter saving and reserving answers and > says. It is true that John Baird was the son of James Baird - that James > Baird and complainant intermarried - that John Baird intermarried with > Matilda Baird, and died leaving a widow Matilda Baird, and five children > Mary J., William D., James P., John L. and Elizabeth Baird - defendant was > appointed regular guardian - but defendant would say that the said Mary J. > is now intermarried with one John P. McGaw and defendant is no longer her > guardian and also will as the present term of the Maury County Court > surrender his guardianship of the other children the said William D., James > P., John L., and Elizabeth Baird. Having fully answered defendant prays to > be hence dismissed and for such other and further relief - State of > Tennessee, Maury County - January 2, 1849. > > James Kimis is the brother-in-law of the widow, Matilda Dooley Baird. James > Kimis was married to Cynthia A Dooley Kimis on 1/12/1826 in Maury Co., TN. > John P Baird, B: EST 1807, married Matilda Dooley on 10/15/1827 in Maury > Co., TN. John and Matilda Baird's children are: Mary Jane Baird, > B:9/20/1828 in Maury Co., TN. and she married John McGaw (mayor of Columbia, > TN) on 12/17/1845 at the home of Matilda Baird; William Dooley Baird, B: > 8/24/1830 in Maury Co. married Mary J.C. (Maiden name unknown) in 1849; > James P. Baird, B: 8/20/1830 married Sara E. Kinzer on 10/10/1850 in Maury > Co.; John L. Baird B: Unk; Elizabeth Baird, B: Unk. Matilda and Cynthia's > parents were William Bell Dooley of Richmond Virginia and Jane Ferilla > Rutledge Dooley of Wilkes Co., N.C. I do not know who George S. Ross is, or > what relationship he had with the Bairds or the Dooleys. > > I have given as much information as I possibly could in the hopes that > someone can help me identify this James Baird/Beard and his ancestry. > > > > >