Source, Rutland Vt.Daily Herald--Mon. Mar. 20, 1950. LEWIS BAIRD RITES. FOREST DALE, Vt.--March 19--The funeral of Lewis Baird, 78, who died Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Boutwell in Mendon, Vt., was held yesterday in the Miller & Ketcham Funeral Home. The Rev. Walter F. Lewis, former pastor of the Westeyan Methodist church, officiated. The body was paced in the vault at Pine Hill cemetery. Mr.Baird was born in Goshen , Vt., May 20, 1871, but most of his life had been spent here. The bearers were Maurice Baird, Lewis Watters, Lyle Watters, Harold Ryder, Chester Boutwell and Clifford Wilson .