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From: guinn white< >
Subject: JESSIE MAE BAIRD HAAS
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 21:03:51 -0500 (CDT)


Jean wrote to Fred:
on Thu, 4 Jun 1998 23:48:38 EDT writes:
>Hi Fred,
> Sending you some more straw for your house <G>. My
>Step-Grandmother, of
>who I loved more then life, was a Baird from NC. I haven't gotten to
>her
>family history yet. I have her obit. from the news paper. It reads
>
>Jessie Mae Baird Haas, 87, 417 E. Club Circle Dr. Gastonia,NC, died
>Tuesday
>(I/28/1986) in Gaston Memorial Hospital.
>She was the wife of the late Jesse Edward Haas, daughter of the late
>Thomas
>and Mary Jane Barnette Baird. Born April 15,1898.
>

This following family might be the ones you are looking for:
Thomas is the son of William BAIRD & Mary M. MARKS who were
in Clayton Co GA in 1870. (William was b 1827 in Madison Co
GA & d 1902 in Spaulding Co, GA. William was the son of
Thomas BEARD and Mary (Polly) BONE)

THOMAS H.BAIRD was born Abt. 1854 in Georgia . He married MARY (MOLLIE) J.
BARNETT December 10, 1875 in Clayton Co., Georgia.

From the 1880 Census, Clayton Co.
Children of THOMAS BAIRD and MARY BARNETT are:
i.DESERET BAIRD, b. Abt. 1877.
ii.IRA BAIRD, b. Abt. 1879.

My source, Terrell Shaw, shows Thomas lived in Bessemer, Gaston Co., NC
and had a daughter named Nora b abt 1885.

See Terrell Shaw's home page at:
http://members.aol.com/terrelshaw
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1870 Census, Clayton Co., GA, Jonesboro, June 2
2nd page (#71 stamped number)
#13/13
Baird, William, 46, m/w/farm laborer (birthplace of all was listed as GA)
Mary, 43, f/w/keeping house
Mary M, 16, f/w
Thomas, 14, m/w, farm laborer
John L., 12, m/w, farm laborer
Malinda A., 10, f/w
Benjamin, 8, m/w
Emily K., 4, f/w
Mary T., 18, f/w (daughter of Thomas)
Thomas, 73, at home

John L. is my gg-grandfather.
Terrell is descended from Benjamin.

Hope this is the right family for you Jean.

Good Luck.
Another BAIRD Cousin,

Leandra

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