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From: Frederick Baird <>
Subject: Re: Horace BEARD
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:44:44 -0600


Glad to get your message>
The Randalls that i am related to joined the Morman church and came to
Utah at an early date.
I think Alfred moved to Ohio abt. 1820 and later went toUtah.
Does this ring a bell?
Thank you
Fred
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:27:09 EDT writes:
> 10-17-01
>
> Dear Fred,
>
> It is very possible that we are related. I am not sure where
> the name
> Melvin came from, but that was the name of my great grandfather's
> brother. I
> don't know anything about my RANDALL side. I have had alot of
> trouble
> finding info on my BEARD side until Kathy Porter wrote back to me
> recently.
> Even though my dad always said we were not related to Elijah Beard,
> Kathy has
> proof that we were. It appears that my great great grandfather,
> Horace Beard
> was a brother to Elijah Beard who settled here in Hamilton,
> Indiana.
>
> As far as coon hunting, I have never done any. My uncle hunted
> coons
> when he was alive, but I have never gone. I go hunting for
> squirrel, rabbit,
> deer and ducks. I have been elk hunting in Colorado a couple of
> times. I
> did shoot some coons a few years back that were getting into a
> friends
> chickens. In one week he and I shot 24 coon. It was in the summer
> and we
> had to bury them as soon as we shot them. His chickens stopped
> disappearing
> after we were done.
>
> If you have any info on your BAIRD family I would be
> interested. Uncle
> Melvin spelled his name BAIRD instead of BEARD. Dad tells me that
> "Uncle
> Mel" got mad at the rest of the family and changed the spelling.
>
> Jim
>
>
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