Husband: James M. LAIRD
Birthdate: 1830 or 1833
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Death date: 1877
Place of death: Bollinger County, MO
Father: John LAIRD (1789-1860/1870)
Mother: Susan ?

Marriage date: 1855
Marriage date: 1855 possibly in Randolph County, AR

Wife: Mary Ann "Minerva" JOHNSON
Birthdate: 1835
Birthplace: Weakley Co. TN
Death date: 1877
Place of death: Bollinger Co. MO
Father: John JOHNSON
Mother: Elizabeth TIBBS

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Fonso Belle LAIRD
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Child No. 2: John William LAIRD
Birthdate: 1856 Randolph Co. AR
Spouses' names: Martha Ann KING
Marriage date: Jan 18, 1878 Cape Girardeau MO
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Child No. 3: Louis D. LAIRD
Birthdate: 1861, AR
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Child No. 4: Minerva Alice LAIRD
Birthdate: Sep 30, 1864, AR
Spouses' names: George Columbus MARKHAM
Marriage date: Jan 2, 1883
Other spouses: Henry LEGGETT Jan 19, 1880
Death date: Dec 26, 1932, Wheeler TX

Child No. 5: Luella LAIRD
Birthdate: 1867
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Child No. 6: Sarah LAIRD
Birthdate: 1867
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Child No. 7: Benjamin
Birthdate: 1870
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Documentation:
* There is a paragraph about the family and descendents in "History of Southeast Missouri" illustrated 1888, originally published by Goodspeed, Chicago in 1888 and in reprint by Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1990, Greenville, South Carolina:
"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) (Markham?) 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."

Notes:
* James M military service: 1862 Confederate.
* Other children born to John William LAIRD and Martha Ann KING, but not in this article, are as follows: James Columbus LAIRD, b. Feb 7, 1881; Effie LAIRD b. Jan 19, 1889; and Edna LAIRD b. Jan 1893.
* Three other children, names unknown.