Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-03-10
j. nj. Baird Dead.
(From the Dunklin Democrat

(From the Dunkl1n Democrat.)
James M. Baird, a prominent
citizen and business man of Senath
and Dunklin county, born at Po-
tosi, Mo-, February 7, 1858, died
at Memphis, Tenn, at 6 O'Clock,
A. NJ, Saturday, February 26th,
1910. The body was entered at
Senath, on Monday, February 2Sth,
the funeral being under the
direction of Senath lodge, No. 513,
A. F. & A. M. Religious services
were conducted at the Baptist
church, the pastor, Rev. r. D..
McKinnis. delivering a sermon
which is said to have been one of
the strongest and most eloquent
ever heard in that city. The at
tendance at the funeral vas made
up of a very large audience, more
than five hundred people, it is es-
timated.
Mr.. Baird had been in poor
health for several years. For two
months, he had been at home,
much of his time. A month before
his death, through exposure at a
fire, he contracted a severe cold,
and later, this turned into pneu-
monia. There were other COM
plications, we'll known to the
public. Getting no better, DR..
Hughes and Henry Hathcock, an
employee of the Baird store, took
him to Memphis, February 18th,
but his condition became worse,
as the trip proceeded, and he was
placed in a hospital, and died the
next morning.
A committee from the Senath
Masonic lodge, composed of
Master A. A. Cancer, Thos. w.
Schultz, w. w. Watson, j. A.
Long and S. g.. Whitaker, met the
body at Charlottesville, Sunday
morning and took it to Senath.
Mr.. Baird was the son of Robert
Baird, an old citizen of Southeast
Missouri, and of a prominent fam
lily. He was reared in Washington
and Iron counties. He came to
Dunklin county, in 1878, through
the influence of the lamented
Judge E. j. Langdon, and was
employed by that grand old man,
several years, at Cotton Plant. In
May, 1880, he was married to Miss
Lucy Douglass, a daughter of the
well-known family, sister of j. M,
and A.. w. and the others of the
name OF Salem township. The
couple moved to Arcadia, in 1881,
and remained there until 1889,
when Mr.. Baird located at Senath
and engaged in the mercantile
business with his brother-in-law,
Judge j. M. Douglass. Later the
firm took in a nephew, w. R.
Satterheld, and continued two
years. Then Messrs. Douglass and
Baird continued as partners until
1900, when the former retired, and
Mr.. Baird had successfully con-
tinued the business, also handling
cotton and most of the time own
ing a gin, and having other in
terests. He acquired a nice lot of
land, provided against financial
misfortune with ample life insur-
ance and left a nice property.
OF the six children born of this
marriage, two survive, these being
Mrs. Huldah Storey, wife of the
cashier of the Citizen Bank, OF
Senath, and Miss Hettie Baird.
The latter was in Des Moines,
Iowa, at school, when her father
died, with her relatives, Walter
Biggs and wife, but she arrived
home Sunday, MI. Biggs comm g
with her.
Mr.. Baird left two brothers, DR..
Robert Baird, Of st. Louis, and
Ed. Baird, of Arcadia, and a
sister, Miss Mamie Baird, of st,
Louis. Ed. Baird was at the
funeral. The other brother and
sister could not attend on account
of the sickness of Miss Baird,