BAIRD Mary Florence

Notes:

Rumor: Marion Baird had a scar on his head that was a result of a gunshot wound inflicted by Kelly Bishop over moonshine. Bernice Baird story as told to a neighbor. Marion Baird drove a school bus. Didn't work anywhere else except the school bus and moonshine. Kelly Bishop was a revenueer and shot him at a still. He was the father of Marion Simms Baird. James Walter Baird, MD, was the father of Marion Baird.

The Baird cemetary on Rt. 612 is called Grape Hill.

Marion Baird was also a church going man.

Son:
Name: BAIRD, JAMES WESLEY Sex: [Male] Date of Birth: 25 Feb 1918 Place of Birth: SURRY County, VA Mother: Nannie Baugh Father: Marion Sims Baird Sr., deceased Notes: A lifelong resident of Surry County, he died at his home age 82. Source: Obituary: October 24, 2000, Virginian-Pilot, The (Norfolk, VA) Posted by: Sharon Pulsipher

Marion married BAUGH Nannie Proctor on 11 Mar 1914. Nannie (daughter of BAUGH William Wesley and RAMEY Mattie Florence) was born on 5 Jun 1895 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; died on 4 Dec 1989; was buried in Claremont, VA (St. Anne's Cemetary). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Carsley, Surry County, VA (Carsley Methodist Church); Carsley Mrthodist Church

Notes:

Married:
Poss married at Carsley Church as she was a member

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Doctor, MD
• Reference Number: 752

Notes:

Mollie L. Hasty was from Portsmouth.

Marion Baird had a scar on his head that was a result of a gunshot wound inflicted by Kelly Bishop over moonshine. Bernice Baird story as told to a neighbor. Marion Baird drove a school bus. Didn't work anywhere else except the school bus and moonshine. Kelly Bishop was a revenueer and shot him at a still. He was the father of Marion Simms Baird. James Walter Baird, MD, was the father of Marion Baird.

The Baird cemetary on Rt. 612 is called Grape Hill.

Marion Baird was also a church going man.

Quoted from "The Descendants of Alexander Peter Baird II" written in 1935 by
Kathleen Baird to her father Leonidus F. Baird: "James Walter Baird attended
John's Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. where he received his M. D. degree.
He practiced medicine in Surry County."
Jean Goodrich Johnson comments: "He lived on Route 40 about 4 mi. E.
of Waverly. The house he owned was removed about 1964 by George L.
Peffer, then owner who built a brick ranch type house in front of the old house.

Occupation:
From Tombstone

James married HASTY Mary Susan on 31 Aug 1875 in Portsmouth, VA. Mary was born in Portsmouth, VA; was christened on 12 Sep 1856; died on 26 Sep 1924; was buried in Surry County, VA (Baird Family Cemetary(Grape Hill), Rt. 612)). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Molly
• Reference Number: 753

Notes:

Mollie L. Hasty was from Portsmouth

Buried:
Her tombstone is missing

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Petersburg, VA; McCabes University School
• Lived(s) In: Surry County, VA (Oake Hill)
• Other: Member Surry County School Board for 10 years
• Religion: Cabin Point, Surry County, VA.; Episcopalian
• Political Office: 1899, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; he was elected to the Virginia General Assembly
• Occupation: 1900, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Farmer
• Census: 1920, Guilford, Surry, Virginia

Notes:

3. William Wesley Baugh, third son of William Wesley Baugh and Martha Ann Elizabeth Edwards, his wife, was born at "Oake Hill Surry County, December 16, 1862. He attended McCabes University School in Petersburg. On January 31, 1884, he was married to Mattie Florence Ramey, at her father's home in Spring Grove. She was born at Spring Grove, the daughter of Joseph Ramey and Alice West, his wife. Her grandfather West (William Major) was sheriff of Surry County for over forty years. Her grandmother West was before her marriage, Lucy Caroline Warren, a direct descendant of Thomas Warren, the builder of Warren or Rolfe House near Surry Courthouse.

Religion:
Attended Old Grace Church in Cabin Point

Political Office:
Represented Surry and Prince George Counties.

Occupation:
per the 1900 census

Census:
1920 United States Federal Census
about Benjaman E Baugh Jr
Name:Benjaman E Baugh Jr          
Age:2 [2 6/12]          
Birth Year:abt 1918 [abt 1917]          
Birthplace:Virginia          
Home in 1920:Guilford, Surry, Virginia          
Race:White          
Gender:Male          
Relation to Head of House:Grandson          
Marital Status:Single          
Father's Name:Benjaman E Baugh          
Father's Birthplace:Virginia          
Mother's Name:Emely L Baugh          
Mother's Birthplace:Virginia          
Neighbors:View others on page          
Household Members:NameAge               
Wellington E Barnes 61               
Rebecca L Barnes 59               
Emely L Baugh 23               
Benjaman E Baugh 25               
William W Baugh 5 [5 9/12]               
Benjaman E Baugh 2 [2 6/12]               

William married RAMEY Mattie Florence on 31 Jan 1884 in Spring Grove, Surry County, Va. Mattie (daughter of RAMEY Joseph Benjamin and WEST Alice) was born in Mar 1870 in Spring Grove, Surry County, Va; died on 21 Apr 1919 in Claremont, Surry County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Petersburg, VA; Dancing lessons from a Prof. Griszel
• Education: Petersburg, VA; Finishing school run by a Mr. Warwick
• Religion: Spring Grove, Surry County, Va; Spring Grove Methodist Church

Notes:

Mattie Florence Ramey, at her father's home in Spring Grove. She was born at Spring Grove, the daughter of Joseph Ramey and Alice West, his wife. Her grandfather West (William Major) was sheriff of Surry County for over forty years. Her grandmother West was before her marriage, Lucy Caroline Warren, a direct descendant of Thomas Warren, the builder of Warren or Rolfe House near Surry Courthouse.

Religion:
The church was built of the lumber her father had given to the members

Notes:

Married:
Married at her father's home in Spring Grove, and lived with her parents the first year

Other Events and Attributes:

• Cemetery: Surry County, VA (Lois Goodrich Cemetary on Rt 612); Grape Hill
• Reference Number: 746
• Census: 1860, Surry County, VA

Notes:

Married by Alexander Steward
Will of Alexander Peter Baird Recorded 1/27/1885:
Leaves $400.00 to sons, James Walter Baird, Alexander Peter Baird, Solon Winfield Baird, amd Leonidus Floyd Baird which they owe him; Leave homeplace to Emmitt Finly Baird and Emmitt Finly has to pay $400.00 to Martha Florence and Ora Sue(daughters). The Bishop acres to be sold and divided between his other two daughters, Sarah E. Harrison, and Betty F. Clary. ... Doris Jean Johnson Records

Census:
Alexander P Baird in the 1860 United States Federal Census

Name:      Alexander P Baird
Age:      33
Birth Year:      abt 1827
Gender:      Male
Birth Place:      Virginia
Home in 1860:      Surry, Virginia
Post Office:      Cabin Point
Family Number:      60
Value of real estate:      View image
Household Members:     
Name      Age
Alexander P Baird      33
Rebecca A Baird      30
James W Baird      9
William B Baird      7
Sarah A Baird      5
Alexander P Baird      3
Solan W Baird      2
Baird      1/12

Alexander married BOOTH Rebecca Ann on 3 Dec 1849 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States. Rebecca (daughter of Col. BOOTH Samuel and ELLIS Sarah (Sally)) was born on 1 Aug 1829 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; died on 7 Dec 1907 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; was buried on 9 Dec 1907 in Surry County, VA (Lois Goodrich Cemetary on Rt 612). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 459

Notes:

Married by Alexander Stewart. Only one husband they are the same.

Her kids and Binns Beverly's were double cousins

Notes:

Married:
Married by Alexander Stewart. Lonnie Baird's records show married on 3 Dec 1849

Name:      Alexander P. Baird
Gender:      Male
Marriage Date:      3 Dec 1849
Marriage Place:      Surry, Virginia
Spouse:      Rebecca A. Booth
FHL Film Number:      34097
Reference ID:      p 204

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1860, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Farmer
• Military: 1861-1862, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; CSA: Co.C, 13th Va Cavalary

Notes:

Only Child of John Cryer Baugh and Agnes
My great-great grandfather, John Cryer Baugh, was born February 14, 1813. Nothing is known concerning his boyhood. He married Agnes Rebecca Neville Tatem of "Shady Run", Prince George County. Her father was David Tatem. The first few years of their marriage they lived at "Mount Vension". It was here at "Mount Vension" that their only child William Wesley Baugh was born. During the year 1840 John Cryer acquired from the Major Family a plantation in Surry County which he named "Oake Hill". Besides this plantation he owned Retreat Farm and Spring Grove. He was instrumental in building old Union Methodist Church which stood on the old stage road (Rt. 10) two miles east of the present village of Spring Grove. Cousin John Owen said that he was a very generous person - he built a school house on his plantation, employed a teacher and gave free tuition to those neighboring children unable to pay. He died very suddenly on April 22, 1861. A few years before her death, Aunt Ann Baugh Avery said that she remembered clearly his death. She said that she and her mother were living across the road from brother John. Fairly in the morning a colored slave came to call them. Soon after they reached the house he died surrounded by his family and few house servants. He was buried on the plantation.


1. William Wesley Baugh

William Wesley Baugh, only son of John C. Baugh and Agnes Tatem, his wife, was born at "Mount Vension" in Surry County in the year 1839. He was educated in the private school of his father and attended Franklinton Institute in North Carolina. On November 18, 1858 he was married to pretty Martha Ann Elizabeth Edwards, sometimes called "Nannie", in the drawing room of her father's home "Oakland" in Surry County. She was born a t her mother's old home, "Cedar Field", Surry County (see Bohannan's Book Old Surry) March 22, 1841. The daughter of Dr. William Henry Edwards and Elizabeth Procter, his wife. Her father was a direct descendant of William Edwards of Jamestown, Clerk of the Colony and of the Court 1688-94, and of the council of the colony. Nartha Ann Elizabeth attended school in Murfreesboro, N. C. They lived at "Oake Hill" with his parents until "Home Cottage", their home, the, gift of his father, was completed. During the year 1859, Little Willie, their first babe was born. Great grandfather lived at "Home Cottage" just a short while, for with the death of his father in 1861 they moved back to "Oake Hill" to be with his mother.

When the war broke out he enlisted and joined Company, 13 Va. Cavalry, and was made a captain. During the war, my grandfather, William Wesley Baugh, was born (1862). His name at birth was William Edwards, after his grandfather Edwards, but later for some reason was changed to William Wesley (see old family Bible).

With Lee surrendering at Appomattox, and the war coming to a close, he returned to his beloved "Oake Hill". it was not the Oake Hill that he had left. His barns and grainery were empty, and the slaves that had worked his fields were gone. They were poor - Home Cottage and Spring Grove had to be sold . At the courthouse in Surry there is recorded the deed conveying these two places to a Mr. Hillyard that tract of land known as "Home Cottage" embounding all the lands south of the stare road from Cabin Point to Surry Courthouse which formerly belonged to John C. Baugh, deceased, and that other tract known as "Spring Grove" formerly belonging to John C. Baugh, lying on the north side of the stage road from Cabin Point to Swans Point and bounded by said lands and the ditch between the tract and William Allen's tract known as Allen's ditch, and by a hedge of cedars beginning at a gate on the state road opposite the avenue to Home Cottage, and running directly to Allen's ditch, these to tracts containing 817 acres. Item 3 said Hillyard promised to pay W. W. Baugh, the sum of ten thousands dollars. Item 4 said Hillyard has no right to sell the schoolhouse on Home Cottage tract.

For a few years great grandfather lived in Petersburg. My friend, Mr. Well Barnes of near Spring Grove said that he helped them move. In Petersburg they lived on Wythe Street. My grandfather and his brother while in Petersburg attended MeCabes University School, a very fashionable boys school of that day. During the summer they visited their grandmother at "Cake bill". Here they loved to ride over the plantation on horseback. Several years ago I met a very charming lady who told me this little story. "I was walking home from school one day", she said, "when up came Willie Baugh, your grandfather, on horseback. He dismounted and kissed me - the first boy to kiss me." (This lady, an old friend of our family, was Mertie Harrison, who later was married to Dr. Shaum of Norfolk, Va.)

Another little incident that I think is worth remembering was told me by an old colored woman, Aunt Mary Smith. She said that after the war 1861-65 she lived at Cabin Point. The Baugh Brothers, Willie and Johnnie, used to drive past her place each school day in a buggy and two beautiful ponies. Our people have for generations loved horses.

On November 20, 1886, great grandfather Baugh died, his wife pretty Nannie Edwards survived him eleven years. I must not forget to tell that Cousin Albert Edwards Wilson of Norfolk said that she was the prettiest Edwards ever known. They were both buried in the family graveyard on "Cake Hill". To this union were born:

1. Little Willie Baugh.
2. John Cryer Baugh, 2nd.
3. William Wesley Baugh, 2nd.

1. Little Willie Baugh was born at "Oake Hill" in the year 1859.

2. John Cryer Baugh, 2nd, second son of William Wesley Baugh and Martha Ann Elizabeth Edwards, his Wife, was born at "Home Cottage", Surry County, October 27, 1860. He attended McCabes University School in Petersburg and died unmarried at "Oake Hill" July 16, 1889. Buried on Cake Hill.

3. William Wesley Baugh, third son of William Wesley Baugh and Martha Ann Elizabeth Edwards, his wife, was born at "Oake Hill Surry County, December 16, 1862. He attended McCabes University School in Petersburg. On January 31, 1884, he was married to Mattie Florence Ramey, at her father's home in Spring Grove. She was born at Spring Grove, the daughter of Joseph Ramey and Alice West, his wife. Her grandfather West (William Major) was sheriff of Surry County for over forty years. Her grandmother West was before her marriage, Lucy Caroline Warren, a direct descendant of Thomas Warren, the builder of the Warren or Rolf House neary Surry Courthouse.

Grandmother Baugh attended a finishing school run by a Mr. Warwick in Petersburg and took dancing lessons under a Prof. Griszel of the same city. (See Warren Family Lineage)

Occupation:
Guilford District, per census

William married EDWARDS Martha Ann Elizabeth on 18 Nov 1858 in Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States. Martha (daughter of EDWARDS William Henry and HOLT Elizabeth) was born on 11 Mar 1841; died in Nov 1897 in Spring Grove, Surry County, Va. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Nickname: Nannie

Notes:

Grandmother Baugh attended a finishing school run by a Mr. Warwick in Petersburg and took dancing lessons under a Prof. Griszel of the same city. (See Warren Family Lineage)

Notes:

Married:
Married at her father's home "Oakland", in Surry County

Joseph married WEST Alice. Alice (daughter of WEST William Major and WARREN Lucy Caroline) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]