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Joseph Laird
19 June 1842 - 28 March 1915 (Ancestral File Number: 3WZL-DNM) View Individual Summary
his family:
Warren Edward Laird birth: 1867 death: before 1925
James Ezra Laird birth: April 1871 death: from 1919 to 1925
Isletta Maud D. Laird birth: 4 November 1873 death: 23 April 1907
Myrtie D. Laird birth: 1878 death: before 1910
Their Father:
Joseph Laird
birth: 19 June 1842 Indianna (?) death: 28 March 1915 Algona, Iowa more
His spouse:
Eunice S. Thurston born in NY.
birth: 12 December 1842 marriage: 1 January 1865 death: 23 May 1918
Alexander Laird
birth: about 1812 in Scotland. Scotland death: 1856 Jones County, Hale Township, Iowa
Jane Miller
birth: about 1815 Ohio death: about 1865 Ohio
Joseph Laird
birth: about 1781 in Scotland. death: before 7 April 1845
Ellen Elleanor Morrison
birth: about 1781 death:
Additional Information for Joseph Laird
Notes (1)
In the 1850 Federal Census, Joseph is listed with his parents in Clinton County, Iowa, Liberty Township. He is listed as 10 years old, meaning he would have been born in 1840. All other records list his birth year as 1842. The 1870 Census lists Joseph's birthplace as Indiana. He was born in either Wayne City, IN, or Carroll City, IN. The family was in Wayne City in 1840 and Carroll City in 1843. he moved to Hale Twp. with his parents and lived there until the family moved to Grundy County, IA in 1881. oseph was a farmer in Jones City, IA, and Grundy County. All of the death reports say however, that LIscomb, in Marshall County, IA, which border Grundy Co., was their home town previous to Algona. Both Joseph and Eunice are buried in Liscomb. The family moved to Algona, Kossuth County, IA, in 1893. They lived two years near Irvington on the old Haggard farm. Then they purchased a farm in Plum Creek. After two years they sold this farm and moved to Algona in 1888. Joseph worked for his brother James R. in the furnituire business and carried the mails for a few years before purchasing the Hall Hotel on State Street where the Paine Drug Store stood in 1913. (Near the post ofice). He renamed it the Algona Hotel. In 1910 this building was torn down. He then bought the Tennant Hotel building on South Thorington Street and reopened it as the Old Algona Hotel. In 1913 Theo Carroll leased the hotel. Joseph and Eunice lived in the North Annex wing of the building until his death in 1915. Liscom is the home of Eunice's relatives, the Thurstons. Joseph is buried next to Phoebe Thurston, his wife's mother. Date of funeral Marsh 31, 1915. His son, Warren E. Laird, was the undertaker.
Citing This Record
"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/93MD-B9S : accessed 2014-07-08), entry for Joseph Laird, submitted by sparnell2728991.
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