Joab Laird (1794 - 1862)

Born 1794 in Barnwell, South Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Quick (Todd) Laird — married 1815 (to 1842) in Randolph, Illinois

Husband of Elsie Alice (Flint) Laird — married 7 Feb 1844 in Randolph, Illinois, United States

Descendants

Died 18 Jan 1862 at about age 68 in Wyalusing, Grant, Wisconsin, United States

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Biography

Joab, who often went by the name of "Joe Abner" was born in Barnwell, South Carolina in 1794 to Adam Laird and Lucretia Creasy,

Joab married Margaret Quick Todd in Randolf County, Illinois in the year 1815. His brother, John, married Margaret's sister, Lydia that same year. The sister's father, Joseph Todd, named John Lard (a.k.a. Laird) their guardians upon his death in 1820. This is documented by probate records in the Missouri State Archives ^[1] A summary of the estate left to Lydia and Margaret is as follows:

''Received of John E. Allen admistrator of the goods and estate of JOSEPH TODD, deceased intestate the sum of one hundred and one dollars it being in full (or part discharged as the case may be when the estate is settled up) of the distribution shares coming to LYDIA TODD and MARGARET TODD (at present LYDIA LARD and MARGARET LARD, wives of JOHN and JOAB LARD) daughters and heiresses of the said JOSEPH TODD. As witness my hand this 29th day of March 1820. $101. ^[2]

Marriage to Elsie Alice Flint ^[3]

Homesteads and Land Purchases:

Wisconsin Homestead and Cash Entry Patent issued on 10 Nov 1855 to Joab Laird by the Ashland Land Office for 80 acres of land. A sale/cash entry was for property described as: 1 E½SW 4TH PM - 1831 MINNESOTA/WISCONSIN No 6 N 6 W 32. ^[4]

Illinois Public Lands Purchases record a purchase by Joab Laird on 9 Apr 1840, of 40 acres at $1.25 per acre (total of $50). The land description is Section SESE, Recorded Volume 31, page 185, type FD, Section 24, Township: 065, range O6W, Meridian 3, Corr-tag 0, ID: 387071, Reside:079. ^[5]

Sources

• Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

• United States, Bureau of Land Management. Wisconsin, Homestead and Cash Entry Patents, Pre-1908 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997. Original data: United States, Bureau of Land Management. Wisconsin Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patent and Cadastral Survey Plat Index. General Land Office Automated Records Project.

• Ancestry.com. Illinois, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Illinois Census, 1810-1890. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.

• Year: 1840; Census Place: , Randolph, Illinois; Roll: 68; Page: 241; Image: 489; Family History Library Film: 0007645. Original data: Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

• Dodd, Jordan. Illinois Marriages to 1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997. Original data: Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individual counties in Illinois.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Missouri State Archives. St. Louis Probate Court Digitalization Project 1802-1900. Case #00274, Date filed 1812, Microfilm Reel C27456. Collection #5, Document #5 101.
2. ↑ Missouri State Archives, Missouri Judicial Index Database. St. Louis Probate Court 1816-1901 Guardianship Records: Executor JOHN LARD; File: TODD, LIDIA et al. Date filed 1816..Box 2 Folder 21 Microfilm Reel #C39006. Courtesy of genealogy records of Dan & Marilyn Devaney. Copied by Shirley Quick Van Lear.
3. ↑ Dodd, Jordan. Illinois Marriages to 1850 [database on-line].
4. ↑ Document number: 18432, Sequence 1; Statutory reference: 3 Stat. 566, Treaty/act: April 24, 1820.
5. ↑ State of Illinois. Illinois, Public Land Purchase Records, 1813-1909 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.

Acknowledgments

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