James William Baird

Payette Enterprise
April 22, 1926

James William Baird was born in Missouri October 28, 1857. He died very suddenly April 20, 1926.

He crossed the plains in 1863 and settled in Union, Oregon. Here he resided until 1886 when he was married to Hattie A. Perry at Emmett. The rest of his life was spent in the Payette and Boise Valleys. At the time of his death he lived at Pleasant Ridge, Caldwell. He leaves to mourn his loss his widow, two sons, Earl R. of Marble Front, M. P. of Wilder, and a daughter, Mrs. E. E. Pennington of Caldwell, 4 grand-children, also one brother Geo Baird of Union, Ore., a sister Mary Brannon of Reno, Nev., and a sister Suson Bristol of Oakland, California.