Eliza Baird

Brief Life History of Eliza

When Eliza Baird was born on 2 March 1819, in Tennessee, United States, her father, P. William Baird, was 35 and her mother, Nancy Pullen, was 35. She married Francis Connor after 12 May 1837.

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Family Time Line

Francis Connor
1815–1837
Eliza Baird
1819–
Marriage: after 12 May 1837

Sources (1)

  • Chancery Court Minutes: Hickman. Court Minutes 1854–1873

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World Events (8)

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

1835 · The Hermitage is Built

The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

Name Meaning

Scottish:

from a common pronunciation of Bard in Scotland.

occupational name from Gaelic bàrd ‘bard, poet, minstrel’, or of Gaelic Mac an Baird ‘son of the bard’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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