When King Hiram Baird was born on 11 August 1811, in Ashe, North Carolina, United States, his father, P. William Baird, was 27 and his mother, Nancy Pullen, was 27. He married Minerva Killen in 1832, in Lyles, Hickman, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Hickman, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years and Tennessee, United States in 1870. He registered for military service in 1844. He died in July 1897, in Lyles, Hickman, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Free Cemetery, Bumpus Mills, Stewart, Tennessee, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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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.
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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