Ida Blanche Baird 1873 - 1956

BAIRD, FARIS, MEHAFFY

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Date: 12/8/2014 at 19:56:56

The Morning Sun News-Herald

Funeral Services for Mrs. Ida Baird

Funeral services for Mrs. Ida Baird, 83, lifelong resident of the Morning Sun community, were held Monday afternoon (December 10, 1956) in the Sharon Reformed Presbyterian church. Mrs. Baird died at the Harmony nursing home in Mediapolis where she had been a patient for the past six months. Final rites were in charge of the Reverend J. O. Edgar, pastor of the Sharon church. He was assisted by the Reverend J. E. McElroy, pastor of the Morning Sun Reformed Presbyterian church. Burial was in Sharon cemetery.

Ida Baird Farris, daughter of Nancy Mehaffy and Joshua Farris, was born on a farm in the Sharon community on November 21, 1873. She grew up in that community and at an early age united with the Sharon congregation of the Reformed Presbyterian church. Throughout her life she was faithful in her attendance to her church and never missed services unless it was physically impossible for her to be there.

On January 20, 1898, she was united in marriage to Joseph W. Baird. To this union there were born nine children: Howard, of Bloomington, Indiana; Mrs. Earl (Harriett) Pogemiller of Burlington; Cecil of Omaha; Bruce, of Sperry; Orville, of Griffith, Indiana; Robert, Rodman and Paul, all of Morning Sun.

One son and her husband are dead. Other survivors include a twin sister, Mrs. Ina Samson, Washington, Iowa, twenty-seven grandchildren and twenty-one great-grandchildren.