Ida Katherine Minear Baird 1871-1929

BAIRD, MINEAR, PEARSON

Posted By: Karen DaPra (email)
Date: 5/28/2002 at 00:08:07

Ida Katherine Minear, daughter of George W. and Emma Pearson Minear, was born June 8, 1871 on the farm near Kilbourne, Iowa. She graduated from Iowa Wesleyan college in 1897. She taught three years and was then married to Dr. J. Baird in the home in which she was born. They moved to Silver Creek, Neb., where they lived four years, then moved to Coffeyville, Kansas, where she has since made her home for twenty four years.

She died Saturday evening, April 27, at 8 o'clock at the family home, 102 West First street, as the result of a heart disorder, following ten years of failing health.

She is survived by her husband, a son, Bruce Baird of Wood River, Ill., two daughters, Miss Byrle Baird, a teacher in the Udall high school, and Miss Lois Katherine Baird, student in high school. She also leaves two brothers and one sister, A. Bruce Minear of Miami, Fla., and A. C. Minear of Kilbourne, Iowa, and Miss Anna Minear of Lilbourne, Iowa.

The pall bearers mere [sic] Messrs. Ellis Bowser, A. D. Gise, Edmund Euday, Roy Clossen, Dick Wilson and Harry Passmore. Interment was made in Fairview cemetery.

(Photocopy of this obit is located on page 141 of Obit Book A found in the Van Buren County, IA Genealogical Society's collection at the Keosauqua Public Library in Oct 2000. Name of newspaper and date of obit not given.)

NOTE: Ida Katherine Minear is found in the Latter Day Saints records as AFN 1403-CTR. Here you will find she had seven siblings including brothers Adam Bruce and Augustus Clay listed in her obituary above. Her husband is shown as Jay Baird.

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[Original post 02 Dec 2000]