Ohio County KyArchives Obituaries.....Baird, Judge Alexander Barnett March 20, 1892
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Hartford Republican Newspaper - Friday, 25 Mar 1892
JUDGE BAIRD DEAD

THE REAPER OF DEATH HAS AGAIN VISITED OUR TOWN AND TAKEN AWAY ONE OF OUR 
OLDEST AND BEST CITIZENS.  ALEXANDER BARNETT BAIRD WAS BORN IN THIS COUNTY, 
FEBRUARY 21, 1821, DIED MARCH 20, 1892.  AT THE AGE OF 21 HE WAS APPOINTED 
DEPUTY SHERIFF OF OHI COUNTY, AND IN 1851 HE WAS ELECTED JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, 
BEING ONE OF THE FIRST TO SERVE UNDER THE NEW CONSITUTION, BUT RESIGNED TO 
TAKE HIS SEAT AS COUNTY JUDGE TO WHICH POSITION HE WAS ELECTED IN 1854, 
HOLDING THAT OFFICE TWO TERMS – 8 YEARS; IN 1861 HE WAS ENGAGED IN THE TOBACCO 
BUSINESS HERE AS AN AGENT FOR A NEW YORK FIRM.  SINCE THEN HE HAS BEEN ENGAGED 
IN CIVIL ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING BUSINESS.  HE WAS A PROMINENT MEMBER OF THE 
C.P. CHURCH, IN WHICH HE STOOD HIGH, HAVING REPRESENTED THAT CHURCH IN A 
GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT KEESPORT, PA.
ON DECEMBER 24, 1844, HE WAS MARRIED TO MISS SALLIE M. BARNETT AND IS THE 
FATHER OF COL. C.T. BAIRD, OF LOUISVILLE; DR. A.B. BAIRD, OF THIS TOWN, AND 
THE FATHER-IN LAW OF GEN. SAM E. HILL, OF LEXINGTON.  HE WAS BURIED IN THE 
HARTFORD CEMETERY MONDAY AT 3 P.M. IN THE PRESENCE OF A LARGE CROWD OF 
SORROWING FRIENDS AND RELATIVES.



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