Bio: William J. Beaird, Bossier, Natchitoches, & Caddo Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker



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William J. Beaird is a planter, residing in Ward No. 8, of Caddo Parish, 
La., but was born near Natchitoches in 1836, receiving his education in 
the country schools and at Marshall, Tex.  In 1862 he joined a company 
of Louisiana cavalry, but after a short service was discharged, on 
account of ill health, but supplied a substitute, and after recovering 
rejoined the service, and operated in Louisiana until the close of the 
war, participating in the fight at Mansfield and in numerous skirmishes.  
On December 29, 1858 his union to Miss Mary A., a daughter of Philip and 
P. C. May, took place, they having moved from Tennessee to Texas, thence 
to Bossier Parish, where Mr. May died prior to the war, his wife's death 
occurring in Caddo Parish.  To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Beaird a family 
of eleven children have been born, eight sons and one daughter being now 
alive.  Since his union Mr. Beaird has lived on a part of the old home 
farm, and is one of the leading and prosperous planters of this section 
of the country, in connection with which calling he conducts a 
plantation store.  His wife is a member of the Baptist Church.  (For a 
history of Mr. Beaird's parents see sketch of J. H. Beaird.)