Clay County MO Archives Obituaries.....Bird, Greenup March 12, 1882
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Liberty Weekly Tribune, Mar 17, 1882
   Greenup Bird, a pioneer citizen of Liberty, died in Kansas City, on the 12th 
inst., having been stricken on the 5th inst. with paralysis.  His death was 
very deeply regretted by his hosts of old Clay county friends, with whom he 
lived and had pleasant business and social intercourse for so many years.  He 
was born in Glasgow, Barren county, Ky., Oct. 30th, 1809.  Removed with his 
father about 1816 to Tennessee, and in 1818 they moved to the "Boone's Lick 
Country," (then territory of Missouri), and settled at Franklin, Howard county, 
and at the age of about 13, quit school and began keeping store for Robert 
Hood; then for Barr, Tilton & Howard; then for James Scott, and next for Bird & 
Gaw, being with the last named firm in 1828, and going to Philadelphia and 
Baltimore and buying the stock of goods in company with other gentlemen, for 
the firm, and traveling by horseback from Franklin to Louisville, Ky.  He came 
with his father to Clay county, and settled at Liberty March 31st, 1831, and 
began business with James and Robert Aull.  In 1836 with Bird & Glasgow, who 
succeeded the Aulls; then afterwards with Bird & McCarty; then with Geo. W. 
Sedwick.  He then moved to a farm where Kearney now stands, in 1843, and 
remained on it about one year, returning to Liberty in December, 1844, and 
commencing business with Arthur & Miller.  He was elected County Clerk of Clay 
county in 1846, and served until 1852, still continuing his connection with 
Arthur & Miller.  Miller, Bird & Gittings succeeded Arthur & Miller, and then 
Miller & Bird bought Miller, Bird & Gittings out.  About this time, Miller, 
Bird, and Wm. H. Wymore went into the hemp and rope business just east of 
Liberty, and conducted it several years profitably - under the firm name of 
Wymore, Bird & Co.  After this, in connection with Michael Arthur, he bought 
the Liberty Landing property, subsequently sold to John Baxter.  Then again, 
with Miller & Bird, subsequently changed (D.D. Miller becoming a partner) to 
Miller, Bird, & Co.  In 1855 he quit the mercantile business and sold out to 
Wm. A. McCarty, and accepted, in July, 1858, the position of cashier of the 
Farmers' Bank, (Branch at Liberty), and continued with it until 1864, when it 
was wound up.  In 1864 he removed to Leavenworth, Kan., and became cashier of 
the First National Bank, resigning in 1865, and returning to Liberty and 
becoming cashier of the Clay County Savings Association, which position he 
occupied until the spring of 1866, when he moved to Chillicothe, Mo., and 
became cashier of the Chillicothe Savings Association, with Dr. J.B. Bell (now 
of Kansas City) as president.  In 1874 he resigned as cashier at Chillicothe, 
and removed to Kansas City in the spring of 1875, where he lived until his 
death. 
  Mr. Bird was married at Franklin, Howard county, Missouri, March 11th, 1830, 
to Eleonora McCarty, who died in 1840.  In 1842 he married Catharine Wilson, a 
daughter of Wm. Pixlee, one of the pioneer settlers of Clay county.  His last 
wife still survives him.  He leaves ten living children, four by his first wife 
an six by his last, eight of whom were with him when he died.  Mr. Bird joined 
the Prebyterian Church in Liberty, in 1852, under the preaching of Rev. Nathan 
L. Hall, at a series of union meeting held at the Baptist Church.
  In the death of Mr. Bird a most worthy citizen has been taken from society.  
He was a gentleman by nature, of marked intelligence and busines capacity, and 
one who acted and thought for himself.  During his long residence in Clay 
county he was an active support of all enterprises calculated to benefit the 
people or build up the county, and he has probably given more to such things 
and to acts of charity than any man that ever lived in the county, in 
proportion to his means.  He was a man of strict integrity - his word being at 
all times as good as his bond - and even before he united with the Church, 
his "walk and conversation " was of an elevated character.  In his death, a 
loving husband and father, and a citizen of spotless character has gone from 
us, but he has left an example that will live long in the memory of those who 
knew him.
  His remains were brought to Liberty on Monday, (accompanied by an escort of 
leading citizens of Kansas City), and taken to the Presbyterian Church, (of 
which he was an Elder for many years), where an appropriate sermon was preached 
by Rev. J.G. Fackler, and at the close were taken to the Old Cemetery and 
buried beside those of his father, mother and children.

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