CALVIRD OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri ==================================================================== CALVIRD, Charles A. Sr. 1854 - 1936 Charles A. Calvird, Sr., former judge of the 29th Judicial Circuit died at his home in Clinton, Thursday, April 30. Charles A. Calvird, Sr., was born on a farm in St. Clair county, Mo., April 27, 1854. He received his early education in the country schools of St. Clair county and taught school for three years, studying law while thus engaged. He moved to Clinton in 1872. He was elected in 1910 to the judgship of the 29th Judicial Circuit, comprising the counties of Henry, St. Clair, Bates and Benton. He served on the bench three terms, or eighteen years, retiring in 1928. In 1934 his only son, Charles A. Calvird, Jr., was elected Circuit Judge and he felt a great pride in this honor being given to his son. Judge Calvird is survived by his wife and one son, Charles A. Calvird, Jr., an only daughter, Miss Enid Calvird, died in 1931. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at his home and burial took place in the Clinton cemetery. Honorary pall bearers were members of the Bar Association of Henry county. CALVIRD, Charles Bascom - 1895 - 1936 Clinton MO, Mar 1936 - Charles B. Calvird Meets Tragic Death By Fire - Cousin of Judge C. A. Calvird, Jr., Was Trapped in Log Cabin at Ellington, Mo., Where He Was Foreman of a CCC Camp - Judge C. A. Calvird, Jr., received the tragic news by phone at 8 a.m. Wednesday of the death of his cousin, Charles B. Calvird, at Ellington, Mo., Deer Run Park, where he was a foreman of the CCC camp. He was trapped in the log cabin, his living quarters, which caught fire and the body was found near the door which it is thought he reached, but was unable to make his escape. The exact time and circumstances were unknown at press time. Mrs. Calvird who had been two weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gillilan, at Urich, and Mrs. Frank Calvird of the Mount Carmel neighborhood, had left an hour before the message was received to return to Ellington. Her father and Mr. Calvird's mother are both ill and she had been helping care for them. Miss Virginia Calvird, Jud and Virgil Gillilan left about 11 a.m. Wednesday for Ellington, accompanied by the Spore ambulance, to bring the body home. Charles Bascom Calvird was born December 3rd, 1895 on the Calvird farm eight miles west of Clinton, the youngest son of the late Frank Calvird and Annie Boyd Calvird. He was a fine son, reared in the Presbyterian faith, and near twenty years ago married Mamie Gillilan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gillilan, and established a home on the edge of Bates county, where he was a most successful farmer. Three years ago he became interested in CCC camp work in which he was efficient and able, having served as foreman in camps at Princeton and Salem, Mo., and a year ago was moved to Ellington. He was in line for a superintendent's job at the time of his untimely death. Charles Calvird was a splendid man, of fine physique, handsome, and of affable and pleasant disposition that made him beloved by a host of friends. One of his life long admirers said "He got the most out of life of any man I ever knew". He loved to hunt and his bird dogs were highly bred and of great importance to him. He was a Worthy Mason and an active Democrat, prominent in party politics. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Mamie Calvird, his beloved invalid mother, Mrs. Annie Calvird; sisters, Miss Virginia Calvird of the home; Mrs. Nettie Calvird of Clinton and Mrs. Lucy Rogers of Kansas City; brothers, Frank, northeast of LaDue and Samuel Joseph of Stratford, Texas. The body will be laid to rest in Englewood but the funeral arrangements will not be made until the return of his wife and sister from Ellington. CALVIRD, Flavia Ann LINDSAY 1855 - 1953 Clinton Daily Democrat - Nov 12 1953 - Mrs. Flavia Calvird Dies At The Age of 98 - She Was Widow Of The Late Judge Chas. Calvird, Sr. - Funeral services for Mrs. Flavia Ann Calvird, 98, prominent and well-known Clinton lady, were held Monday afternoon with the Rev. Mark S. Horn, pastor of the Clinton Methodist Church officiating. Burial was in Englewood cemetery, with the Consalus Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Flavia Ann Calvird, the widow of Charles A. Calvird, Sr., died at Clinton, Missouri, on November 6, 1953. She had recently passed her 98th birthday. Mrs. Calvird was a daughter of James Madison Lindsay and Nancy L. Lindsay. Her father was born in Rockingham County, North Carolina in the year 1817 and her mother, whose maiden name was Nancy C. Stone, was born in the same county on January 27, 1820. Mrs. Calvird's parents were a part of a considerable number of people who came out to Missouri from North Carolina in the year 1839 and settled in Henry County and other counties of Missouri. Her father and his brother, Reuben Taylor Lindsay settled six miles north of Clinton where they patented from the United States Government large tracts of land. It was on the land of her father that Flavia Ann Lindsay was born in September 22, 1855. Here the family lived through the four stormy years of the war between the states. Here Mrs. Calvird spent her childhood. Her father died near the close of the war and she and her mother left the farm in the spring of 1867 and moved to Clinton. There were no public schools in Clinton at that time, but a Miss Marvin conducted a private school on North Washington Street and Mrs. Calvird attended this private school. From 1870 to 1874 she attended Central College, a Methodist school for young women at Lexington, Missouri, where she graduated in the spring of 1874. This school has long since been discontinued. On March 30th, 1881, she was united in marriage with Charles A. Calvird, a young lawyer, who had come to Clinton to engage in the practice of law. Her husband died in April of 1936. To this union were born two children, Enid Calvird, a teacher in the Clinton High School for many years until her death in 1931, and Charles A. Calvird, Jr. a Clinton attorney who survives her. For 80 years Mrs. Calvird lived in one house, her home property at 303 North Second Street, Clinton, Missouri. She was a member of the Methodist Church. Prior to the merger of the three branches of this church Mrs. Calvird had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, since the reorganization of that church in Clinton, in the year 1867. She was a devout woman, an ardent church worker during her active years, and took a great interest in her church and in its activities. She was a tireless Bible student, read it daily as long as her eyesight permitted, since which time her son has read it aloud to her in its entirety. Until later months as her memory failed, she could repeat from memory many of its chapters. She owned two Bibles of unusual interest by reason of their age, one of which contained the family record extending back to 1767. Mrs. Calvird was the wife and mother of circuit judges. Her husband was judge of the 29th Judicial Circuit of Missouri from 1910 to 1928 and her son was judge of the same circuit from 1935 to 1941. Mrs. Calvird is survived by her son, Charles A. Calvird, two nieces, Mrs. Minnie Kitchen and Mrs. Josephine Hackman, both of Webster Groves, Missouri, and several hundred relatives in Henry and adjoining counties, the descendants of those who, with her parents, came out to settle in Missouri more than a century ago. CALVIRD, William B. 1843 - 1919 William B. Calvird, brother of Judge C. A. Calvird, passed away at his home near Neosho, Wednesday night of last week, after being in failing health for some time from complications. Deceased was a native of Kentucky, where he was born November 18, 1843. In 1870, he came to Clinton and engaged in the hotel business, which he continued until he was appointed deputy sheriff in Henry county in 1873. After serving 3 years as such, he was elected sheriff in 1876, after 1 term was re-elected and served until Jan. 1881. From that time he was occupied in the clerical work in the recorder's office until Dec. 1881, when he became bookkeeper and assistant cashier of the Henry County Bank. After the Henry County Bank quit business he went on a farm just north of Clinton, where Millard Lane resides, where he lived until about 15 years ago when he moved to Neosho. He lived on a very attractive farm there and did a dairy business. He was a member of the M. E. church South, and was for many years superintendent of the Sunday school here. He was married April 27, 1867, to Miss Sarah J. Pollard, a native of this State, who survives him, with one son, John Calvird, who lives in Kansas City. He took his sister's children and raised them, when both of their parents died. Those children are: J. H. Price, of Clinton; Anna and Effie, of Chicago and Bob Price, who was just a tiny baby when they took him. He is now a railroad engineer and runs out of Neosho. Judge Calvird was called to the bedside of his brother the day he died and remained until after the funeral, which was conducted last Friday. F. M. Calvird, 10 miles west of Clinton; his granddaughter, Miss Elizabeth Calvird, and his sister, Mrs. Mary Sever, also attended the funeral. ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by the Henry County MOGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~mohenry/henryco.html Contact the Henry County Coordinator for comments or corrections. ====================================================================