Biographical Sketch of Peter Lair, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Rev. Peter Lair, minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Brush
Creek Township, Wright Co., Mo., was born in Georgia in 1830, and his
mother's name was Letty May.  She married a man by the name of Nero, 
who was the father of our subject, Peter Lair.  Mr. Lair was sold out 
of the Weaver family, to whom his mother, by transfer, belonged, and 
was bought by a family by the name of Lair, hence his name.  He lived
with them until the time of the emancipation, and was set free in 
Dallas County, Tex.  He then went to work and earned $2 plowing.  He 
has preached since he was eighteen years of age; has taught school and
preached at Springfield.  He drove a six mule team through to Spring-
field for a man, in order to get his wife through to that city.  In
1866 he purchased three acres of land on St. Louis Street, in Spring-
field, and lived there for seventeen years.  He came to Missouri in
1880, and has 160 acres of land.  He sold out of three acres, $2,545
worth of property, and owns about $1,000 worth of property there yet.
Since the war he has preached nearly every week.  He has preached in
the Kansas City Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and was absent just
lately on a tour through a number of the states, but was in Topeka,
Kas., for seven weeks.  He was married to Miss Fanny Carson, who was a
native of Butler County, Ky.  Her mother belonged to a family by the 
name of Carson, and her father to a family by the name of Porter.  She
was with her husband in Dallas County, Tex., when first set free.  She
earned her first money by spinning and knitting.  They have never had
any children of their own, but have several adopted children; one,
George Lair, is the nephew of Mr. Lair.

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