Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Baird, Dr. James W., 1915 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ DR. JAMES W. BAIRD Dr. James W. Baird, aged sixty-eight [sic*] years committed suicide at his home near Waverly, Surry County, yesterday evening. He had been in bad health for some time and this is given as the cause of his act. Dr. Baird used a pistol, and death was instantaneous. Dr. James Walter BAIRD, physician & farmer, b. 25 Aug 1849, Surry Co., suicide 30 Nov 1915, at home, Surry Co., near Waverly, interred in the family cemetery, 2 Dec 1915, "The Alexandria (VA) Gazette," Vol. 131, No. 282, Dec. 2, 1915 *Additional information: Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. #29766 (Guilford #11), which gives sn/o Alexander P. Baird (b. Sussex Co.) & Rebecca [A.] Booth (b. Surry Co.); Farmer - Tiller of the soil. He m. 31 Aug 1875, in Portsmouth, "Mollie" Mary Sue Hasty, dt/o Edwin T. & A.H. Hasty. (FamilySearch.org "Virginia Marriages") Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Carolyn Keen (VAHistoricHouses@aol.com) & Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/b630j10o.txt