Elizabeth Laird Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Wingville, Biographical Sketches, Page 995-996

Mrs. Elizabeth Laird, widow of Thomas Laird, who was born in Ireland Nov. 15, 
1815.  He emigrated with his parents to Philadelphia, when a child, and where he 
resided till he had reached manhood.  He was married to Mrs. Laird, then 
Elizabeth Twining, daughter of John Twining, born in Bucks Co., Penn., May 2, 
1819.  They were married July 23, 1835.  About 1835, they removed to Delaware, 
where Mr. Laird was engaged in a cotton factory; they removed to Illinois about 
1842; they settled at Galena in 1844, and came to Grant Co. about 1846; settled 
in Wingville about 1850.  Mr. Laird was engaged in various occupations.  He died 
in 1877.  Mrs. Laird has three sons and five daughters - Sarah (now Mrs. Ira 
Scofield), Nancy (now Mrs. Thomas DeWitt), Sophronia, Susan (now Mrs. Robert 
Moran), Thomas, Jessie F., Freemont and Seward.  Thomas was born in Wingville 
October, 1853; is engaged in civil engineering.  Mrs. Laird has lost five 
children; all died in infancy except Mrs. Thomas Lincoln.