Monday, August 21, 2006

Rev. H.R. Laird

Caucasian minister, Rev. H.R. Laird officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1878 -
Thomas Lee & Lucy L. Johnson, 11/7/1878
1882 -
Robert J. Taylor & Anna Yancy, 12/21/1882
1883 -
Marshall Trice & Mary Ludington, 4/3/1883

(Note that in the 1880 census, Henry L. Laird appears in Monroe County, Wolf Creek as a White Male Clergyman, age 38, b. in Va., with his wife, Sarah (WF-35, keeping house) & his children John H. (7) Lilla P. (5), and Henry R. (3)).

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