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Submitted: 2/13/22 • Approved: 2/13/22 • Last Updated: 2/16/22 • R490401-G490400-S3
H. C. “Mike”
1890-1970
Mason
Mary Hill
1893-1979
Order of Eastern Star
*Photo, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary H. C. “Mike”
HEREFORD - Funeral services for Horace Cooper "Mike" Baird, 79, of Hereford, who died Tuesday while visiting in Corpus Christi, were to be at 2 p.m. today in the First Presbyterian Church.
The Rev. Russell Wingert, pastor, was to officiate. Burial was to be in West Park Cemetery by Gilliland Funeral Home.
Mr. Baird, a native of Grayson County, came to the Panhandle as a child in 1892 when his parents started a Randall County farm. They moved to Deaf Smith County and homesteaded two sections of land in 1900.
He attended Hereford schools and played on the school's first football team. He moved into Hereford in 1960.
He was a member of the Hereford Masonic Lodge and the First Presbyterian Church in Hereford.
Survivors include his wife, Mary; a son, J.R. "Bob" Baird of Seattle, Wash.; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Ann King of Corpus Christi, eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
(Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times (Amarillo, Texas) - 29 Jan 1970, Thu - Page 11)
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U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Horace Cooper Baird
Race: Caucasian (White)
Marital status: Married
Birth Date: 27 Dec 1890
Birth Place: Texas, USA
Residence Date: 1917-1918
Residence Place: Deaf Smith County, Texas, USA
Physical Build: Medium
Height: Medium
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Light Brown
U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
Name: Horace Cooper Baird
Gender: Male
Residence Age: 52
Birth Date: 27 Dec 1890
Residence Date: 1942
Residence Place: Dimmitt, Texas, USA
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Horace Baird
Death Date: 28 Jan 1970
Death County: Nueces
Gender: Male
*Mary
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Mary Hill Baird
[Mary Hill Hill]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 85
Birth Date: 18 Nov 1893
Birth Place: Texas
Residence: Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, USA
Death Date: 28 Aug 1979
Death Place: Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, USA
Father: John Hill
Mother: Fanny Bond
Contributed on 2/13/22 by neldapat
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