Lovisa "Louisa" Baird

GEDCOM Note

Source: Beverly Branning Green, 4406 Island Drive, North Topsail Beach, NC 28460 910-328-0939 olsalte@aol.com

10-29-12 Hi, I made an error in saying your e-mail was osalte@charter.net. It did say osalte1@charter.net. It did say you were changing from osalte1@charter.net to brucebranning@gmail.com. As I mentioned earlier to you, I've been corresponding with a genealogist, Perry Streeter, who has been searching for his ancestor Louisa/Lovisa for 3 decades. He searched out six others which all ended in not being the one he was after. He now believes she is Parks Baird, Sr.'s sister, Lovisa and has done extensive research that almost assures us that it is. He's waiting for further documentation from the genealogist for the Streeter Family Association to visit Salt lake City to confirm this. If he is correct, Louisa married a Thomas Streeter. This Perry Streeter has published his research into the Streeter line in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. Now he wants to do this for the Baird family. If he is correct, he has connected the Baird line back another 3 or 4 generations to the time an Andrew Beard/Baird came from Scotland. It's all very exciting. When he mentioned he wanted to give me credit for my research, I told him that the credit belongs to you. He has now asked for your e-mail address so you can be included in on the e-mail conversation he is having with myself and a descendant of Aaron and Lucy's other son, which we have known as Alfrost. He now believes Alfrost's name is really Ai Frost. The descendant has gone through her research and has agreed. The Frost comes from Aaron Baird's mother, Susanna Frost's maiden name. Which e-mail address should I give this Perry Streeter? I hope this storm isn't causing you too many problems. Carol

If Louisa possibly m to a Streeter, genealogist trying to prove in Nov 2012.

Lovisa BAIRD Birth 8 Jun 1774inSalisbury Twp., Litchfield, Connecticut,

per Perry Streeter: If Louisa ___ Streeter was the sister of Parks Baird Sr. then she was also Anna Louisa's grand Aunt, which would make all descendants of Daniel & Annan Louise Baird Roberts cousins to all descendants of John T. & Elizabeth Streeter Dunn in 2 ways. (Dual Kinship)

GEDCOM Note

per Perry: (not to be published) SPECULATION! LOUISA (-) STREETER = LOUISA[5] BEARD (Aaron[4-3], John[2], Andrew[1])

Did Louisa/Lovisa[5] Beard, daughter of Aaron[4] and Lucy (Parks?) Beard, become the wife of Baptist Minister Thomas1 Streeter of Steuben County, New York who also resided in Windham (since 1813, Lexington), Greene County, New York on a seasonal or other part-time basis from as early as 1796 through as late as 1807?

The Catskill Turnpike (Æ) (+) passed through the Town of Greene in Chenango County, New York, approximately half-way between Greene County, New York and Bath, Steuben County, New York. Thomas1 Streeter must have made numerous trips between Bath and Greene County between 1796 and 1808 and probably travelled this route. Even today, Google Maps directs one to pass through Greene, Chenango County when walking from Bath to Lexington. Thus, whether Louisa/Lovisa Beard/Baird was was residing in Chenango County with her parents, Aaron and Lucy (Parks?) Beard and/or her brother , Ai Frost Beard, in Greene, Chenango County or whether she was residing in Greene County with her brother Parks Baird, she had the potential to be introduced to Thomas1 Streeter in either location. For more information on why Baptist Minister Thomas Streeter may have had more than just a passing acquaintance with Chenango County, please see the next section.

Thomas2 Streeter was the eldest child of Thomas1 and Louisa (-) Streeter; he married Elizabeth "Betsey" Burleson. Betsey's maternal grandparents, Ichabod Tubbs (1759-1832) and Sybil (-) Tubbs (1770-1847), as well as Ichabod's parents, were buried in the Town of Greene, Chenango County; the Tremain Cemetery lies less than two miles away, on the same road, as the Tillotson Cemetery, where Lucy (Parks?) Beard is buried! Is it possible that both of my Streeter great-great-great grandparents' maternal grandmothers, Lucy (Parks?) Beard and Sybil (-) Tubbs, are buried in such close proximity to each other? Was Thomas Streeter introduced to Betsey Burleson because his (possible) uncle, Ai Beard (and/or his mother, Louisa?), had been acquainted with Betsey's family in Greene?!

Mary Ann2 (Streeter) Ellsworth, daughter of Thomas1 and Louisa (-) Streeter, married Alanson R. Ellsworth say 1839; they named their eldest son Aaron D. Ellsworth. Alanson was born in Greene County, New York in 1812. Alanson's father, Joshua Ellsworth, was enumerated in Greeneville, Greene County, New York in the 1810 and 1830 Federal Census records but settled in Italy, Yates County, New York by 1840. In 1810, the household of "Parks Beard" was enumerated in Greeneville approximately 10 lines before that of "Joshua Alsworth." Italy, in Yates County where Alanson's father resided in 1840 is approximately 34 miles from Canisteo, in Steuben County where Mary Ann's' mother resided in 1840. Was Mary Ann Streeter introduced to Alanson Ellsworth because her (possible) maternal uncle, Parks Baird, her (possible) maternal first cousin, David Beard of Greene County, (and/or her mother, Louisa?), had been acquainted with the Ellsworth family in Greeneville?!

Ruth2 (Streeter) Kenfield was the youngest daughter of Thomas1 and Louisa (-) Streeter; she and her descendants were responsible for the creation and/or preservation of the original family records presented above. Ruth named her last child and only daughter Lucina Ruth Louisa/Lovica Kenfield; she was obviously named in honor of her mother and her maternal grandmother. Did the genealogically-minded Ruth also intend to honor her own maternal grandmother, Lucy (Parks?) Beard, with the use of Lucina? The use of three given names in the mid-1800s strikes me as unusual-did she use three names for all three generations because she was afraid that she might not have another daughter? Lucy and Lucina are both derived from lux, the Latin word for "light."

Aaron[4] Beard's first cousin, Abner[4] Beard (Ithamer[3], John[2], Andrew[1]), born 1795, was probably the Abner Beard enumerated in the 1830 Federal Census in Lexington, Greene County, New York just six households away from William2 Streeter (nephew of Thomas1 Streeter who may have acquired Thomas's property in Lexington 1803-1810) and "William Falkner" (husband of Elizabeth Streeter, the sister of Thomas1 Streeter). Aaron[4] Beard's first cousin, Amariah Foster, son of John Foster and his wife, Anna Beard (Aaron[3]), was at Coxsackie, Greene County in 1816. (+) And what was the ancestry of the Roswell Beard enumerated at Coxsackie, Greene, NY in the 1810 Federal Census?

One potential match for Lucy (Parks?) Baird/Beard is LUCY[4] PARKS (Ephraim[3], Richard[2-1]). On 10 November 2012, I discovered that a first cousin of Lucy[4] Parks resided in Greene County, New York in 1801-the same year that Parks[5] Baird was married there in Greeneville. LT. JONAS[4] PARKS (Jonathan[3], Richard[2-1]) was born in Pomfret, Windham County, Connecticut 1738; taxed in Coxsackie 1787; died in Coxsackie, Greene County, New York before 3 January 1801 (will). Jonas's son Samuel was married in a Baptist Church in Bagnall, Dutchess County, New York. Jonas's son William died in Greenville, Greene County, New York; as did Jonas's daughter, Mary (Parks) Thorne. (+) Was the presence of this Parks family in Greeneville a factor in Parks Baird residing there for approximately a decade? Did Aaron & Lucy (Parks) Beard and/or Ai Frost Beard (and/or Louisa Beard?) reside in Greeneville or elsewhere in Greene County during their migration from New England to Chenango County, New York? However, other evidence suggests that Lucy (Parks?) Baird/Beard may have descended from Robert1 Parke of Stonington, New London, Connecticut because a branch of this immigrant's family, some of whose members were sometimes recorded as Parks, resided in Salisbury, Litchfield Co., CT and migrated Windham (now Lexington), Greene Co., NY; one descendant married a member of the same Baptist Congregation that Thomas Streeter's sister belonged to in Windham (see revised content below).

Elizabeth2 (Streeter) Dunn was the eldest daughter of Thomas1 and Louisa (-) Streeter; she married John T.4 Dunn (Joseph3, William2, James1) about about 1829. I did not realize until 11 March 2013 that Carol Ogaranko's great-great-grandmother, Anna Louisa[6] Baird (Parks[6-5], Aaron[4]%29 married Daniel Roberts about 1861; he was the son of Mehitable5 (Dunn) Roberts (William4 Dunn, Thomas3, William2, James1) and she did not die until 1870. Parks[6] Baird [Jr.] had already died in 1859 but Parks[5] Baird [Sr.], who died 1 April 1861 was possibly still living. If Louisa (-) Streeter was the sister of Parks[5] Baird then she was also Anna Louisa's grand aunt which would obviously make all descendants of Daniel and Anna Louisa (Baird) Roberts both Dunn and Baird/Beard cousins to all descendants of John T. and Elizabeth (Streeter) Dunn. Given the geographical and chronological distances involved, I doubt that anyone then living was aware of each other's existence, much less kinship.