Father is John L. Laird and mother is Marion Calhoon Laird. Another child of these two and brother to James of this memorial is Walter L. Laird according to Clarke Eileen.
James and Chloe Laird, and their descendants. James Laird, settled in Sitkum in 1874,according to A Century of Coos and Curry by Emil R. Peterson and Alfred Powers. He married Chloe (Cook) Harry, widow of John Alva Harry and the mother of five children.
Chloe Harry and her husband had established the Half-way House in Sitkum. After their marriage, James and Chloe continued to operate the Half-way House on the Coos Bay Wagon Road.
From a newspaper article in the Myrtle Point Herald, Myrtle Point, Oregon, Thursday, Apr. 14, 1949 about John A. Harry:
"Back in the year 1852 when wagon trains (prairie schooners), drawn by oxen, were the only means of transportation between the eastern states and the great unknown wilderness of the West, among the hardy men and women who made up a certain wagon train from Iowa was a gangling boy of 18 years who was doing his "manfullest" best at "bull-whacking" and doing night guard duty to protect the train from possible attack by unfriendly Indians and other dangers that lurked on the trail of the pioneers. Also in that same wagon train was a young girl of 11 years by the name of Chloe Amelia Cook who was destined to become the life-partner of the gangling boy. In later years Chloe Amelia had many interesting stories to tell of her experiences coming across the plains, carrying water and gathering "buffalo chips" for fuel."
"John Alva Harry and Chloe Amelia Cook were married in 1857 in Lane county, just five years after their hazardous trip across the plains in the wagon train, he being 23 and his wife only 17. They moved at once to his land claim on the Coquille river, near Myrtle Point. They made this trip on horseback and, months afterwards, small bits of her dress could be seen where they caught on the wild rose thorns along the narrow trail over Sugar Loaf mountain. Mr. Harry was a resident of what is now Coos county three years before getting married."
James and Chloe Laird, and their descendants. James Laird, settled in Sitkum in 1874,according to A Century of Coos and Curry by Emil R. Peterson and Alfred Powers. He married Chloe (Cook) Harry, widow of John Alva Harry and the mother of five children.
Chloe Harry and her husband had established the Half-way House in Sitkum. After their marriage, James and Chloe continued to operate the Half-way House on the Coos Bay Wagon Road.
From a newspaper article in the Myrtle Point Herald, Myrtle Point, Oregon, Thursday, Apr. 14, 1949 about John A. Harry:
"Back in the year 1852 when wagon trains (prairie schooners), drawn by oxen, were the only means of transportation between the eastern states and the great unknown wilderness of the West, among the hardy men and women who made up a certain wagon train from Iowa was a gangling boy of 18 years who was doing his "manfullest" best at "bull-whacking" and doing night guard duty to protect the train from possible attack by unfriendly Indians and other dangers that lurked on the trail of the pioneers. Also in that same wagon train was a young girl of 11 years by the name of Chloe Amelia Cook who was destined to become the life-partner of the gangling boy. In later years Chloe Amelia had many interesting stories to tell of her experiences coming across the plains, carrying water and gathering "buffalo chips" for fuel."
"John Alva Harry and Chloe Amelia Cook were married in 1857 in Lane county, just five years after their hazardous trip across the plains in the wagon train, he being 23 and his wife only 17. They moved at once to his land claim on the Coquille river, near Myrtle Point. They made this trip on horseback and, months afterwards, small bits of her dress could be seen where they caught on the wild rose thorns along the narrow trail over Sugar Loaf mountain. Mr. Harry was a resident of what is now Coos county three years before getting married."
Father is John L. Laird and mother is Marion Calhoon Laird. Another child of these two and brother to James of this memorial is Walter L. Laird according to Clarke Eileen.
James and Chloe Laird, and their descendants. James Laird, settled in Sitkum in 1874,according to A Century of Coos and Curry by Emil R. Peterson and Alfred Powers. He married Chloe (Cook) Harry, widow of John Alva Harry and the mother of five children.
Chloe Harry and her husband had established the Half-way House in Sitkum. After their marriage, James and Chloe continued to operate the Half-way House on the Coos Bay Wagon Road.
From a newspaper article in the Myrtle Point Herald, Myrtle Point, Oregon, Thursday, Apr. 14, 1949 about John A. Harry:
"Back in the year 1852 when wagon trains (prairie schooners), drawn by oxen, were the only means of transportation between the eastern states and the great unknown wilderness of the West, among the hardy men and women who made up a certain wagon train from Iowa was a gangling boy of 18 years who was doing his "manfullest" best at "bull-whacking" and doing night guard duty to protect the train from possible attack by unfriendly Indians and other dangers that lurked on the trail of the pioneers. Also in that same wagon train was a young girl of 11 years by the name of Chloe Amelia Cook who was destined to become the life-partner of the gangling boy. In later years Chloe Amelia had many interesting stories to tell of her experiences coming across the plains, carrying water and gathering "buffalo chips" for fuel."
"John Alva Harry and Chloe Amelia Cook were married in 1857 in Lane county, just five years after their hazardous trip across the plains in the wagon train, he being 23 and his wife only 17. They moved at once to his land claim on the Coquille river, near Myrtle Point. They made this trip on horseback and, months afterwards, small bits of her dress could be seen where they caught on the wild rose thorns along the narrow trail over Sugar Loaf mountain. Mr. Harry was a resident of what is now Coos county three years before getting married."
James and Chloe Laird, and their descendants. James Laird, settled in Sitkum in 1874,according to A Century of Coos and Curry by Emil R. Peterson and Alfred Powers. He married Chloe (Cook) Harry, widow of John Alva Harry and the mother of five children.
Chloe Harry and her husband had established the Half-way House in Sitkum. After their marriage, James and Chloe continued to operate the Half-way House on the Coos Bay Wagon Road.
From a newspaper article in the Myrtle Point Herald, Myrtle Point, Oregon, Thursday, Apr. 14, 1949 about John A. Harry:
"Back in the year 1852 when wagon trains (prairie schooners), drawn by oxen, were the only means of transportation between the eastern states and the great unknown wilderness of the West, among the hardy men and women who made up a certain wagon train from Iowa was a gangling boy of 18 years who was doing his "manfullest" best at "bull-whacking" and doing night guard duty to protect the train from possible attack by unfriendly Indians and other dangers that lurked on the trail of the pioneers. Also in that same wagon train was a young girl of 11 years by the name of Chloe Amelia Cook who was destined to become the life-partner of the gangling boy. In later years Chloe Amelia had many interesting stories to tell of her experiences coming across the plains, carrying water and gathering "buffalo chips" for fuel."
"John Alva Harry and Chloe Amelia Cook were married in 1857 in Lane county, just five years after their hazardous trip across the plains in the wagon train, he being 23 and his wife only 17. They moved at once to his land claim on the Coquille river, near Myrtle Point. They made this trip on horseback and, months afterwards, small bits of her dress could be seen where they caught on the wild rose thorns along the narrow trail over Sugar Loaf mountain. Mr. Harry was a resident of what is now Coos county three years before getting married."
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Father - John Laird. Mother - Marion Calhoon, Discrepancy: Death certificates shows DOD May 7, 1909 grave marker as May 8, 1909
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