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Subject: Baird.Wood.1918.Barren.OBIT


Wood Baird 1918 
Barren County KyArchives Obituaries

Unknown Glasgow KY newspaper.

"Death Rode The Wheels. And Mr. Wood Baird Dies Under His Automobile. The most 
appalling of all the automobile tragedies that have ever occured in this 
section was that in which Mr. Wood Baird met his death, Monday night of last 
week. 

"It appears that Mr. Eugene Baird, his son, Mr. Wood Baird, Mr. Charley Redford 
and Mr. Taylor Redford, all went to Louisville Sunday using a Ford machine. On 
their return Monday evening about dark, the party came down the Dixie Highway 
at the brisk, but not reckless, gait, and just above Horse Cave they suddenly 
whirled around a sharp turn and hit a chug-hole in the pike. Mr. Wood was at 
the wheel, and, in avoiding the bad place in the road, drove too close to the 
edge of the pike. The machine instantly turned turtle, and all the occupants 
were thrown out and almost instantly killed - living but a few seconds. Mr. 
Eugene Baird was badly shaken up, Mr. Taylor Redford had two ribs broken and 
Mr. Chas. Redford was badly bruised up. Mr.
Baird's body was brought here to Mr. E. J. Jewell's undertaking establishment 
and prepared for burial.

"The tragic affair created a tremendous sensation on account of the prominence 
of all the parties, and the popularity of the deceased.

"Wood Baird was the son of Mr. Eugene Baird, who is probably the wealthiest 
farmer of the county, and one of the  best beloved and most highly esteemed 
citizens therein. The deceased was a quiet, greatly liked young man, and was 
his father's manager of the estate of one thousand acres at Goodnight. He was 
one of the hardest, most industrious workers in the whole county, and of an 
even temper and sunny disposition that made his [sic] a great favorite with his 
many fdriends all over the county.

"Mr. Baird was twenty-five years of age and is survived by the followingt: his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bard, his sisters, Mrs. Harold 
Wilson and Miss Mary Baird, and a younger brother. The family has a host of 
friends all over the county, and there was universal sorrow over the tragedy.

"The remains were interred in the Rogers family burying ground near Goodnight, 
last Tuesday."


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