Born in Edgefield, SC. Confederate Captain - Company K. 15th South Carolina Volunteers. House of Representatives, Mississippi Legislature 1877. Delegate from Lawrence Co., MS to the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention. Latin scholar. School teacher and member of the Board of Examiners in Lawrence Co. (Licensed teachers.) Son of Eldred Milledge Bird and Edna Holloway. Father of Leonora Holloway Bird (with Mittie E. Boswell, Eldred Levi Holloway Bird, Daniel Holloway Bird, Cary Holloway Bird(changed to Cary Miller Bird). Married Mittie E. Boswell, Alice Maria Jett and Mary Hamilton Conolly.
Born in Edgefield, SC. Confederate Captain - Company K. 15th South Carolina Volunteers. House of Representatives, Mississippi Legislature 1877. Delegate from Lawrence Co., MS to the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention. Latin scholar. School teacher and member of the Board of Examiners in Lawrence Co. (Licensed teachers.) Son of Eldred Milledge Bird and Edna Holloway. Father of Leonora Holloway Bird (with Mittie E. Boswell, Eldred Levi Holloway Bird, Daniel Holloway Bird, Cary Holloway Bird(changed to Cary Miller Bird). Married Mittie E. Boswell, Alice Maria Jett and Mary Hamilton Conolly.
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Faithful to loved ones, a generous true friend, a wise counsel * respected, trusted and loved by thousands without an enemy he adorned the life of man and left the world wiser and better for his having lived. (*There are illegible letters positioned here. Looks like "lor". Perhaps a mistake written in stone?)
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