She is buried in Alexander Cemetery in an unmarked grave next to her husband James Perry Baird.
*Birth information came from England, Select Births and Christenings: Jane's Baptism was on 18 August 1754, West Tanfield, York, England with parents as William & Mary Lynn.
As a young man in Ireland, James Baird was employed as a coachman. In 1779 Newton, Londonderry, Ireland he married Jane, eldest daughter of his employer, Sir William Lynn. This displeased her father, and he forbade her to have any contact with her family. Many years after Jane's death, a letter was received in Ohio County from her younger sister. Mrs. Rachel Baird Barnett Bell, a granddaughter of James and Jane said her grandmother was always spoken of as "Lady Jane." It is possible Rachel remembered her grandmother. James and Jane came to America in 1782, when their son James was an infant. The voyage took seven weeks instead of the usual four and food rations were so low James Senior had to be carried from the boat.
James and Jane lived with relatives in or near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, for several years before starting the long trek in the winter of 1789 over the mountains to Red Stone, now the town of Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The built a boat and they flat boated down the Ohio River to "The Falls," now Louisville. At a place near the present city of Cincinnati the boat was attacked by Indians and several of the passengers and crew were injured. James Junior was one of those injured and had scars of this injury all his life. They landed at the Falls in February of the latter year (1790) when only a few log cabins marked the present site of the city of Louisville.
In Kentucky the family settled at Bardstown, and later moved to Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky.
*NOTE* Bardstown, Kentucky was once called Salem as it was founded in 1778 by William Bard and some years later the name changed in honor of founder William Bard. The name Bard was changed to Baird some years later.
*Birth information came from England, Select Births and Christenings: Jane's Baptism was on 18 August 1754, West Tanfield, York, England with parents as William & Mary Lynn.
As a young man in Ireland, James Baird was employed as a coachman. In 1779 Newton, Londonderry, Ireland he married Jane, eldest daughter of his employer, Sir William Lynn. This displeased her father, and he forbade her to have any contact with her family. Many years after Jane's death, a letter was received in Ohio County from her younger sister. Mrs. Rachel Baird Barnett Bell, a granddaughter of James and Jane said her grandmother was always spoken of as "Lady Jane." It is possible Rachel remembered her grandmother. James and Jane came to America in 1782, when their son James was an infant. The voyage took seven weeks instead of the usual four and food rations were so low James Senior had to be carried from the boat.
James and Jane lived with relatives in or near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, for several years before starting the long trek in the winter of 1789 over the mountains to Red Stone, now the town of Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The built a boat and they flat boated down the Ohio River to "The Falls," now Louisville. At a place near the present city of Cincinnati the boat was attacked by Indians and several of the passengers and crew were injured. James Junior was one of those injured and had scars of this injury all his life. They landed at the Falls in February of the latter year (1790) when only a few log cabins marked the present site of the city of Louisville.
In Kentucky the family settled at Bardstown, and later moved to Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky.
*NOTE* Bardstown, Kentucky was once called Salem as it was founded in 1778 by William Bard and some years later the name changed in honor of founder William Bard. The name Bard was changed to Baird some years later.
She is buried in Alexander Cemetery in an unmarked grave next to her husband James Perry Baird.
*Birth information came from England, Select Births and Christenings: Jane's Baptism was on 18 August 1754, West Tanfield, York, England with parents as William & Mary Lynn.
As a young man in Ireland, James Baird was employed as a coachman. In 1779 Newton, Londonderry, Ireland he married Jane, eldest daughter of his employer, Sir William Lynn. This displeased her father, and he forbade her to have any contact with her family. Many years after Jane's death, a letter was received in Ohio County from her younger sister. Mrs. Rachel Baird Barnett Bell, a granddaughter of James and Jane said her grandmother was always spoken of as "Lady Jane." It is possible Rachel remembered her grandmother. James and Jane came to America in 1782, when their son James was an infant. The voyage took seven weeks instead of the usual four and food rations were so low James Senior had to be carried from the boat.
James and Jane lived with relatives in or near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, for several years before starting the long trek in the winter of 1789 over the mountains to Red Stone, now the town of Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The built a boat and they flat boated down the Ohio River to "The Falls," now Louisville. At a place near the present city of Cincinnati the boat was attacked by Indians and several of the passengers and crew were injured. James Junior was one of those injured and had scars of this injury all his life. They landed at the Falls in February of the latter year (1790) when only a few log cabins marked the present site of the city of Louisville.
In Kentucky the family settled at Bardstown, and later moved to Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky.
*NOTE* Bardstown, Kentucky was once called Salem as it was founded in 1778 by William Bard and some years later the name changed in honor of founder William Bard. The name Bard was changed to Baird some years later.
*Birth information came from England, Select Births and Christenings: Jane's Baptism was on 18 August 1754, West Tanfield, York, England with parents as William & Mary Lynn.
As a young man in Ireland, James Baird was employed as a coachman. In 1779 Newton, Londonderry, Ireland he married Jane, eldest daughter of his employer, Sir William Lynn. This displeased her father, and he forbade her to have any contact with her family. Many years after Jane's death, a letter was received in Ohio County from her younger sister. Mrs. Rachel Baird Barnett Bell, a granddaughter of James and Jane said her grandmother was always spoken of as "Lady Jane." It is possible Rachel remembered her grandmother. James and Jane came to America in 1782, when their son James was an infant. The voyage took seven weeks instead of the usual four and food rations were so low James Senior had to be carried from the boat.
James and Jane lived with relatives in or near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, for several years before starting the long trek in the winter of 1789 over the mountains to Red Stone, now the town of Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The built a boat and they flat boated down the Ohio River to "The Falls," now Louisville. At a place near the present city of Cincinnati the boat was attacked by Indians and several of the passengers and crew were injured. James Junior was one of those injured and had scars of this injury all his life. They landed at the Falls in February of the latter year (1790) when only a few log cabins marked the present site of the city of Louisville.
In Kentucky the family settled at Bardstown, and later moved to Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky.
*NOTE* Bardstown, Kentucky was once called Salem as it was founded in 1778 by William Bard and some years later the name changed in honor of founder William Bard. The name Bard was changed to Baird some years later.
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