GIRD Biography by Dianna Kindel MYERS

GIRD Biography #1 by Dianna Kindel MYERS

The following information comes from Diana K. Myers, who is a
Great-great-great grand-daughter of Anna Maria Gird Walker who
Was a sister of Henry Harrison Gird. The information came from
Family papers in her family's possession.

Henry Hattan Gird I (born circa 1745 in Ireland) and married in
Ireland. His wife was Charlotte Elizabeth Hines, of the gentry
Class of Dublin. Henry's family was very wealthy and came from
Wexford. He and Charlotte had:
Henry Hattan II b. c. 1770
John b. c. 1775
Isabella b. c. 1789
Maria b. after 1793
Eliza b.
Emily b.
Others ?
At the time of the rebellion in 1792, Henry's sons could not agree
On politics, so he and sixteen family members and slaves went to
America, chartering a boat to Philadelphia and bringing with them
$90,000 in gold! Gird's son, John, went back to Ireland to fetch
his little sister, Isabelle, and wrap up business there.

Henry H. I wanted to raise wheat for export in the New World, so
he bought a plantation on Stony Creek, near Winchester, Va. He
lived in Alexandria, Va. and the District of Columbia with his
family; he and his son, John, built four flour mills there. The
family went to an Episcopal church in Washington, D.C. However,
Gird became gay and extravagant and lost propriety. The wheat
failed and the mills were burned by the British in 1814.

Tradition says that Henry Hattan (sic) Gird I had three sons, but one
married a servant and went West, and was disinherited. The
daughters never married and lived with their parents in New York,
where Gird moved after the wheat mills were destroyed. They
inherited all Gird's possessions in his will (?).

Henry Hattan (sic) Gird II was born circa 1770, in Wexford, Ireland.
He was educated about business in London and came to America with
his father. He went into publishing and printing in New York City
and was a member of the firm Salisbury (or Stanbury?) and Gird.

Henry Hattan (sic) Gird II married, about 1800, Mary Smith Crane (her second
marriage). Shortly before Gird died, circa 1807, his wife's parents
moved to Litchfield, N. Y., possibly from Long Island, where Mary
grew up. Mrs. Gird took her children from Long Island, with their grandparents
in Litchfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y. after their father died. She later
lived in Utica, N. Y. where she died.

Mary Smith Crane was born 1772 and died 1864, the daughter of Richard
Smith and his wife, Mary Brush.
Henry Hatton Gird II and Mary had:
Henry Hattan (sic) III b. May 29, 1801
Richard b. circa 1803
Mary b. circa 1805
Edward b. circa 1807
Others ?

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Henry Hattan (sic) Gird III was born in New York city and lived in Litch-
Field after his father's death. He entered West Point on November
14, 1818 and graduated July 1, 1822, 18th in a class of 40. He was
a Lt. In the 2nd and 4th Artillery and was also on the faculty of
West Point. He retired from military service on November 30, 1829
to become president of the University of Louisiana from 1831-1842.
He was a farmer in Illinois for two years until 1844. He died in
New Orleans, where he had worked briefly for the U. S. Branch Mint.
In his file at West Point, M. Gird is given as his guardian; it
contains a letter from Edward V. Kinsley dated May 18, 1850.

Henry Hattan (sic) Gird III married July 21, 1824 Sarah Anne Kinsley,
Born December 30, 1803, daughter of Zabina Kinsley and Anne Duncan
Kinsley. Henry and Sarah had:
Anna Maria b. may 30, 1825
Henry Harrison b. Feb., 16, 1827
Louis Kinsley b. July 25, 1831
Richard Smith b. March 26, 1833
Edward Kinsley b. Jan. 18, 1835
Eliza Kinsley b. Sept., 6, 1836

Henry Hattan Gird III married, secondly, about 1838, Elizabeth Lewis
Wheeler, age 19. They had:
Joseph Wheeler Gird b. Oct. 21, 1839 who married
Jan. 14, 1864 Adeline Augusta Alden. They had
One child, Josephine W. Gird. B. Nov. 26, 1864.

Line of descent of Diana K. Myers:

1. Henry Hattan Gird I (b. circa 1745, Ireland)
2. Henry Hattan Gird II (b. c. 1770, Ireland)
3. Henry Hattan Gird III (b. May 29, 1801 N. Y. C.)
4. Anna Maria Gird (b. May 30, 1825)
m. George Walker (b. Oct. 7, 1809, Utica)
5. Thomas Eaton Walker (b. Sept. 10, 1852)
6. Blanche Anna Walker (b. Jul. 13, 1885)
m. Stefan Juricka (b. Oct. 27, 1878)
Malatina, Austria_Hungary now Czechoslovakia)
7. Susanna Elizabeth Juricka (b. Oct., 20, 1909, Jolo, Sulu, Philippines)
m. Robert Edgar Cecil (b. Jul. 17, 1906, Bluffton, Ind.)
8. Suzita Elizabeth Cecil (b. Manilla)
m. Clark Gilbert Myers (b. Cambridge, Mass.)
9. Diana Kindel Myers (b. Yokohama, Japan)

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(Editing was done to protect LIVING Descendants)

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