Story of Mrs. Mary (SMITH) GIRD

Story of Mrs. Mary (SMITH) GIRD

Mrs. Mary Smith Gird

Mrs. Mary Smith Crane married, second, Mr. Gird, of New York
City, who died there, leaving his widow with four children bearing his
name, Henry, Richard, John, and Mary. She subsequently removed
with her six children, to her father's , and spent many years at Litch-
field, N. Y.

Mr. Gird was a printer, and afterwards edited the first newspaper
In Alexandria and Washington, D. C. It is related of him, that he
once returned, from his home across the river, to make correction of a
single word in an article written by himself. Their children were:

1. Henry, educated from, and was afterwards Professor at West
Point, and married a Miss Kingsly (sic) of that place. He afterwards re-
moved to Louisiana, and was for many years president of a college in
that state. Removing to Illinois, he died upon his farm there. His
children were, Anna, born at Utica, married October, 1849, George
Walker, of that city, and has since resided there. Five children,
Eliza, married Frank Harris - living at Canandaigua, N. Y. Four
sons and three daughters.

2. Richard, master of a merchant vessel. Unmarried. Died at
His brothers Henry's, in Illinois.

3. John, married Laura King, and is still living at his old home,
at Litchfield. His children, Henry, John, Richard, Mary, and
Ellen, live in California. Mary married; Ellen did not. He has lost
children. His wife died many years ago.

4. Mary, the youngest daughter, married Catharinus P. Bucking-
ham; a graduate of West Point, he received a Lieutenant's commission
in the U. S, Army. He was from a worthy family residing at Zanes-
ville, Ohio. He removed to Mt. Vernon, Ohio; resigned his position
in the army; his wife died after three or four years, leaving two
daughters, Mary and Eunice. Mary married Mr. Fenner, a New York
merchant. Eunice married, and died in Florida.

August, 1884, Mr. Charles H. Mervine writes as follows, "I can
say little of the Cranes and Girds. The heads of those families
were men of prominence and usefulness. "

The near ancestors of the family of Gird, came to this country with
good store of property, and a large family of children, and settled in
Virginia, near Alexandria. Three unmarried daughters, Eliza, Emily
and Maria, lived many years in New York City, and died there.

(G-13)

(author unknown)

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