Nancy Jane "Nan" Lucas

BAIRD, Nancy Jane LUCAS - (from The Springdale News, June 18, 1897, reprinted from Fayetteville Sentinel) Nannie Baird, wife of Captain Y.J. Baird, died at her residence in this city on Wednesday afternoon after a lingering illness of consumption, aged about 50 years. She was a daughter of the late Reverand Wesley Lucas, a well known minister in his day in Madison County and the eastern part of this County, and was married about twenty-five years ago. She leaves one daughter about 13 years of age. The remains were taken to Wesley for interment. Captain Baird was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Sheriff last year. (Nancy Jane LUCAS Baird, born ca 1845 died 9 June 1897; daughter of Rev. Wesley W. & Jane COVEY Lucas; wife of Young Jefferson Baird. Buried Wesley Cemetery) [Pre-1920 Obituaries of Madison County, Arkansas, Residents- M.C.G.& H.S.]