Russell Baird - Verden Cemetery - Verden, OK
Posted by: hamquilter
N 35° 04.687 W 098° 05.336
14S E 583058 N 3882085
Russell Baird's headstone is a traditional tree stump WOW marker.
Waymark Code: WMPHRQ
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/03/2015
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Verden Cemetery, on the south side of town, has approximately 1050 burials. Russell Baird's tree stump headstone rests on a double set of horizontal logs. The inscription is on a scroll, hanging from a rope, and reads:
Russell Baird
Born
Sept. 16, 1851
Died
April 25, 1906
His is one of the older headstones in this cemetery, that displays a date. He passed away a year before Oklahoma statehood.