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Baird family of Scottish descent, originally millers and millwrights, descending from John Baird who immigrated to Virginia from southeast of Glasgow, a Mill on a Tributary of the Clyde River "where the Clyde turns south." His descendants then migrated to North Carolina, and to Baird's Mill, near Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee, then to Texas.
Stoddard family from England, descending from Anthony Stoddard of London who settled in colonial Boston, Massachusetts, a "linen draper," who was well-respected and served 25 years as a "representative on the general court." His son Solomon graduated from Harvard College and served as its first librarian. His children and grandchildren were prominent colonial ministers and scholars. Descendants later moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, to Litchfield, Connecticut, to Vermont, Ohio and California. (American Revolutionary war service: Sgt. and Deacon Gideon Stoddard.)
Spencer ancestry has British and German roots: Eugene Jaccard Spencer, St. Louis MO Brigadier General of Reserves, WWI Distinguished Service Medal and French Legion of Honor Medal Cross honoree; Spencers of Michigan and Vermont; Story family of Michigan and Vermont, colonial settler from Germany Jacob Tritle (grandson AZ territorial gov. Frederick Augustus Tritle 1882 - 1885), Hereford, Foote, Stuart, Parker, Cobb, Hallett, Gorham, Howland and Tilley who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620. (American Revolutionary war service: Noah Spencer, Benajah Story, Isaac Lawrence, Nathaniel Parker, Georg Adam Cook, John Hereford II.)
Ord ancestors have primarily British/United Kingdom and Western European roots: U.S. Civil War General E.O.C. Ord, grandson of George IV of England; Thompson family of Virginia from Ireland/England; Maryland colonial and pioneer families Van Swearingen and Cresap; 19th C. immigrants Basevi from Croatia and Fultz from Germany; British colonial Virginia families Slaughter, Reade-Windebank (British Royal Family), Rootes, and Martiau (French Huguenot - common ancestor with George Washington). (American Revolutionary war service: Daniel Cresap Jr., Col. Daniel Cresap, Thomas Cresap, Capt. Philip Pendleton Slaughter, Col. James Slaughter, Maj. Philip Clayton, Col. Thomas Towles.)
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