Volume 10 , Issue 7

Claud Baird Poems

This week we received an email from the granddaughter of Claud Baird. We also learned a bit more about the man, Claud Baird, who wrote Patriotic and Other Poems.

While digging through some back issues of our family treasures and "OkieLegacy Ezine (Vol. 5, Iss. 12)" we found this McGill Bros' copy of Patriotic and Other Poems - written, published back in 1917 by Claud Baird.

Patriotic & Other Poems was printed by Renfrew's Record Print, Alva, Oklahoma and published, copyrighted around 1917, in Alva, Oklahoma by Claud Baird. This was supposedly his first volume published for the public. Claud Baird dedicated it to the one who had given him his greatest inspiration -- his mother.

Among the selection of poems you will find is a poem Baird wrote for the Pilgrim Bard. It is entitled... To The Pilgrim Bard - (SEE pg. 3, of the scanned pages of Baird's Patriotic Poems.)

"Sweet Singer of the Western plains!
I come not to disturb thy blissful melodies
With harsh and untried meter.
Thy fame is great, thy songs have long since
Been sung by thy fellow pioneers....."

We don't know for sure, but that book of poems may have belonged to our Grandpa Bill McGill or Grandma Constance (Warwick) McGill. Whoever it belonged to, we wonder what paths Grandpa and Grandma passed with Claud Baird. If they personal knew each other back in the 1917 era of Northwest Oklahoma.
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