1869
Peter Lair,
(colored) Springfield, Mo.
Minister - Springfield
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1869, page 88]
1870
Peter Lear,
(colored) Springfield, Mo.
Minister - Springfield
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1870, page 83]
1871
Peter Lair,
(col'd), Springfield, Mo.
Minister - Springfield
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1871, page 83]
1872
Lair, Peter,
Springfield, Mo.
Minister - Springfield
Presbytery - Missouri
Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1872, page 122]
Rev. Peter Lair, minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
Brush Creek Township, Wright Co., Mo., was born in Georgia in
1830, and his mother's name was Letty May. She married a man by
the name of Nero, who was the father of our subject, Peter Lair.
Mr. Lair was sold out of the Weaver family, to whom his mother,
by transfer, belonged, and was bought by a family by the name
of Lair, hence his name. He lived with them until the time of
the emancipation, and was set free in Dallas County, Tex. He then
went to work and earned $2 plowing. He has preached since he was
eighteen years of age; has taught school and preached at Springfield.
He drove a six mule team through to Springfield for a man, in
order to get his wife through to that city. In 1866 he purchased
three acres of land on St. Louis Street, in Springfield, and lived
there for seventeen years. He came to Missouri in 1880, and has
160 acres of land. He sold out of three acres, $2,545 worth of
property, and owns about $1,000 worth of property there yet. Since
the war he has preached nearly every week. He has preached in
the Kansas City Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and was absent
just lately on a tour through a number of the states, but was
in Topeka, Kas., for seven weeks. He was married to Miss Fanny
Carson, who was a native of Butler County, Ky. Her mother belonged
to a family by the name of Carson, and her father to a family
by the name of Porter. She was with her husband in Dallas County,
Tex., when first set free. She earned her first money by spinning
and knitting. They have never had any children of their own, but
have several adopted children; one, George Lair, is the nephew
of Mr. Lair.
[Source: History
of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps
and Dent Counties, Missouri. The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889, page 1182.]