Bird Genealogy

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Signature, Abraham Bird, land transaction, document, Baton Rouge, 1816, Louisiana

Signature of Abraham Bird Sr. on a 1816 document in East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court Archives

Notable Louisiana Bird Descendants

Noted descendants of the Bird family: Paul D. Perkins, Baton Rouge attorney and benefactor of what became the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, named for his daughter, who received her law degree from LSU. Mary's great grandfather was Thompson Joseph Bird (1827-1902), who was the grandson of William Thompson Bird (1791-1830).

LSU Olympian & track star Billy Brown, who competed in the 1939 Olympics in Berlin. He descends from Abraham Bird Jr.;

Thompson Joseph ("TJ") Bird (1827-1902) who was the 12th Sheriff, EBR Parish, & Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner between 1884-1890. While Commissioner, he wrote the first proposal by a state official to establish an agricultural research facility at LSU and championed aggressively for it.

Virginia Adelia Lobdell Jennings, author of The Plains and the People, a history of Upper East Baton Rouge Parish and The Rezin Bowie Family of Louisiana. Virginia Lobdell Jennings was a 3X great Granddaughter of Abraham Bird Sr.