LARD, JOHN, was born Feb. 12, 1792, near Charleston, S. C., was taken by his parents to Kentucky, where his father died. At fifteen years of age he went to St. Louis to visit an uncle, and was married there in 1812, to Lydia Todd. She died in Feb., 1824, leaving one child. John Lard went to Wayne county, Ill., and was there married to Elizabeth Kelly, and returned to St. Louis about 1830, and came to Sangamon county in March, 1835, and settled in what is now Ball township. They had six children. Of his seven children--

JOSIAH, born May 12, 1819, in St. Louis, Mo., married Sept. 22, 1842, in Sangamon county, to Jemima J. Crowder. She had six children, and died April 3, 1855. Mr. Lard was married Nov. 25, 1857, to Amelia Funderburk. They had four living children. Of all his children, MARTHA A., married John Marshall, and lives in Missouri. JOAB J. married Mary J. Stroud, has three children, ELECTA A., JAMES J. and PHILEMAN S., and live in Ball township. LYDIA E. married J. J. Jones, and lives in Montgomery county, Kansas. SARAH T., married Alfred Curtis, have one child, LAURA, and live in Ball township. ALCY or ALICE, GEORGE R., JACOB F., JOHN H., EMMA and MINNIE live with their parents. Josiah Lard lives on the farm where his father settled in 1835, in Ball township, twelve miles south of Springfield.

CYNTHIA A., married Robert Maher, have one child, LOUISA P., and reside in Ball township, six miles south of Springfield.

THOMAS K. died in 1851, aged seventeen years.

AMELIA married William J. Atterbery, and lives in Christian county, Missouri.

ROBERT J., married Sarah Rupert, have two children, MARY E. and LUELLA MAY, and live in Ball township.

MAHALA married Ninian M. Taylor. See his name.

HEZEKIAH is unmarried, and lives with his sister, Mrs. Maher.

Mrs. Elizabeth Lard died Feb. 9, 1843, and John Lard died Nov. 16, 1845, both in Sangamon county.