The Children of John Baier(l) and Mary Delmore

John and Mary had 13 children according to their own testimony.  Four of those have not been found in records at this point.  An educated clan, many taught school before their marriages.

Anna Marie (Nan) was born in 1867 in Wisconsin.  She married Edmund English.

The remaining known children were all born in Haverhill Township, Minnesota.  Frances Margaret (Fan) was born in  1872. She married Phillip Cassidy and they had ten children all in Olmsted County.

Catherine Agnes (Kate) was born in 1875.
"Called Home - Miss Katherine Byers Joined the Great Majority  This Morning.
Wednesday's Daily - The dark Angel Death cast his grim shadow over the home of John Byers this morning.  She who answered the dread summons was Mill Katherine Byers.  Miss Byers has been ill for a long time and a number of times her life has been dispaired [sic] of.  She had rallied so bravely several times that the anguished family began to take hope of her ultimate recovery.  Her disease was rheumatism and in spite of all that medical skill could do, it finally reached her heart.  The end came at an early hour this morning.  While death is always sad, this one is peculiarly so.  Miss Byers was twenty-two years of age, a bright, beautiful young woman, admired and beloved by all who knew her.  She had lived all her life in this county and her sweet disposition and charming womanly graces made everyone who came in contact with her, her friend.  Her untimely loss will be sincerely mourned by a host of friends.  The funeral will be held from St. John's church Friday morning, the Rev. Father Riordan officiating."  (Olmstead County Democrat, Friday Feb 23, 1900 p1 col 3.)

Elizabeth Cecelia (Liz), born 1878, married Maximillian Conrad om 1897.  They had seven known children.  One, Max Arthur Conrad was better known as the "Flying Grandpa".

John Matthew was born in 1880. He married Agnes Czapleske. John took over the Baier family farm. John and Agnes had four children, one of whom died in infancy.

Their only surviving son died in a hunting accident.  "Man Killed in Hunting Accident - John Baier Dies in Accidental Discharge of Gun - Shot through the chest when a shotgun on which he was manipulating the ejector accidentally discharged, Joseph John Baier, 23 years old, assistant to the farm superintendent at the State Hospital, was killed instantly this afternoon.  It was the area's first hunting fatality of the season." Rochester Post 28 Oct 1940

Eva Baier Lawler and John Matthew Baier
Lawler Farm Collection

John Matthew died in 1973 in Iowa.

Josephine Gertrude (Govie) was born in1881. She married George Timothy Joyce, MD in 1906. They had three children.














Sarah Veronica (Sadie) was born in 1883.  She married Michael P Macken in 1914 and died in 1922 of Bright's Disease and diabetes.  She is buried in the family plot in Calvary Cemetery

Evelyn Teresa (Eva) was born in 1886.  She married William Patrick Lawler in 1913. William is a grandson of Jeremiah Lawler and Margaret English.

Mark Anthony was born in 1893 and married Helen St. John. Close in age to John Edward English his nephew, they played together on the farm when John would visit during the summer.  They were the best of friends.  John was devestated when Mark died as the result of a gunshot wound in November of 1940.  He had been despondent  since the death of another nephew John Joseph Baier in a hunting accident.  The coroner's inquest ruled the death accidental.