Margaret Nicholl Laird, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Margaret Nicholl Laird

American missionary

Date of Birth: 31-Jul-1897

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: missionary

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Margaret Nicholl Laird (31 July 1897 – June 1983) was an American missionary of the Baptist Mid-Missions who worked in the French colony of Ubangi-Shari and independent Central African Republic (CAR) from 1922 until the 1960s.
She was one of the founders and longest serving missionaries of the Baptist Mid-Missions in the CAR.
In recognition of her service as a medical missionary and her many other activities in the CAR, Margaret was awarded the French Legion of Honor (1952), the Central African Republic Knight of the Order of Merit (1961), the Distinguished Alumni of the Year of the Women's College of Colorado (1962), and the Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Award for the Daughters of Hadassah (1962).