| Birth: | 3 Jul 1810 in Tennessee |
| Death: | 1892 in Independance county, Arkansas |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | William Baker b. 1785 in Greene county, Tennessee |
| Mother: | Christina Girdner b. 1792 in SHeidelburg T.S., Northampton, PA |
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| Burial: Aldervrook Cemetery, Desha, Arkansas |
Individual:
John Baker's father William enlisted in the US Army and went away to fight in the War of 1812. William died on September 1, 1814 Bay St. Louis, Mississippi territory. John Baker may never have remembered his father.
Following written in 1972, by Jacob H Baker, descendant of John Baker: "John Baker lived with his mother on the Baker farm (Isaac Baker's plantation, Editor's Note.) in Greene county, Tennessee, until he became a man. He then sold his father's estate (which he inherited from his grandfather, Isaac Baker), and went to McMinn county, Tennessee, and settled there. In 1836, he met and married Anna Carolin Beeler, who was ten years younger. Anna was born in 1820. John Baker went to Arkansas territory and bought thirteen hundred and fifty acres of land that was a wilderness. Purchase price was fifty cents an acre. He had a log house built. and then moved his family from Tennessee to his Arkansas estate. His mother lived with him until her death, which is not known the year and month. (John's family consisted of his wife Anna Caroline, his baby son William L born May, 22, 1838, and his mother, Christinia.) The family moved to Independence county, Arkansas was made after William L Baker's birth and before Mary Jane Baker's birth, in August 1840, as she was born in Independence county, AR. (The log home, with additions was still standing in 1997, Editor's Note)
The first land that John Baker purchased in Arkansas territory was granted to him by President James Monroe during the "era of good feelings", and his next land purchased was during the Administration of President James Polk, his land grants were issued by President Polk. His next land purchase was during the Administration of President James Buchanan. He also received a land grant from President Buchanan. The last land purchase was during the administration of President Abraham Lincoln, these land grants were signed with Lincoln's name on them by Secretary O. Stoddard.
John Baker experienced the hardship of War. He lost his father in the War of 1812. He lost two sons and had a third badly wounded in the War Between the States.
John Baker's Obituary is a Classic: "DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN"- "Mr. John Baker of Greenbrier Township, whose serious illness we mentioned last week, died on Friday night. He suffered from no special disease. The machinery of life just wore itself out. Mr. Baker was 81 years of age and lived for more than fifty years in Greenbrier Township and raised a large family of children, who are among the very best and most substantial people of Independence county. He was a scrupulously honest and conscientious man, and his word was his bond with all who knew him. During his active life he was counted the best farmer in Greenbrier Township. No man raised so great a variety of products as he. He was not content with corn and cotton and oats and wheat. He raised potatoes, peas, fruit, hogs, cattle and everything else grown to the farm. He was a good man in all the relations of life and leaves an unblemished record. His venerable wife survives his"
- Title: Byron Brown, Brown, Baker Genealogical Home Page, bbrown7152@aol.com
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