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| Birth: | 3 Jul 1810 in Greene County, Tennessee |
| Death: | 28 Jan 1892 in Independance County, Arkansas |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | William Baker b. 1785 in Greene County, Tennessee |
| Mother: | Christiana Girdner b. 1792 in HeidelburgT.S., Northampton, PA |
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| Burial: Alderbrook Cemetery, Independence Co, AR |
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| Anna Carolina Beeler (Wife) b. 24 Jan 1820 in McMinn Co, Tennessee
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| Marriage: | 1836 in McMinn County, Tennessee |
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 William L Baker b. 22 May 1838 in McMinn County, Tennessee
 Mary Jane Baker b. 22 Aug 1840 in Independance County, Arkansas
- Francis Marion Baker b. 14 Oct 1842 in lndependence County, Arkansas
- John Wesley (Old) Baker b. 9 Jan 1845 in Indepencence County, Arkansas
- Robert Winfield Baker b. 29 Aug 1847 in Independence County, Arkansas
- David Leonidas Baker b. 6 Nov 1852 in Independence County, Arkansas
- Rufus Albert Baker b. 14 Oct 1854 in Independence County, Arkansas
- James Lafayette Baker b. 6 Aug 1859 in Independence County, Arkansas
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Individual:
JOHN BAKER, only son of William & Christinia Gurtner Baker, born July 8, 1810 in Greene County, Tennessee. On May 12, 1813, William Baker enlisted in the US Army and went away to fight in the War of 1812. William Baker died in 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 Bake), and went to McMinn County Tennessee, and settled in McMinnville, Tennessee. There in 1836, he met and married Anna Caroline 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 move 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 purchase 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.
In the Wars of the Revolution and the War of 1812, the government, instead of paying pensions to men, they would have them join the Army and serve during that War, and after the War was over, they would issue them a land grant, granting them so many acres of land in territories not admitted into the Union as a State. A good many years after the second war with Britian (War of 1812 Ed. Note), President John Quincy Adams issued a land grant to our great grandfather (John Baker), granting him five hundred acres of land down close to Arkansas Post, Arkansas, which was then the Territory Capital. My grandfather, David Leonidas Baker took this land grant over to Batesville, Arkansas (Independence County seat, Ed. note), and turned it over to a lawyer for him to look into and found out that this land could still be gotten, but the taxes on it were so much, and transportation in those days were horse back, and there was no way of getting to this land, so grandpa dropped the matter, and the lawyer lost the land grant, there was never anything done about it. (This land was later found to be such a wilderness area that no one could use it. Editor's note.)
All of the above land grants are still in the family and are now in the possession of Annie Massey of McHue Arkansas, the daughter of James Lafayette Baker, the youngest son of John and Annie Caroline Baker". ( Here ends the 1972 remembrances of Jacob H. Baker. Editor's notes, Byron Brown, July 1998.)
John Baker lived through most of the Nineteenth Century, July 1810 - January 1892. He and his wife, Anna Caroline raised eight children on their farm in Independence County, Arkansas. All were born in their log home there except their oldest son, William L. In April, 1997, my brother, John Robert Brown, David L. Baker of Little Rock, AR., and the Editor visited the old farm site. Saw the old log home with additions. David L Baker commented that he remembers hearing that the farm land had small stones in the soil and when John Baker saw it he said, "This will make good farm land because these stones will help hold the moisture."
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. Or as David L Baker says, "The War of Northern Invasion."
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 known to the farm. He was a good man in all the relations of life and leaves an unblemished record. His venerable wife survives him." (Editor's Note: NOW THERE WAS A MAN.)
John Baker and his wife Anna Caroline are buried in Alderbrook Cemetery, Desha, Arkansas.
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