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| Birth: | 9 Jan 1845 in Indepencence County, Arkansas |
| Death: | 25 Dec 1864 in POW Prison, Alton, Illinois |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | John Baker b. 3 Jul 1810 in Greene County, Tennessee |
| Mother: | Anna Carolina Beeler b. 24 Jan 1820 in McMinn Co, Tennessee |
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Individual:
John Wesley Baker, or John Ole Baker, or J.O. Baker, born January 9, 1845 in Independence County, Arkansas. Served as a Private in Company I, 8th Arkansas Calvary, CSA. He enlisted May 1, 1863 in Batesville, Arkansas and was a member of Newton's Regiment. Company Muster Roll shows he was sick July through October with a surgeon certificate. He was 18 years old. January and February Muster Roll shows him present. On October 24, 1864 he was captured at Mound City, Kansas and was confined at a POW camp (Prison) in Alton, Illinois. He died there on Christmas day, December 25, 1864. Family history says he froze to death. He was nineteen years old when he died as result of that terrible conflict.
Written by Jacob H Baker, ca 1972: "John Wesley (Uncle John) never married, he joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War (War of Northern Invasion), and was captured in the Missouri raid up close to Kansas City and was sent to Alton, Illinois with many other prisoners of war and placed in a Military Prison and there came up a big freeze and many froze to death. He was buried in the Confederate Cemetery in Alton, Illinois. It was six years after the War before his folks (John & Anna Caroline Baker) knew what became of him. Every day when grandma set the table, she would set a place for Uncle John thinking he would be home any time, but one day they received a letter from the War Department in Washington, DC saying that he froze to death in the Yankee Prison in Alton, Illinois".
He is also called John Old (Ole), by other family members?
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