JAMES S BAKER



JAMES S BAKER was born December 1836 in Georgia and died between 1900 and 1910 in Wise County, Texas. He married 1855 in Georgia to ELIZABETH LOUISA EUBANKS, daugher of Thomas and Elenorah (Thompson) Eubanks, born October 1838 in Hall County, Georgia and died after 1910 in Texas.

Issue:
JULIA ANN BAKER, born 26 April 1856 in Alpharetta, Cherokee County, Georgia and died 17 May 1930 in Colfax, Van Zandte County, Texas. She married 25 December 1873 in Colbert County, Alabama to John Milton Mitchell.
THOMAS H BAKER, born 1859 in Alpharetta and died before 1900.
BYRON KELLOGG BAKER, born 1865-68 in Georgia and died 23 September 1926 in Wichita County, Texas. He married 1887 in Georgia to Sarah Rebecca Waldrip.
FRANCES J BAKER, born 1876 in Alpharetta, Milton County, Georgia and died before 1910.
JAMES HARRIS LEE BAKER, born 1867-74 and died in childhood. Buried at Coal Mountain, Marshall County, Alabama.
THEODORIA CLEMENTINE BAKER, born 1867-74 and died in childhood. Buried at Coal Mountain.
SINA C BAKER, born 11 May 1879 in Alpharetta and died 27 April 1958 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. She married 1899 in Texas or Oklahoma Indian Territory to George Robert Baker, her first cousin. Sina's funeral notice mentioned Church of the Recessional and that she was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, CA, services by Hollywood Presytarian Church.

I believe that there were others who must of died young.

Here are some notes I've made, you can use them as you wish.

Juanita S Brightwell, Eunice Silee & Elsie C Fulghum, editors,Roster of Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865 (Spartenburg, SC; The Reprint Co., 1982)

Vol 4, pp. 62-629
Company B, 43rd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Tennessee, Cherokee County, GA.
James S Baker - 2nd Corporal 10 March 1862. Deserted in 1864. Took oath of allegiance to US Government at Louisville, KY and released to remain north of the Ohio River during the remainder of the war, 15 June 1864.
George W Baker - Private 10 March 1862. Deserted. Captured in Cass (now Bartow) County, GA in 1864. Took oath of allegiance to US Government at Louisville, KY and released to remain north of the Ohio River for the remainder of the war, 15 June 1864.
Caleb G Baker - Private 10 March 1862. Captured at Baker's Creek, Mississippi 16 May 1863. Exchanged in 1863. Roll dated 30 April 1864 last on file shows he was "detailed shoemaker GO #60 from Headquarters, Army of Tennessee, Feb 1864". Served on this detail through the war. (Born in Franklin County, GA in 1818).
Charles J Baker - Priate. No later record.

Katherine McKinstry Duncan, The History of Marshall County, Alabama, Prehistory to 1939, Vol 1 (Albertville, AL; Thompson Printing, 1969)
"Georgia Mountain (town) is located 7 miles NW of Guntersville...11 families immigrated with Ira Foster of Forsyth County and Atlanta to Georgia Moutain after the (Civil) War, including Eubanks family...Mount Carmel baptist Church was founded in 1867...yhr dsmr church Ira Foster had belonged to in Georgia... The following names were listed from Mount Carmel in 1867 Baptist Association Minutes... J S Baker, L D Eubanks... Manchester (town) was located 7 miles west of Guntersville, founded in 1888....now defunct.


 I am told that this is Byron Kellogg Baker and his family, circa 1913.
Seated: Byron Kellogg Baker, Washington R King, S Bettie Baker.
Standing: Clyde K Baker, Dauter M Baker, James C Baker, Carl D Baker, Mollie Baker King, George W Baker.

 Cuteone Carraway (Mrs. Harvey) of Tyler, TX
Has in her possesion a handwritten letter from "Your brother Thomas H Baker" of Marietta, GA addressed to "J M Mitchell of Prides Station, Colbert County, Alabama". No date.

Also in her possesion is a xerox page of two newspaper articles. There is no date or paper mentioned as to which paper. Here is the articles in total.
"From Indian Territory
If the kind of editor will allow me the space I will tell the good people of my childhood home a little aout the far west, among the Indians.
We live 75 miles east of Oklahoma City, OK, and about the same distance south-west of Muscogee, I.T. Nation, on the Choctoaw railroad, in the Creek nation. It is a fine farming and cattle country. A rich, black, sandy soil about equally divided between prairie and timber; and can raise almost anything here. Corn, cotton, wheat, oats, Kaffir corn cane, Irish potatoes, and onions, are the principal crops.
Corn yields from 35 to 85 bushels to the acre, cotton from 2/4 to 1 1/2 bales to the acre, and everything else in proportion, without the use of any kind of fertilizers. Most all work is done while ridig, which makes it easier and much more pleasant. My old father, James S Baker, is now plowing three horses, and all he has to do is to sit upon the plow and drive. You good old people who knew him may hae some idea how much he enjoys his life behind the one old mule and a Georgia stock, which is not used any where here except in the garden. This country is being settle up very rapidly.
When my husband and I came here five years ago, there were not very many white people here, and you could see great herds of cattle, some 3,000 in a herd, any direction you looked. But all the large pastures are now being divided into nice farms. The Indians are selling thier lands, and any one can get a good home very cheap.
We have as good people here as any one ever met, and a great many Indians who are generally very good. The principal parts of our white population is from Texas, Kansas, Kentucky, Arkansas, and many from old Georgia of whom we are very proud.
We have good schools, churches of every denomination, good societies of all kinds, in the towns, but not so convenient in the country. Yet we believe the time is soon coming when this will be one of the leading sections of the great west.
Listen, good people; we live within six miles of the thriving town of Wewoka, our nearest railroad point, and if any of you should ever get tired of your old homes and want to change, come to the Red Man's own country, and I am sure you would never regret it. Would be glad to have you call on us, and we would show you as good a time as you could expect - perhaps better, if you have the same opinion of every thing here that I had.
Would be glad to hear from any of my old friends; and to let you know who I am, will say that I married a Mr. G R Baker, of Era, Texas. I didn't get my name changed, but got a mighty good man.
Regret to hear of so much sickness in that part of the world. Health is good here.
Mrs. Sina Baker"

"Manchester, Ala., May 1 (1889) - Thinking that a few lines from this, my old home would be interesting to our many readers, I thought I would pen a few lines for the dear old DEMOCRAT.
I boarded the train at Aeworth, GA at 9 a.m., on the 27th ult., and reached Chattanooga at 6 p.m. the same day. On the following morning I engaged passage on the steamer Gunter, and remainded on it until Thursday evening at 4 o'clock. I stepped off the steamer at Guntersville, AL and was in 7 miles of my destination, where I arrived at 7 a.m., and found that the old home looked familiar, though there have been many changes made here, as also all along the line from Field's X Roads to Manchester, which is a new town that seems as though it was just spoke into existance, as it is situated on the farm that I used to cultivate. There are new towns building up all along the Tennessee River.
While on the steamer and headed for Decatur, AL, the steamer was ordered to make a call at South Pittsburg, which necessitated us to make a run of 110 miles off the line, hence our detention on the steamer from Monday till Thursday.
While traveling on the wate one can see many things interesting and amusing. It made me feel bad to see the old battlegrond where so many of our brave boys shed their life blood for a lost cause. I passed through Ringold, GA, and saw the very place where my brother was killed and buried. On we sped and near Resaca I thought of an incident that took place in time of the great struggle of a quarter of a century ago, as I looked into the cut where our boys lay wounded and dying. An old lady came out and asked us if we had seen anything of her son and son-in-law; they belonged to Bragg's Company. The last time she saw them they were on Chattanooga River. Her poor son-in-law got killed with a many(sic) yard ball, and her poor son John didn't have a thing in the world to eat but rations.
When I arrived at my old home all my old friends seemed very glad to see me. While there I visited the cemetery at Mt. Carmel, and looked at the graves where so many of my old friends bave been laid to rest since I was there. I saw the graves of my two children, James Harris Lee and Theodocia Clemantine that have been dead near 20 years. My mother-in-law, Mrs. E W Eubanks, was buried on the 18th ult., at the advanced age of 81 years.
Yours Respectfully,
J.S.B.

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