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Daniel BAKER

Born: July 1795 in NY
Died: 1870, FCTX

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Margaret MILLER

Born: 1803 in Ohio
Died: Oct 26, 1906 in Muldoon, FCTX
Father: Jacob MILLER

Mother: Elizabeth FUDGE

 

Children:

 

1. Eliza Baker (b. May 6, 1830 in Ohio; d. Oct 26, 1906 in Muldoon, FCTX; m. James Carrel BELL (b. Mar 1, 1820 in Wayne Co, KY; d. Aug 4, 1880) on Jun 23, 1844 in La Grange, TX)

Children:

  1. Lucretia A. Bell (b. Jun 15, 1845, FCTX; d. May 1, 1876)

  2. John Miller Bell (b. Nov 15, 1846, FCTX; d. Nov 24, 1931 in Wilson, TX)

  3. Susannah Harrison Bell (b. Aug 23, 1849, FCTX; d. 1865)

  4. Margaret Frances Bell (b. Nov 24, 1850, FCTX; d. Jan 11, 1927 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, TX; m. Stephen John Byerly)

  5. Harriet Jane Bell "Hattie" (b. Feb 18, 1852, FCTX)

  6. Mary Elizabeth Bell (b. Nov 29, 1853, FCTX; d. Jun 10, 1910)

  7. William Carrel Bell (b. Apr 8, 1856, FCTX)

  8. Sarah Amanda Bell (b. Nov 16, 1858, FCTX; d. Jun 5, 1917)

  9. Andrew Jackson Jerome Bell (b. May 30, 1860, FCTX)

  10. Ellen Josephine Bell (b. Mar 31, 1862, FCTX)

  11. Phaselus Bell (b. Feb 16, 1864, FCTX)

  12. Anna Tilda Bell (b. Mar 9, 1867, FCTX)

  13. Isaac Robert Bell (b. May 6, 1869, FCTX)

  14. James Walker Bell (b. Nov 13, 1872, FCTX; d. Feb 12, 1951 in Stafford, Graham Co, AZ)

  15. Silas Daniel Bell (b. Apr 6, 1877, FCTX; d. Sep 21, 1941)

Notes:

  • James C. Bell is listed as a member of the Sons of the Republic of Texas (SRT).

  • James is buried at Pitman Cemetery, FCTX.

  • Info on James C. Bell found on this webpage.

  • James was the son of Silas BELL Sr. (b. 1787 in Augusta Co, VA) and Lucretia WALKER (b. Dec 23, 1789 in Wayne Co, KY). Siblings include Mary Louisa Bell, Phasaelas Bell, Zoilus Bell, Ozzia Bell, and Isaac Bell.  Info. from this webpage: Cupp-Baugh Family Lineage.

  • Interesting reading...
    From: LaVerne Harrell Clark
    E-mail: Lhldclark@aol.com

    The biography of LaVerne Harrell Clark, author of 8 books of fiction and non-fiction, again appears in connection with her writings and photography, in both the current editions of Marquis’s WHO’S WHO of AMERICA, as it has since the previous, 59th. ed., and in WHO’S WHO OF AMERICAN WOMEN, where it’s been included since the 1980s.

    A distinctive feature of both the former’s 60th ed. and the latter’s 25th.ed. is the biographical data they now include on some of the biographee’s ancestors like Clark’s who participated in historical events. On her father Boyce Harrell’s side, she counts back 7 generations to James Francis Walker Sr. and his wife Catherine Miller Walker who were members of Stephen F. Austin’s “Original 300,” who made up the first Anglo colonist to settle Texas while it belonged to Mexico. Their log home in Brenham, TX was restored by the owner of the famous Bluebell Ice Cream Co. there, for use as a Bed & Breakfast a while back.

    Likewise, their grandson, James Carrel Bell, another of her direct ancestors, was a participant in the Seige of Bejar, the battle in San Antonio, which led to the Alamo. His grave in Muldoon commemorates his climb as a youth on the expedition to the top of the Mission Concepcion to raise the flag of the regiment of volunteers that Gen. Burleson led into the city from Bastrop, TX., the county seat of her Smithville, TX birthplace, which LaVerne & L.D. again call home.
 

2. Albert William Baker (b. 1833 in OH; m. Nancy Caroline BYERLY (b. 1841 in TX) on Feb 21, 1861, FCTX)
 

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3. Daniel Baker (b. 1833 in OH; m. Mary CROSS)
 

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4. Edward Baker (b. 1835 in OH)
 

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5. Harriette Baker "Hannie" (b. 1836 in OH)
 

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Joel Baker

Aurelia Springstead Baker

6. Joel Baker (b. June 19, 1838, FCTX; d. Jan 3, 1900, FCTX; m. Aurella SPRINGSTEAD (b. Mar 5, 1850 in Huron Co, OH; d. Sep 20, 1941 in Snyder, TX) on April 29, 1868)
Children:

  1. Thiaphilus Walton Baker "Tony" (b. May 15, 1868 in Fayette Co, TX; d. Aug 3, 1943 in Big Spring, Howard Co, TX; m. Pinkie Lee HARRISON (b. Dec 20, 1887; d. Jan 1977 Big Spring, Howard Co, TX) on Jan 5, 1910)

  2. Margaret Jane Elizabeth Baker (b. Jul 2, 1871, FCTX; d. May 2, 1929 in Big Spring, TX; m. George Washington BYERLY (b. Dec 1868; d. Sep 7, 1943))

  3. Daniel Arnold Baker (b. Nov 8, 1866, FCTX; d. 1874)

  4. Dede Baker

  5. Joel Jackson Baker "Jack" (b. May 22, 1884, FCTX; d. Jan 6, 1956 in Big Spring, TX)

  6. Alva Rena Baker (b. Apr 10, 1887 in La Grange, TX; d. Jun 7, 1967 in Big Spring, TX; m. William Henry JOHNSON (b. Jun 25, 1878) on Dec 27, 1908)

  7. Eliza Belle Baker (b. Apr 19, 1877; d. Aug 29, 1952 in Houston, TX; m. Dorman Calvin SNOW (b. Apr 4, 1870; d. Mar 20, 1929) on Jun 10, 1899 in Flatonia, FCTX)

  8. Albert William  Baker (b. Jul 2, 1880, FCTX; d. 1954 in Heber Springs, AR; m. Ursula Novella BAKER (b. 1885)

  9. Charles Springstead Baker (b. Nov 19, 1890, FCTX; d. Jan 10, 1941; m. Eva BYERLY)

Notes:

  • Joel joined the 16th Infantry of the Confederate States of America, Flournoy’s Regiment Texas Infantry, Company I. He marched to Camden, Arkansas and down to Louisiana, with the regiment fighting at Milliken’s Bend, the Red River Campaign, the Camden Expedition, Mansfield and Pleasant Hill. He was captured 9 April 1864 at Pleasant Hill in Louisiana. According to his military records he had been sick from June through September. He suffered physically from his service with the CSA until his death.

  • After his return from the war, at age 30 , on 29 April 1868 he married Aurelia Springstead.

  • He was a Church of Christ circuit preacher and farmer. His granddaughter, Jean Prather, tells that he farmed in the winter and then when the weather was good in the summer, he took their wagon and went around the area preaching the gospel.

  • They lived in Fayette County, TX around Muldoon and Black Jack Springs all their lives.

  • The above information came from this webpage which is dedicated to Joel Baker, whose buried at Pin Oak Cemetery cem, La Grange, TX.
Stephen F. Austin Baker

7. Stephen Fuller Austin Baker (b. Nov 1840, FCTX; d. 1910; m. Harriett Georgia BYERLY (b. 1850 in TX; d. 1900 in TX) on Jun 28, 1868 in Fayette Co, TX)

Children:

  1. Eugene Edward Baker

  2. Ella Josephine Baker (m. Edwin GEORGE)

  3. Claude David Baker

  4. Daniel George Baker "Uncle Dan"

  5. Ida Mabel Baker "Ida Mae"

  6. Nancy Irene (m. G. D. TALBOT "Dan")

  7. William Frederick Baker

  8. Maggie Georgia Baker (m. George BOSTICK)

  9. Walter Henry Baker

  10. Jessie Matilda Baker (m. Edmond M. DURHAM)

Notes:

  • Stephen is buried in Peacock Cemetery, in Aspermont, Stonewall Co, TX. (Why was he buried there?)

  • Hariett's father was George Byerly.

 
Notes:

  • Daniel was a stone mason by trade and a Church of Christ minister. It has also been said that he worked on the Erie Canal. He probably moved to Texas in late 1835 or early 1836. The 1840 Citizens of Texas, Volume 2, Tax Rolls by Gifford White, page 35 (Fayette County, shows Daniel Baker owning two town lots in La Grange, Texas).

    Daniel shows up in the 1850 Fayette County Texas census #235 (or 205), however Margaret no longer is named with the rest of the family. The 1860 Fayette County census for La Grange also indicates that Daniel's occupation was stone mason at $250 dollars (annual income?)

    The first time Daniel shows up in Texas is December 26, 1839 on the tax list. He received Cert #146 for 640 acres of land.

  • Page Sources:
    1. Morris and Nell George of Lubbock, Texas

Margaret Jane Elizabeth Baker and George Washington Byerly
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