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Stephen Fuller Austin BAKER

Born: Nov 1840 in TX
Died: 1910, FCTX

Buried: Peacock Cemetery, Aspermonte, TX
Father: Daniel Baker

Mother: Margarette MILLER

Stephen F. A. Baker

Married
Jun 28, 1868, FCTX

Harriett Georgia (Rebecca?) BYERLY

Born: 1850 in TX
Died: 1900 in TX
Father: George BYERLEY

Mother: Rebecca ANDREWS

Children:

1. Eugene Edward Baker

Notes:

I have two accounts of his death. One is that he died at birth. The other is that he was killed by train in Cisco, Texas.

2. Ella Josephine Baker (b. Apr 11, 1871, LaGrange, FCTX; d. Aug 16, 1928, Rotan, FiCTX, m. Edwin GEORGE (b. Feb 22, 1870, Bell Co, TX; d. Apr 17, 1943, Fisher Co, TX) on Jan 3, 1895 in La Grange, FCTX)

Children:

Edwin George Jr. (b. Oct 22, 1895, LaGrange, FCTX; d. Feb 12, 1960, Ranger, TX; m. Myrtle Cornet CLEMMER (b. Feb 29, 1904, Ranger, TX))

Lillian Ella George (b. Dec 21, 1897, LaGrange, FCTX; d. Aug 21, 1958, Rotan, FiCTX; m. Robert Elbert HARDY (b. 1894, Carbon, Eastland Co, TX))

Jet Raymond George (b. Oct 4, 1899, Rotan, FiCTX; d. Jun 25, 1967, Rotan, FiCTX; m. Ova Myrtle SHREVE (b. Jan 18, 1904))

Warren Alvin George (b. Sep 4, 1901, TX; d. Jul 1974, Salina, Mayes Co, OK)

Mabel Josephine George (b. Dec 2, 1903, TX; d. Mar 24, 1980, Spur, Dickens Co, TX; m. Lincoln CRAVEY (b. Apr 18, 1901))

Myrtle May George (b. Apr 24, 1905, Stonewall Co, TX; d. 1973, Spur, Dickens Co, TX; m. Jack Vinson CRAVEY (b. ))

Freeman George (b. Jul 2, 1906; d. May 8, 1912, Rotan, FiCTX)

Milton Linn George (b. Sep 22, 1907; d. Sep 1975, Stephenville, TX)

Notes:

Edwin George had blue eyes and was a cotton buyer. His parents were Samuel GEORGE and Sarah Elizabeth HENDERSON.

Info on Edwin George from The Waugh Family website (contact Michael Crothers) on rootsweb.

Information on Lillian Hardy comes from Morris George of Lubbock (806-793-5962).

3. Ida Mabel Baker "Ida Mae" (b. Dec 1874 in TX)

Notes:

Ida Mae never married.
She is buried in Forest Park/Lawndale, Houston, TX).

4. Daniel George Baker "Uncle Dan" (b. 1874 in TX)
Children:

George Daniel Baker

Jody Irene Baker

Elizabeth Baker

Notes:

Dan is buried in Forest Park/Lawndale, Houston, TX.

5. Claude David Baker (b. 1874)

Notes:

6. Nancy Irene Baker (b. c. 1876, m. G. D. TALBOT "Dan")

Notes:

7. William Fredrick Baker "Fred" (b. March 1881 in TX, m. "Maudie" ?.
Child:

Austin Baker

Notes:

Fred is buried in Texas City, TX.

Fred lived in Galveston at the time of the devastating Galveston hurricane and flood (circa 1905).

8. Maggie Georgia Baker (b. 1884 in TX, m. George BOSTICK)

Notes:

She died shortly after marriage and they had no children.

9. Walter Henry Baker (b. 1886 in Texas)

Notes:

Walter is buried in Bellview Cemetery, Rotan, TX.
He never married.
A family story regarding Walter was that he was a man of incredible strength (somewhere there exists a picture of him lifting a horse off the ground!). According to his nephew, E. Earl Durham, he could cut two cords of wood in a single day--with only a pole ax.

He also had a lot of body hair. A Durham family legend tells the story of this strange body characteristic. When his mother was pregnant with Walter, she heard a knock one day at the door. She got up, and opened the door, only to find herself face-to-face with a large growling bear standing on his two hind legs. The shock, caused her to faint. It was only after she was revived that she learned the bear was in fact tame, and part of a salesman's act. When Walter was born, and was covered with hair, it was said that he inherited the hair from the bear.

Jessie Matilda Baker

Edmund Meadows Durham
10. Jessie Matilda Baker (b. Jan 4, 1888 in La Grange, Fayette County, TX; d. Feb 23, 1959; m. Edmond Meadows DURHAM (b. Dec 31, 1891 in Jasper Co, TX)
Children:

Edmund Earl Durham (b. Aug 28, 1915, m1. Elsie Louise STRALEY, m2. Willie Deanne CARSON/ PATTERSON)

Violet Irene Durham (b. Feb 27, 1917, m. Nial Asher)

Paul Stafford Durham (b. Nov 16, 1926, m. Ethel Louise HAGAR)

Kenneth Ray Durham (b. Jan 18, 1923, m. Mary Lou MEIXNER)

Victor LeRoy Durham (b. Mar 25, 1925; d. July 21, 1944 at Guam - killed in action)

Notes:

Jessie is buried in Grandview Memorial Cemetery, Pasadena, Harris County, TX.

Notes:

Records from the War Departement, The Military Secretary's office, Washington, D.C., dated 8/29/1905 show that S.F.A. Baker, Private, Company E, 2nd Battalion, Waul's Texas Legion, C.S.A., was enlisted June 6, 1862; and that he was transferred to Company E, 1st Battalion of that organization and that he joined on March 28, 1864, but no later record of him is found. There are no rolls of the last mentioned organization subsequent to Feb. 29, 1864 on file.

Stephen is listed on the Confederate Master rolls and is said to have been in the battles of Vicksburg and Manassas, Virginia.

The Lavaca County Texas census shows Daniel Jr., Edward, Joel, and Stephen F. Austin Baker.

Stephen and Harriet are buried in unmarked graves in the Peacock Cemetery, in Aspermont, Stonewall County, Texas. There were members of the Church of Christ.