Henry Baker (1842 - 1926)

Born 25 Apr 1842 in Boles, Scott, Arkansas, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary G. (Hays) Baker — married 1866 in Tarrant, Texas, United States

Husband of Louisa Phenolia (Long) Baker — married 15 May 1890 in Zephyr, Brown, Texas, United States

Died 4 May 1926 at age 84 in Zephyr, Brown, Texas, United States

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Biography

Died 4 MAY 1926 in Zephyr, Brown Co., TX. Cause: Killed by a Train.

Occupation: Also was a farmer and Blacksmith. Texas Ranger and Soldier. Member of the Methodist Church. Master Mason.

Notes

Henry Baker was a Texas Ranger for 2 years. He was stationed at Fort Concho in San Angelo, TX, and also Fort Stockton for awhile. Henry was a Ranger when the Civil War started. He enlisted in the Confederate Army for 4 years. At one time Henry received 8 bullet holes in his clothing and his hat. Suffered 3 different wounds, one being a scalp wound. Another bullet took off the top of his right ear. Another struck his foot. He was in the hospital once with a really bad hand. The doctors were talking about taking it off. Henry put his pistol under his pillow, and when the doctors came in he said he did not want his hand removed. The doctors talked rough to him, so he took his gun in his good hand and told them they could not take his hand off. They said he would die. He answered, "If you will give me good care I will live and have two hands, but if you cut my hand of I may die, and if not I will be a cripple." So they left him and he recovered. Henry was a blacksmith and kept a blacksmith shop. He made several trips to California, and lived a while in Washington. He also lived for awhile on the Calaveras River near Valley Spring, CA. beside his brother Josephus who lived and panned gold there and was eventually killed there. Henry did not swear or drink whiskey. He was a member of the Methodist Church and was a Master Mason. Henry was killed by a train a few miles south of Zephyr, TX at age 84.

1880 Census- Brown Co., TX pg 365B - names Henry, 38, AR; Mary G. 35, KY; William, 13, TX; Mary E., 10, TX; Joseph, 8, TX; George, 6, TX; Effee, 3, TX; Emma, 9m, TX

Sources

• Andrew Baker & His Descendants by Frieda Sims Nelson, 1975 pg 124

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFFP-Y2Z : 15 July 2017), Henry Baker, Precinct 4, Brown, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 26, sheet 427A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,292.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6541411/henry-baker