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5. ZILPHA² BAKER (WILLIAM¹) was born 12 December 1802 in North Carolina ³⁷, and died 14 November 1890 in Desdemona, Eastland County, Texas ³⁸. She married BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BARTON, JR. Abt. 1819 in Pendleton District, South Carolina ³⁹, son of BENJAMIN BARTON and DORCAS ANDERSON. He was born Abt. 1797 in Greenville District, South Carolina ⁴⁰, and died 08 October 1843 in Marshall, Harrison County, Texas⁴⁰.

More About ZILPHA BAKER:
Burial: Unknown, Howard Cemetery, Desdemona, Eastland County, Texas
Census: 1850, Rusk County, Texas page 504 & 627

Notes for BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BARTON, JR.:
In 1840, Benjamin and Zilpha (Baker) Barton sold their land to a cousin and set out for Texas. They arrived near Henderson, while it was still Nacogdoches County Benjamin went to Marshall to buy horses, and was killed on the return trip. Buried in an unmarked grave in 1843.

Source: A History of Coleman County and It's People, page 413.

Another source has Benjamin killed in the Regulator-Moderator War in Harrison County, Texas. This source is The Handbook of Texas Online.

His grave is near where he was killed and is marked only by a triangle which states "never to be disturbed", (This was fond on a land deed). Grave is located on HWY 80 west of Marshall, TX. Benjamin had been on a horse trading expedition in Louisiana when he was ambushed near his home, robbed, and killed by hanging from a tree.

Benjamin bought 640 acres from Sam Gholson, part of a league of land surveyed for Arthur Horn.
Source: Caroleen Williams

Rusk County Historical Commission Henderson, Texas
J. Benjamin Barton was born in Spartanburg District ,SC . he married Zilpha Baker, born in Pickens County, SC. he was the son of Benjamin, born 1760 in Pendleton District, SC and Dorcas Anderson Barton. Dorcas was the daughter of John Anderson and Sarah Carney Anderson, natives of South Carolina. Benjamin, born in 1760 was a Revolutionary soldier.

J. Benjamin came to the Republic of Texas, County of Harrison, about 1842, buying six hundred and forty acres of land from Samuel Gholson, said land being a part of a league of land surveyed for Arthur Horn. Some of the other land owners in the area were: William Hall, John B. Hall, George Englsih, and William McKinney.

It was a period of the Moderator-Regulator War when J. Benjamin Barton and Zilpha came to Texas. Family living in East Texas was dangerous. it was referred to as "The Wild Frontier." Benjamin lived west of Marshall, Texas, about three miles or more. Benjamin was clearing land, farming, and trading in horses.

According to family stoies, J. Benjamin had been on a horse trading expedition in Louisiana when, upon his return, her was ambushed near his home, robbed, and killed. He was hanged on a tree. His grave is near where he was killed and is marked only by a triangle which is"Never to be disturbed" (from a land deed) at the present site of Highway 80 east of Marshall. He died in 1843.
After Benjamin died, Zilpha moved with her family to Rusk County, Texas, where Benjamin had a bounty lanbd grant. They lived near the present community of Crims Chapel. They lived in that area at the time of the Mexican War and the War Between the States. Several sons were in one or more of these wars.

There were thirteen known children born to Benjamin and Zilpha, all born in Pickens County SC except the youngest child, Bailey A. who was born in Texas. The children were : James Matison, Baker and Tead (possibly twins), Reubin Patric, Elliott Monroe, Benjamin, M.O. Nancy Averilla, Thomas Jefferson, Waddy Thompson, Melissa D., Lemuel Carroll, and Bailey A.

Thomas Jefferson Barton lived in Rusk County and Married Sarah Jane Brown Everett in 1872. They had three children: Sarah Flora, who married Mumford Sidney Freeman; Johnnie Eugenia , who married Walter Hillen and Thomas, who died young.

More About BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BARTON, JR.:
Name 2: J. Benjamin Barton
Cause of Death: Hanging
Occupation: Farmer & horse trader

More About BENJAMIN BARTON and ZILPHA BAKER:
Marriage: Abt. 1819, Pendleton District, South Carolina ⁴¹

Children of ZILPHA BAKER and BENJAMIN BARTON are:

28.	i.		COL. JAMES MADISON³ BARTON, b. 14 October 1819, Pendelton District, South Carolina; d. 07 September 1879, Henderson, Rusk County, Texas.
	ii.		BAKER BARTON, b. Abt. 1821, Pendelton District, South Carolina ⁴²; d. 27 January 1851, Nueces Strip, Texas⁴².

Notes for BAKER BARTON:
While serving with Lt. Edward Burleson in Commander Rip Ford's Old Company in the Nueces Strip, Private's Baker Barton and William Lackey were killed in a battle against a numerically superior Comanche force near the Nueces River on 27 January 1851.

Lt. Burleson and his company were returning from delivering the prisoner Carne Muerto to the U.S. military authorities in San Antonio, on their way back to Ford's main camp at Los Ojuelos when they surprised three mounted Comanches. The worriors, who were scounting the road most likely to ambush a trader's caravan, immediately retreated. Burleson took a detachment of seven men, leaving the rest of his company to guard the civilians on the road, and pursued the Comanche scouts out onto the plains. Three miles into the chase, the three scouts turned to fight, eleven more Comanche arose from the long grass where they were waiting to ambush the eight Rangers.

This was, as Rip Ford later wrote about it, "One of the most closely contested Indian fights that ever occurred in Texas. It came down to a desperate hand-to-hand combat in which both the Rangers and the Comanche uncharacteristically fought dismounted; also uncaracteristically, the Comanche closed to fight to the death, hung on even after taking serious casualties, and ended up leaving their dead behind when they finally disengaged.

Everyone of the Rangers took hits in the fight, including Lt. Burleson, who received a cut across the brow from an arrow, Jim Carr, William Lackey, Alf Tom, Jim Wilkinson, Jack Spencer and Baker Barton, were all wounded to varying degrees. Pvt. Barton died on his feet, pierced by arrows and bullets as he held onto his saddle horn and fired his rifle over his saddle. Pvt. Lackey lived through the fight, but his wounds later proved mortal. By the time the Comanches broke off the engagement, the Rangers had killed at least four warriors and had wonded all fourteen, some of them seriously. As usual, the Rangers dished out better than they got. James Duncan, who road back to check on Lt. Burleson's detachment when he failded to rejoin the main company, found the exhausted Rangers sitting on bloody ground near their dead or wounded horses, almost unable to move, much less to maintain the pursuit or return to the road. Duncan rode a round trip of 40 miles to bring back water and supplies. A month later, Commander Ford visted the battlefield and found it still littered with arrows the Comanches had fired."

Source: Mr. Thomas' book "They Rode for the Lone Star", compiled from Ranger Commander's memoir (Rip Ford's), Brownsville Sentinel account and the Texas Rangers Papers at the Texas State Library Archives in Austin.

More About BAKER BARTON:
Cause of Death: Killed by Indians
Military service: Texas Rangers

29.	iii.	REUBEN PATRICK BARTON, b. 28 January 1823, Pendelton District, South Carolina; d. Abt. 1862, Weatherford, Parker County, Texas.
30.	iv.	CAPT. ELLIOTT MONROE BARTON, b. 24 December 1824, Pendelton District, South Carolina; d. 04 September 1898, Crim's Chapel Community, Rusk County, Texas.
31.	v.	BENJAMIN K. BARTON, b. 25 January 1826, Pickens District, South Carolina; d. Unknown.
32.	vi.	MANELIUS OLIVER BARTON, b. 04 June 1828, Pickens District, South Carolina; d. May 1865, Mexico or Brown County, Texas.
33.	vii.	AVERILLA NANCY BARTON, b. 04 August 1830, Pickens District, South Carolina; d. 31 July 1884, Canton, Van Zandt County, Texas.
34.	viii.	THOMAS JEFFERSON BARTON, b. 04 June 1832, Pickens District, South Carolina; d. 1881, Louisiana.
35.	ix.	WADDY THOMPSON BARTON, b. 05 April 1834, Pickens District, South Carolina; d. 10 December 1917, Whitney, Hill County, Texas.
	x.	MELISSA E. BARTON, b. 05 February 1836, Spartanburg, Pendelton District, South Carolina⁴²; d. Bef. 1867, Texas; m. WILLIAM P. BAKER, JR., 17 August 1854, Rusk County, Texas ⁴³; b. Abt. 1836, Pickens District, South Carolina; d. 1884 ⁴⁴.

Notes for WILLIAM P. BAKER, JR.:
W.P. Baker
Pvt.
Capt. Samual Carruthers' Company
1st. Regiment Texas Partisans

Appears on Company Muster-in Roll at the organization named above.
Roll dated Camp McCullock, Tex, 12 July 1862,
muster-in date 12 July 1862,
joined for duty and enrolled
When: 12 July 1862
Where: Buchanan, Texas
By Whom: Lt. J.W. Berry
Period: for 3 years.

No. of miles to rendezvous: 65
Valuation of Horse: $150.00; equipment: $20.00

This Company subsequently became Company E, 30th Regiment Texas Cavalry (also known as the 1st Regiment Texas Partisan Lancers and as Gurleys Regiment Texas Partisan Lancers) was organized 18 August 1862 with ten companies A to K.

Company E, 30 Texas Cavalry. (Gurley's Regiment. 1 Texas Partisans.) ancestry.com

More About WILLIAM P. BAKER, JR.:
Individual Note: See Related Files "The Service Record Notes of William P. Baker"
Military Branch: County E, 30th Texas Calvary
Military service: CS Army
War Veteran: Civil War

Marriage Notes for MELISSA BARTON and WILLIAM BAKER:
Malissa Barton was his first cousin. Her mother Zilpha Baker and his father William P. Baker were brother and sister.

More About WILLIAM BAKER and MELISSA BARTON:
Marriage: 17 August 1854, Rusk County, Texas ⁴⁵

36.	xi.	LEMUEL CARROL BARTON, b. 13 February 1839, Pickens District, South Carolina; d. 23 June 1921, Brown County, Texas.
37.	xii.	TEAD BARTON, b. 13 February 1839, Pickens District, South Carolina; d. Unknown.
38.	xiii.	BAILEY ANDERSON BARTON, b. 21 March 1842, Houston, Republic of Texas; d. 12 August 1912, Eastland County, Texas.

6. MARY² BAKER (WILLIAM¹) was born Abt. 1803 in Pendelton District, South Carolina ⁴⁶, and died 09 March 1891 in Pickens County, South Carolina ⁴⁷. She married (1) WILLIAM MURPHREE Bef. 1816 in Pendleton District South Carolina⁴⁷, son of MOSES MURPHREE and LUCINDA BROWN. He was born 1790 in Twelve Mile, Pendleton District, South Carolina, and died 08 August 1846 in Twelve Mile, Pickens District, South Carolina. She married (2) THOMAS S. ALEXANDER March 1856⁴⁷, son of DANIEL D. ALEXANDER. He was born 1785 in Virginia, and died October 1856 in Pickens District, South Carolina.

Notes for MARY BAKER:
Was living with daughter Sarah (Murphree) Stewart on the 1860 Pickens County, SC Census. page 127b & 128a.

More About MARY BAKER:
Nickname: Polly

More About WILLIAM MURPHREE and MARY BAKER:
Marriage: Bef. 1816, Pendleton District South Carolina⁴⁷

More About THOMAS ALEXANDER and MARY BAKER:
Marriage: March 1856⁴⁷

Children of MARY BAKER and WILLIAM MURPHREE are:

39.	i.	JAMES MADISON³ MURPHREE, b. 05 August 1816, Twelve Mile, Pendleton District, South Carolina; d. 09 September 1878, Pickens County, South Carolina.
	ii.	DAVID MURPHREE, b. Abt. 1820, Pendelton District, South Carolina⁴⁷; d. Unknown; m. LUCINDA COBB; b. 1818⁴⁷; d. Unknown.
40.	iii.	ELIZABETH A. MURPHREE, b. 11 January 1823, Pendelton District, South Carolina; d. 13 June 1860, Twelve Mile, Pickens District, South Carolina.
41.	iv.	SARAH MURPHREE, b. 1825, Pickens District, South Carolina; d. Aft. 29 June 1860, Pickens County, South Carolina.
42.	v.	JOHN S. MURPHREE, b. 1826, Pendelton District, South Carolina; d. Unknown, Pickens County, South Carolina.
43.	vi.	MOSES N. MURPHREE, b. 1827, South Carolina; d. October 1883, Pickens County, South Carolina.
	vii.	BENJAMIN R. MURPHREE, b. 1833, Pickens District, South Carolina ⁴⁸; d. Unknown, Pickens County, South Carolina.
44.	viii.	JAMES NIMMONS MURPHREE, b. 28 May 1835, Twelve Mile, Pickens District, South Carolina; d. 06 February 1903, Pickens County, South Carolina.
	ix.	MARY REBECCA MURPHREE, b. 1838, Pickens District, South Carolina ⁴⁹; d. Unknown, Pickens County, South Carolina; m. JOHN W. NEAL; d. Unknown.

Child of MARY BAKER and THOMAS ALEXANDER is:

EMILIA³ ALEXANDER, d. Unknown; m. JOURDAN RICE; d. Unknown.

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