Henry Chesney BAKER (b. March 15, 1843, d. December 19, 1917)
Henry Chesney BAKER was born March 15, 1843 in Abingdon, IL, and died December 19, 1917 in La Canada, CA. He married Martha Elizabeth WEBB on Abt. 1865 in Plum Hollow, IA (now Thurman, IA), daughter of Spencer Creal WEBB and Jemima STREETT.
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A.D. 1843 HENRY CHESNEY BAKER was born in Abingdon Illinois. When he was ten he moved to or near Sidney in Fremont County, Iowa. He writes, "I was four years old when I had the measles - I can remember it all right. You see my Mother had more boys than she had room at the table - at one siting - or standing - for we all stood up at the table till we were ten years old. I remember that Mother made brother John wait and let me eat at the first table because I was sick. I can see my self from the time I was three years old until I was ten when we emigrated from Illinois to Iowa. I think I looked like Roy. (Note: These quotes are from a letter written April 4. 1916, a year before Henry Baker Died in La Canada, California. The "Roy" he referred to is my older brother, now living in Florida.)
We had two covered wagons, one drawn by two horses and one with a Yoke of Oxen. We crossed the Mississippi at Fort Madison and the Des Moines at Eddyville and on to Winterset. Winterset was just put on the map and had one very small store, a saloon, a Blacksmith shop and one hay stack. After we left Winterset, we traveled forty miles without seeing a habitation, and could see deer any day. We crossed the Nishenabotany (sic) River at Haymaker's Mill - not far from where Malvern Now stands and the next place was Tabor------ we had driven our herd of cattle from Illinois ----- about 350 miles. Father bought a claim of 160 acres and it had a rough log cabin - 14 x 16 - clapboard roof - punchon floor and a door with wooden hinges ands a buckskin latch string. There was not a nail or any kind of mettel (sic) used in the making of that cabin. For light from the west l knocked out a big "chunkess" and we could throw a cat through that opening and that remained open all winter. We all had the ague and Father had the chills till he would make the Clabbords on the roof "rattle". end quote.
Henry married my grand mother, Martha Elizabeth Webb (2/26/1846 - 5/5/05) in Plum Hollow, Iowa (now) Thurman April 30, 1865. Both are buried at Thurman Iowa. They had six children, the sixth of whom was my mother - Grace Baker - born June 9, 1881, died June 1. 1964. Compiled in 1975 by Watt Baker Bair.
This report was given to me by Sharon Biller of Austinburg Ohio, June 14TH, 1999.
Harold L. Baker submitter.
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Burial: December 1917, Row 9, North Sec. Thurman cemetery, Sidney TWP, Fremont CO., IA.
Education: Primary
Politics: Republican
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More About Henry Chesney BAKER and Martha Elizabeth WEBB: Marriage: Abt. 1865, Plum Hollow, IA (now Thurman, IA).
Children of Henry Chesney BAKER and Martha Elizabeth WEBB are:
Henry Chesney BAKER (b. March 15, 1843, d. December 19, 1917)
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