George Baker

George Preston Baker

George Preston Baker was born in Union County, Arkansas on April 11, 1851. He was the son of Amos Monroe Baker and Sarah Ann Vinson Baker. George moved to Texas while he was still a babe in arms. He learned farming and ranching as an occupation. The area where he lived in West Texas is known for the cattle trail there. George probably used his cowboy abilities as he worked on the old Chisum Trail.

When the widowed Sarah Baker moved to Limestone County, Texas in 1870, George moved with her. He soon married Miss Josephine Hughes. Josie was the daughter of Sarah J. Daugherty and William Hughs. We think George married in 1873 in Limestone County, Texas. The Courthouse burned in 1873 destroying all of the marriage records up to that time. Josephine's widowed mother had married Mr. A. L. Pippin. George and Josephine lived in Limestone County and had five known children, Ollie, Claude, Clint, Hugh, and Sallie. Josephine passed away in 1886. She is buried in the Pippin Cemetery, near the little community of Box Church in Limestone County. When Josephine was buried there was a metal head stone placed at her grave. Over the years the headstone has been destroyed.

August 24, 1886 Geroge married again. He married the widowed Mrs. Sallie K. Tong of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas. She was the daughter of J. W. Poole and Mavan Poole. Sallie K. had a daughter named Alabama. By 1910 George and his family had moved to Throckmorton County, Texas. One of George Baker's sons, Bruce was killed in action during World War I at the Arconne Forest in France. George and Katy had five known children, Press, Cull, Bruce, Zay and Mary. In the 1910 Census of Throckmorton County, Kate stated that she had nine children and six of them were living.

Alabama had married Ernest F. Wentworth in Fort Worth. He worked for the rail road. We have not discovered what happened to Alabama, yet. Her children were living with the George Baker family in 1910. The children were Edwin, Eva, and Ernest Wentworth.

George passed away on June 21, 1921. His son Claude said his father died of a heart attack. Kate Poole Baker died March 18, 1936 at Megargel, Archer Co., Texas. Both are buried at the Loving Cemetery, Young County, Texas.

Researched by

Glenda Bass Baker

June 2005

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