ROBERT C. BAKER

BAKER, PARKS

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 7/20/2009 at 20:22:01

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

ROBERT C. BAKER, deceased; born March 2, 1816, in Kentucky; died Feb. 17, 1868. Married Margaret Parks, March 5, 1838; she was born Aug. 1, 1815, in South Carolina; in 1849, they came to Appanoose Co.; they own 320 acres of land, which he entered; had ten children, eight living - Hugh H., James W., Harrison, Henry C., Benjamin F., William, Margaret J. and Annie E. James W. and Harrison served in the 36th Iowa Inf. during the late war. Christian Church.