Obituary of John Baker 1786-1876 Chattooga County, GA

Transcription of  an article appearing in the Southern 
Christian Advocate, issue of May 16, 1876.

Transcribed by William L. Stephenson, Jr.


John Baker was born in North Carolina, December 9, 1786; and died 
in Broomtown Valley, Chattooga county, Ga., March 12, 1876. 

His parents moving to Georgia while he was young, he grew to manhood 
and married in this State.  His wife being a Methodist, he, soon after 
his marriage professed religion and joined that Church of which he 
remained a consistent and useful member throughout his life.  In each of 
the several counties of the State in which he lived, he held the office of 
Justice of the Peace aggregating in this office a period of sixty-three 
years’ service.   He was also a member of the Legislature and judge of 
the Inferior Court.  In all these positions he served his fellow citizens 
with fidelity and to their advantage.  During a large part of his long 
sojourns on earth, he served the Church as steward and classleader.  He 
was taken sick on the 26th of February last and felling satisfied that 
the attack would prove fatal, he sent for his daughter and son-in-law 
and told then that he had no fears concerning the future, that his 
heavenly Father had separated his sins from him as far as the east from 
the West.  He was in a happy frame of mind, repeatedly praised God on his 
death bed and passed away without a struggle or a groan.  He was buried 
in the Broomtown cemetery by the side of his wife who had preceded him 
to heaven twenty-seven years before.  He reared eleven children of his 
own and one grand-daughter and leaves a great many descendents to morn 
his departure.

						A Son-in-Law


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