Bio: Cyrus Baker, Webster Par., Louisiana  
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez
Date: April 2000




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===Cyrus Baker enjoys the reputation of being a substantial and progressive farmer, 
and is intelligent andthoroughly posted on public affairs.  He was born in Walker 
County, Ala., on October 31, 1826, toWilliam and Delilah (Binum) Baker, the former 
a native of South Carolina, and the latter of Alabama. The father removed to Alabama, 
where he was married, and in that State passed from life, when hisson, Cyrus was a 
child, July 15, 1859, having been a farmer and carpenter by occupation.  He grewto 
manhood in Alabama, remaining with some relatives until he was old enough to work, 
then workedas a farm laborer by the month.  He removed to Texas in the fall of 1859, 
and for some timeconducted a blacksmith and repair shop in Nacogdoches County.  
In 1862 he enlisted in CompanyG, Eighth Texas Infantry, and was in the war until 
the final surrender, being in the battles of Mansfieldand Pleasant Hill.  From the 
close of the war up to 1869 he was engaged in farming, then moved toLouisiana, and 
located in what is now Webster Par., Louisianaand has made two farms since his residencehere.  
Since 1881 he has resided on his present farm of 440 acres, of which 150 acres are 
undercultivation, improved nicely with good buildings.  He was married in Alabama, 
in 1854, to MissElizabeth, a daughter of Joshua Henson, she was born in Alabama and 
has borne Mr. Baker thesechildren: William (who is grown and married), John T., Maggie, 
Cyrus J., Mattie, L. W., Theodociaand Thomas F.  Mrs. Baker and her three daughters are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Baker is an honorable, upright citizen in 
every respect, and has kept the name he bears, stainlessbefore the war.