Barton County, Missouri Biographies - Samuel Baker

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889. 
published by Goodspeed, 1889; Pgs. 853, 854--Barton County Biography Section

     Samuel Baker is a native of Shelby County, Ohio, and was born in 1838. 
His parents, George and Susan Baker, were married in Ohio, removing when 
our subject was a small boy to Morgan County, Ill., and afterward to Logan 
County of the same State, where they died.  Mr. Baker was a farmer by 
occupation, and his wife was a member of the church.  Samuel Baker is the 
sixth of twelve sons and two daughters, and was educated in the common 
country schools of Ohio, his boyhood days being spent on his father's farm. 
At the age of twenty years he began doing for himself, and, when the war 
broke out, left the plow to enlist in the army, joining Company C, One 
Hundred and Sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and operated in Tennessee, 
Kentucky and Arkansas, and in 1862, while at Jackson, Tenn., was captured 
while guarding a railroad, and was held in captivity in St. Louis for about
nine months before he was exchanged.  He was mustered out at Pine Bluff, 
Ark., in July, 1865, and reached home just three years to a day after his 
enlistment.  In 1866 he was married to Lucinda, a daughter of Thomas and 
Martha Simpson, the latter being a native of Illinois, in which State she 
also died.  Mr. Simpson is residing at El Dorado Springs.  In 1875 Mr. Baker
removed to Bates County, Mo., and from there in 1877 to Barton County, and 
located on his present well cultivated farm of ninety-three acres, which was
then raw land.  His farm in underlaid with a good quality of coal, which he 
mines to a considerable extent at times, for neighborhood use.  He and wife 
have five sons and two daughters.  

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