DECATUR COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES - Baker Cemetery
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BAKER CEMETERY

     This is an old family cemetery in northeastern Decatur County at the
end of Baker Cem. Lane. The cemetery fenced and maintained, though it is
now full and unused there may be 50-100 unmarked and fieldstone-marked
graves. David Donahue recorded this cemetery November 28, 1997.

     Doris Scott in recorded this cemetery in 1976. Her record appears in
"Decatur County, Tennessee Cemetery Records" published by the Captain
Nathaniel A. Wesson Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Parsons,
Tennessee, 1984, pp. 28-29. This is referred to as the UDC transcription
in notes below. Doris Scott notes "14 unmarked graves." This low number is
closest to the number of fieldstones. There are many more graves marked
with concrete blocks or visible as surface depressions.


Baker, B. G., 1/11/1818-4/9/1902, "Husband of M. C. Baker" 

Baker, E. P., 6/15/1820-9/11/1843, "Wife of B. G. Baker" 

Baker, G. W., 1859-1940 

Baker, Fannie B., 3/22/1889-9/8/1901, "Daughter of G. W. & G. D. Baker" 

Baker, Frances E., 3/15/1883-7/27/1883, "Daughter of G. W. & G. D.
Baker" 

Baker, Georgia D., 8/1/1858-9/1930\George W., 5/10/1859-1940 

Baker, Margaret C., d. 7/20/1903, "Aged 80 Ys 2 Ms 7 Ds" "Wife of B. G.
Baker" 

Baker, Rachel, 9/1/1782-12/28/1857, "Wife of B. G. Baker, Sr." (broken,
fallen)

Bohanon, ______, d. 11/11/1879, "Child of R. B. & R. L. Bohanon"
(broken, fragments) [information from UDC transcription; marker
identifiable but too fragmentary to read in 1997; 3 yards north
northeast of marker for E. P. Baker]

Bowman, Ernest Lornzo, 6/25/18_9-8/15/1889\Siddie Daisy, 1/25/1889-
8/17/1889 (broken, eroded) [dates unreadable in 1997 and come from UDC
transcription] 

Bowman, M. F., 1/9/1872-9/20/1872 [not found in 1997; from UDC
transcription]

Collett, Rhoda Ann, 8/11/1840-5/28/1876, "Wife of J. W. Collett"
(broken) 

Collett, Christopher, 5/11/1871-9/11/1875, "Son of J. W. & R. A.
Collett" (eroded)

Harris, Wm., 7/12/1823-5/7/1875 (broken, fallen, eroded)


OTHER PEOPLE KNOWN TO BE BURIED HERE

Baker, Augusta Enloe 1890-1890. Possibly child of William E. Baker. Twin
of Edison Carl Baker 

Baker, Edison Carl 1890-1892. Possibly child of William E. Baker. 

Baker, Herbert Carl, 1885-1885. Possibly child of William E. Baker. 

Baker, William Elijah, 9/1/1855-4/28/1923. The UDC transcription notes
that he was born in Decatur County and died in Memphis. "He is buried
next to his mother Margaret Caroline Beasley. On her rock is M.G.
(possibly our error, you have her name -- wife of B. G. Baker.) B.G.
stands for Benjamin Greenway according to [Mr. A. G. Hatch, Jr.].
Rachel, mother of B. G. Baker, Sr., at the time of her death, her name
was Malugin. Her maiden name was Petty -- Born 9/1/1782, Chetham [sic.]
County, N.C. and died 12/28/1857 in Decatur Co., TN."


OTHER PEOPLE POSSIBLY BURIED HERE

Baker, Felton, 1886-1901