DeKALB COUNTY, TN - LETTERS - Resolution honoring James Marion Baker, Esq. 
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James Marion Baker, Esq. 
(Letter from the Committee of the Quarterly Court, De Kalb County, Tennessee 
to James Marion Baker's Widow, Barbary Robinson Baker)

	Whereas since the October term of this Honorable Court, it has pleased 
the Great and benificent author of our existence to remove from among us, one 
of our oldest and most highly respected associate, and regular attendance of 
the Quarterly Court in the person of Esquire J. M. Baker, we are pleased in 
honor of his memory to adopt the following resolutions, regarding his death.

	Therefore, be it resolve that the Quarterly Court of De Kalb County, 
Tennessee sincerely regret the death of J. M. Baker, Esq. who has for many 
years been a member of Quarterly Court, for said county, and one of its most 
regular attendance, we realize he has done his life's work well, and is called 
to his reward we cherish his memory and extend to his bereaved wife and 
relatives our deepest sympathy in this hour of their sad bereavement and 
recommend that these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of this Court that 
they be published in the Smithville Review and that a copy be furnished his 
sorrowing wife.

	This January the 4th, 1909.

				Committee: 
				J.E. Drake
				M. H. Pack
				F. L. Foutch
				T. M. Hooper
				B. S. Turner
					
Transcribed by Joan V. Billings, Bobby and Elma Greenwood, 10/19/2003.
Original copy is with Joan V. Billings, Sparta, White County, TN.


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