MARSHALL COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - Hartwell G. Baker
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HARTWELL G. BAKER was born September 25, 1804, in Davidson County, Tenn.,
where he was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools.  At the age
of twenty-four he left home and began clerking in a store, and at the end of
five years bought out employer's stock, valued at $9,000, on credit, and by
close attention to business succeeded in paying his debt.  He sold goods for
about twelve years and made a snug little fortune, but the war breaking out
about this time, swept away about $25,000 worth of property.  He has redeemed
his fortunes somewhat and owns 225 acres of excellent farming land.  In 1837
he was married to Narcissa J. Haynes, born October 9, 1817, in Cornersville,
and eight children have been born to them, six of whom are living. Mr. Baker
was a Whig, but is now Democrat.  About 1845 he quit the mercantile business
and turned his attention to farming.  He has been a resident of the county
forty-three years and belongs to the Masonic fraternity.   His parents,
Humphrey and Sallie (Hyde) Baker, were born in Virginia and North Carolina,
respectively..  The father moved to Kentucky when a boy and finally located in
Davidson County, Tenn., where he was married.  He was a blacksmith by trade
and a Democrat in politics, and became the father of ten children.  The mother
died in 1834, and the father afterward wedded Mrs. Furr, by whom he had two
children.  Shortly after their marriage they moved to Kentucky, where the
father died during the war.


Surnames: Baker, Furr, Haynes, Hyde
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."