Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Baker, Gen. Lawrence S., 1907 

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GENERAL LAWRENCE SIMMONS BAKER

GENERAL BAKER DIED YESTERDAY

WAS HERO OF NEARLY 100 BATTLES

   Suffolk, Va., April 10 - Gen. Lawrence Simmons Baker, the hero of 
approximately 100 battles, lies dead at his home on Main Street, near Market.

   The end came shortly before 2 o’clock this morning.

   The general had been in a feeble condition for two years and since January 
28 had been almost helpless from the result of a paralytic stroke.

   Despite the prolonged duration of his illness, General Baker preserved his 
lifelike looks and when seen tonight appeared as peaceful as when in life.

   General Baker had done active army service in every State and Territory in 
the Union.

   From the time of his graduation at West Point in 1852 until the out break 
of the Civil War, General Baker was a first lieutenant in the United States 
army.

   During his connection with the National army General Baker, then a 
lieutenant, was an officer of the Mounted Rifles.

   When his commission was surrendered in the Union army General Baker entered 
the southern forces from North Carolina.

   He was made a general at the Battle of Brandy Station.  He is sad to have 
been the only Southern officer who was promoted to a general’s command on the 
field of battle.  General Baker’s right arm was mutilated in the Brandy 
Station fight and for his valiant conduct on this field was made a general.

   Mrs. Baker accompanied him everywhere except in the District of Columbia.

   The funeral will take place at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon from St. Paul’s 
Protestant Episcopal Church.  The services will be conducted by Rev. Joseph B. 
Dunn, rector of the church.

   The Tom Smith Camp of Confederate Veterans will take part in the obsequies, 
but the full list of pallbearers had not been selected.

   General Baker would have been 77 years old in May.

   Most of the General’s service was done in the Indian fights in the West.

   General Baker was married in 1855 to Miss Elizabeth E. Henderson in 
Salisbury, N.C.

   There survived him one daughter, Miss Elizabeth Baker, who was born in 
Raleigh, N.C. and two sons, Sheriff Alexander Henderson Baker, of Suffolk and 
Stuart, a Seaboard Air Line conductor, who lives in Norfolk.

   General Baker served as Suffolk agent of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad for 
twenty-seven years.

   He retired when his health became impaired.  For a man who had been so 
badly wounded in battle General Baker was one of the most active men in this 
section.

   As Miss Lizzie Baker said at her mother’s home in Main Street tonight, she 
was proud of her father in life or death.

   Though she did not say so, the General was a scholar, a soldier and a 
gentleman, and the sympathy of the community goes out to the family.


Brig. Gen. Lawrence Simmons BAKER, 1st NC Cav., CSA, 
d. 10 Apr 1907, at home, Suffolk, age 76, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block C, Lot 11*), Suffolk, 12 Apr 1907, 
"The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Thurs., Apr. 11, 1907 

*Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 


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