TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA - OBITUARIES - Dudley D. Baker, 1 Jun 1922 ----¤¤¤---- Clinch Valley News" Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA Friday, June 9, 1922 TRAGIC DEATH OF D. D. BAKER ____ Boissevain Business Man Accidently Shoots Himself With Shot Gun-Inquest Held at Pocahontas DUDLEY D. BAKER, a well known citizen of this county and prominent business man of Boissevane (sic), met a tragic death last Thursday afternoon. He was killed instantly by the accidental discharge of a shot gun in his own hands. He was hunting, and in crossing a tram way he seemed to have, in some manner, just how will never be known, struck the hammer of his gun against something which caused the gun to fire. His entire right side of his head was torn away. He was subject, it is said, ta (sic) fainting spells, and he may have had one of the spells, and in falling, caused his gun to explode. The accident occurred about a mile from Boissevain, and 150 yards from the home of his son, James Baker. The remains were taken to Pocahontas , where an inquest was held, and the body prepared for burial. Funeral services were held in Boissevain, and also in Falls Mills, where interement (sic) was made, in charge of the Masonic fraternity. Besides a wife who was a MISS TABOR, before marriage, he leave (sic) a family of 8 children, all of whom are married except two daughters. His family have the deepest sympathy in their dire affliction, particularly his aged father, MR. JAMES W. BAKER, who made his home with his son. In this great sorrow which comes to him in his old age, he deserves and receives, the deepest sympathy of his friends. D. D. BAKER, was about 60 years of age, coming to Tazewell with his father’s family, from Louisa county where he was born, about 50 years ago (sic). He was a devoted churchman, a successful lumberman, and a man of unquestioned integrity. [D. D. Baker married Sarah T. ‘Sallie’ Tabor , d/o Stephen Paris Tabor & Eleanor ‘Ellen’ Havens. D. D. Baker’s father was James William Baker and his mother, Fannie Ellis (Baker) Baker. James W. Baker also lived in La Folette , TN., for a few years as he sent letters to the "Clinch Valley News," from that town, in 1916, 1917, and as late as December 20, 1918]. ADDED DATA: 1880 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS # 296 88th Dist BAKER, JAMES W. age 46 Teacher b. VA (all b. VA) .....Fanny E. age 45 wife k-house .....DUDLEY D. age 18 son/farms .....Emily E. age 16 daughter .....Rosa age 14 daughter .....Frank age 12 son .....Mildred age 9 daughter .....Margaret age 7 daughter .....Alfred age 4 son 1900 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS # 84 JEFFERSONVILLE DIST DUDLEY BAKER, 38, b. Feb 1862 in VA (all in home b. VA)., farmer, married 15 years .....Sallie K., (sic), 31, b. Sep 1868 (sic), wife, had had 8 children 7 were living in 1900 .....Everett T., 12, b. Oct 1887, at school, .....James H. 11, b. Jan 1888, at school .....Fanny E. 9, b. Apl 1891, dau .....Alice J., 6, b. Jan 1894, dau .....Hattie, 5, b. Apl 1895, dau .....Rosa S., 3. b. Mch 1897, dau .....Mary E., 1, b. Oct 1898, dau Living on the next property in 1900: (Brother of Dudley Davis Baker) ALFRED M. BAKER, 24, b. Dec 1875 in VA (all in home b. VA), farmer, married 3 years .....Nannie G., 18, b. Sept 1881, wife .....Myrtle, 2. b. Jan 1898, dau .....George M., 9/12, b. Aug 1899, son (9/12=9 months) 1920 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS # 360, Boissevain, Clearfork Dist DUDLEY BAKER, 57 .....Sallie, 51, wife .....Sarah, 22, dau .....Mary E., 21, dau .....Dudley, 15, son JAMES W. DUDLEY, 86, Father Karen EAGLE Moman arizonaeagle@qwest.net July 6, 2002 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Karen EAGLE Moman arizonaegle@qwest.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------------