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Note: 2 years old by June 1880.
Death date is from Civil War Pension File Records.
Death Record Request, Michigan Dept. of Community Health: Search indicated no death record for Abraham Baker has been registered with State of Michigan, January 15, 2003.
My earliest census record of Abraham is in Manhatten Township of Lucas Co., Ohio in 1860. He is listed as a fisherman for occupation. Manhatten is now part of the City of Toledo on the mouth of the Maumee River. Abraham probably fished Lake Eri for the Toledo Market.
Marriage Records, Lucas Co., Ohio, 1835 - 1884, Year: 1855, Abraham Baker and Caroline Greenman, Married June 24, 1855 by H. Conant, J.P.
Abraham then enlisted in the Army 21 Oct 1861 in Toledo. I am puzzeled why a person with a wife and child would enlist at the age of 40. Did he have relatives in K Co., of the Ohio 67th Infantry? Maybe a son which is possible at his age from another marriage.
Abraham was captured in 1862 at Strasburg, Virginia by confederate forces. This was at a time when Stone Wall Jackson was making many brilliant rapid manouvers to try and capture Washington and he did not want to spare troops to guard or escort prisoners to POW camps. The Generals of the different armies worked out an agreement to exchange prisoners on the promise that the prisoners would not actively engage in any further combat, fortunate for me, for the rest rest of the war. Abraham, very sick by now and once forced to march four days with probably parisitic dysintery, ended up in a hospital in Virginia. He served the rest of his enlistment as an orderly at various hospitals.
After his discharge in 1864 Abraham moved to VanBuren Co., Michigan where he remaind, married to Caroline GREENMAN Baker until her death in 1886, on their farm in Geneva Township.
Abraham is noted in the: VanBuren County Gazetteer and Business Directory, Hill & Leavens Decatur, Mich., 1869; Abraham Baker & References to other Baker residence and business.
I located Abraham Baker's 40 acres on the: Platt Map, 1873 VanBuren Co., Geneva Twp., 1873: A. Baker located in SW corner of Section 28 Geneva Township.
Census: 1850, Providence Twp., Lucas Co., Ohio page 141, line 28. 1850, Baker, Abram; age 31, male, Laborer, bp. Penn. This is probably Abraham Baker.
Note: I interpolated the birth date of 1818 from the 1880 Census report stating that Abraham was 6
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