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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. James Henon Baker: Birth: Jun 1862. Death: 1943 in Ozone, Texas

  2. Martha Louella (Mollie) Baker: Birth: 14 Apr 1865 in Ducktown, Polk County, Tennessee. Death: 27 Sep 1957 in Pensacola, Florida

  3. Jeremiah Meyer (Jerry) Baker: Birth: 18 Aug 1868 in Fannin County, Georgia. Death: 24 Dec 1934 in Morgan County, Alabama

  4. Margaret Ann (Maggie) Baker: Birth: 24 Oct 1871 in Limestone County, Alabama. Death: 7 Jan 1950 in Gadsden, Alabama

  5. George Henry Baker: Birth: 3 May 1873 in Alabama. Death: 6 May 1929 in Jefferson County, Alabama

  6. Jacob Andrew (Jake) Baker: Birth: 30 May 1875 in Morgan County, Alabama. Death: 2 Apr 1946 in Blount County, Alabama


Notes
a. Note:   Sources: On the 3rd day of April, 1877, Henrietta Florida was admitted to Bryce Hospital for the Insane in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The admission records indicate that "the illness came on suddenly after the birth of her last child, and was in the form of monomania". This means she suffered from being obsessed with one's own self. Her family said she was alone at the house while the rest of the family were working in the fields. When the cows got out, she tried to run them up by herself. She suffered a heat stroke. In those days, diagnosis was poor, and treatment was confinement at the request of family. She spent most of the rest of her life in Bryce Hospital. She died there in 1932. Her Death Certificate states she suffered from paranoia. In this day and time, she would never have been institutionalized.
  Sources: After the death of her husband, the children of James and Henrietta were found living with other families in the 1880 census. James Henon Baker was working as a farm laborer in the household of William P. Foster in Morgan County, Alabama.
  Census: 1870 LIMESTONE COUNTY, ALABAMA - Line # 18 - Household # 137 - Township # 4 - Range # 5 - Sheet # 142 - A - Household # 137 James W. Qualls, Male , 60, Farmer, North Carolina Martha, Female, Wife, 52, Farm Laborer, Tennessee Columbus, Male, 16, Farm Laborer, Tennessee Martha , Female, 14, Farm Laborer, Tennessee William , Male, 9, Tennessee Baker James F., Male, Son-in-law, 26 , Farmer, Georgia Baker Henrietta (Qualls), 26 , Housekeeping, Tennessee Presly Jasper , Male, 16 , Farm Laborer, Tennessee Baker James H ., Grandson, 8 , Tennessee Baker Mollie , Female, Granddaughter, 6, Tennessee Baker Jeremiah , Male, Grandson, 2 , Georgia
  Census: 1880 TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, ALABAMA - Court House Census - Insane Asylum - Page # 705 H. F. Baker, Female, Married, 33, NC
  Census: 1910 Tuscaloosa Co., ALABAMA - Bryce Hospital, Tuscaloosa City Enumeration District 156 Page 67, sheet 5B, Ancestry image 10 Enumeration date: 23 April 1910 Enumerator: W. D. Partlow BAKER, Henrietta F., Patient, white Marital status: married one time for 35 years, Page 64, Mother of 6 children, 6 still living, born NC, father born NC, mother born NC, Can read & write
  Census: 1930 TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, ALABAMA - Tuscaloosa City - Bryce Hospital - Enumerated April 14, 1930 - ED# 63-24 - SD# 6 - Sheet # 21 A Henrietta F. Baker, Female, 74, Widowed, GA, GA, TN, Can Read /Write
  1920 Tuscaloosa Co., ALABAMA -Precinct # 16 - Tuscaloosa City - Ward of City: Precinct #1 Enumeration District 121 - Enumeration date: 21 Jan 1920 Name of Institution: Bryce Hospital for Insane - State Institution Page 47A Written on side of page where the street name is usually written: Insane Patients Bryce Hospital Tuscaloosa Alabama Line 21 BAKER, Henrietta Inmate Female, White Age 74, Married Can read & write born NC, father born NC, mother born NC
  Sources: Remembered by William (Billy) Roberts, grandson of Mollie Baker Rose, who was four years old at the time on the river trip. She told her Grandson what she remembered. After the War Between the States, some of the Baker family ran a ferry on the Tocca River. Whether from the Tocca or Oconee River, several families along with many returning Confederate soldiers, decided to pack up everything they owned and post a sign GTT (Gone to Texas). The families of James Qualls and James Baker joined a flotilla of flat-bottomed boats down the river to the Tennessee River to the west. When they left Tennessee, they intended to go to Texas. Upon reaching the dangerous shoals in the area of Decatur, Alabama, the women of the party decided they had gone far enough. The river was not controlled as it is today by various dams and lakes. It was very hazardous to try to cross these shoals areas. Several of the boats were destroyed and women and children drowned. The remaining women of the flotilla issued an ultimatum. We go no further! An Indian translation of the word "Alabama" means "Here we rest". The James Qualls family and the James Baker family went ashore in the Decatur area and eventually settled in Morgan and Limestone Counties of north Alabama.


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