Baker Family

Genealogy

                          Baker Family
"The Baker Train", under the leadership of Captain John Twitty Baker, gathered, and made their preparations for their journey, in the area of William C. Beller's homestead at Milum Spring (also called Caravan Spring) in Crooked Creek Township, Carroll County, Arkansas, near the location of Minerva Ann (Beller) Baker's late father's store called "Beller's Stand".
                       THE ARKANSAS EMIGRANTS

JOHN TWITTY BAKER
GEORGE WASHINGTON BAKER
MINERVA ANN (BELLER) BAKER
MARY LOVINA BAKER
ABEL BAKER
SARAH C. (BAKER) MITCHELL

THE BAKER TRAIN MEMBERS

DEPOSITIONS On behalf of John Twitty Baker:
Mary Baker (22 October 1860)
John H. Baker (22 October 1860)
John Crabtree (22 October 1860)
Hugh A. Torrence (23 October 1860)

DEPOSITIONS On behalf of George W. Baker
Joseph B. Bains (23 October 1860)
William C. Beller (23 October 1860)
John H. Baker (23 October 1860)
Irvin T. Beller (23 October 1860)

Last Will & Testament of John T. Baker

Earliest Accounts of the surviving Baker Children

Martha Elizabeth (Baker) Terry's Account of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Sarah Frances (Baker) Mitchell's Account of the Mountain Meadows Massacre

BAKER DEPOSITIONS - article by Judge Roger V. Logan, Jr.

The Other Baker Train - The Smith Train Massacre
Also see: A Confusion Of Massacres

Baker Family Genealogy

Survivors of the Mountain Meadows
Massacre

Sarah Frances (Baker) Mitchell
Martha Elizabeth (Baker) Terry

William Twitty Baker

In Memoriam

George W. Baker, 27
Manerva A. Beller Baker, 25
Mary Lovina Baker, 7
Wards of George and Manerva Baker:
Melissa Ann Beller, 14
David W. Beller, 12
John T. Baker, 52
Abel Baker, 19

The Following Children Survived and were returned to their relatives in 1859:

Children of George and Manerva Baker:

Martha Elizabeth, 5
Sarah Frances, 3
William Twitty, 9 months