Ralph Richard Baker

Notes:

[Death Certificate]

Certificate Number: 5300017
Date Filed: 05/04/1953
Sex: MALE
Date of death: 04/11/1953
Deceased's Name: BAKER, RALPH RICHARD
Volume: 41
page: 17

Notes:

[North Carolina Deaths, 1990-94]

Name: BAKER, RALPH
Date of Birth: May 28, 1921
Death Date: December 21, 1993
Sex: Male
Race: White
Age: 72 Years
Place of Occurrence: Erwin, Harnett, North Carolina
Place of Residence: . Harnett, North Carolina
Autopsy: No
Hospital: General Hospital 20-34 Beds
Marital Status: Married
Attendant: Physician
Mode of Burial: Burial in state
State of Birth: North Carolina
Social Security Number: 240260886
Fathers Surname: BAKER
Place of Injury:

Ralph married Ila Elizabeth Barefoot [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[Linda Gardner]

Joseph Earlie and Frances had nine children: Roxie May, Essie May, Earlie Leon, Lexie Lee, Hubert Clarence, Ralph, William Judd, Reese O. and Mildred Frances.

Joseph Earlie Baker was a small frame man with curly black hair which he wore parted down the middle. He was known for having the finest mules in the county. He kept them clean with their manes trimmed and looking good. He liked his mules to be young and frisky and to dance, no slow prodding mule for him. He bought a new team of mules every other spring. He also liked to trade cars every other year.

Joseph Earlie died 16 October 1932 in Harnett County, N. C.. He was shot with a shotgun by Ed M. Jurdon. (Jurdon drowned himself before his second trial - first trial ended in a hung jury).

When Earlie died Frances was broke. The farm was mortgaged and the bank was going to foreclose. She had to sell all the farm equipment, even the hoes. Clossie Williams offered to rent Frances a farm and furnish her everything. All she would have to provide would be the labor. He owned several farms and said she could have her choice. When she told him she wanted to keep her farm, he suggested she talk to Nathan "Cotton" Johnson in Dunn.

Jody Mills took Frances and her son, Judd age nine, to Dunn to talk with Cotton Johnson. Frances told him her financial situation and asked if he could help. Johnson called the Raleigh Land Bank and verified what was owing on the farm and the yearly payment. [This was the first time that Judd had seen a telephone (it was a crank type) and he was amazed that the man could talk to someone in Raleigh and that he (Judd) could not hear them. He said he was "awe struck".] Johnson made arrangements for Frances to pay the yearly payment to buy the farm and agreed to sell her all the equipment, supplies and groceries she would need on credit until she sold her tobacco crop the following year. He told her she could buy groceries on credit at his store or at Layton's store in Lillington or Reid Smith's store in Kipling. The agreement was for Frances to pay the mortgage by November 1st and then pay Johnson what she could. Johnson told her that he would bend over backwards to help someone that he felt was trying to pay him what they owed him, but if someone tried to cheat him he would take everything they had and even pull up the collards in their garden. That was how he got the name of being a hard man.

Frances farmed the land with the help of her children and in a couple of years had paid Johnson all she owed him. In a few more years she paid off the mortgage on the farm and hired Neil Henry McLeod to build a new house on the road.

Frances died the 5th of June 1955 in Harnett County and is buried at Cumberland Union Church with Joseph Earlie.

Joseph married Frances Elizabeth Dean on 24 Feb 1909 in Buckhorn Township, Harnett Co., North Carolina. Frances (daughter of William Parker Dean and Elizabeth J. Wilson) was born on 12 Aug 1885 in Buckhorn Township, Harnett Co, North Carolina; died on 5 Jun 1955 in Fuquay Springs, Buckhorn Township, Harnett Co., North Carolina; was buried in Cumberland Union Baptist Church Cemetery, Harnett Co., North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Laura Jane Phillips on 19 Sep 1920. Laura was born on 21 Jun 1903; died in Dec 1984 in Dunn, Harnett Co., North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[Social Security Death Index]

Individual: Barefoot, Laura
Social Security #: 239-90-4866
Issued in: North Carolina
Birth date: Jun 21, 1903
Death date: Dec 1984
Residence code: North Carolina
ZIP Code of last known residence: 28334
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:
Dunn, North Carolina

Notes:

Harnett County was organized on Feb. 7, 1855. Prior to that date it was part of Cumberland County.
In the 1850 Census the Bakers were in the Northern Division of Cumberland County.
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1850 Census: Page 130

James' parents, Jackson Jeremiah and Malinda, are newlyweds without any children.
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1860 Census: Page 468

James is listed as age 10, and is the oldest child of Jeremiah and Malinda. He has 3 brothers and 1 sister.
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1870 Census: Page 39

James is still living at home with his parents "J. J." and Malinda.
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1880 Census: Page 8

James H. is now shown as 28 years old. His wife Ava A., age 24 with three sons, William H. (b. 1875), Donnie E. (b. 1876), Walter S. (b. 1878) and one daughter, Lenor E. (b. 1/1880).

Census Place: Buckhorn, Harnett, North Carolina
Source: FHL Film 1254967 National Archives Film T9-0967 Page 79D
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
James H. BAKER Self M M W 28 NC
Occ: Farmer Fa: NC Mo: NC
Avy A. BAKER Wife F M W 24 NC
Occ: Keeping House Fa: NC Mo: NC
William H. BAKER Son M S W 5 NC
Fa: NC Mo: NC
Donnie E. BAKER Son M S W 4 NC
Fa: NC Mo: NC
Walter S. BAKER Son M S W 2 NC
Fa: NC Mo: NC
Lenor E. BAKER Dau F S W 4M NC
Fa: NC Mo: NC
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1900 Census:

James H. is listed as being born in January of 1848 and claims on the Census that he is 52 years old and has been married for 26 years. His wife is now shown as Sarah A., born in August of 1852, making her 47 years old. She has borne twelve children, eleven of whom are still living. Lenor has died. Donnie is living out on his own. W. Oscar has married and moved out, Stellie is living with him.
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1910 Census:

Mrs. Ava Baker is Head of Household. James H. has died. Ava states her age as 58. Living with her are: Bernice (27), Luanne (19), Lillian (16) and Burtis (14). Two doors down lives Joseph E. Baker (21) with his wife, named Frances (26) and their daughter Roxy, newborn.
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James married Ava Varilla Brown between 1873 and 1874. Ava (daughter of Madison Hill Brown and Sarah Elizabeth Underwood) was born between Aug 1852 and 1854 in Cape Fear, Chatham Co., North Carolina; died in 1924 in Harnett Co., North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[Linda Gardner]

Ava was a midwife and delivered many children according to the birth records
seen. She was sometimes called Betty. After Jim's death Ava lived with her daughter and son-in-law, Effie and Jody Mills. She was visiting her son, Donnie, when she died about 1924.

Notes:

[1880 Census]

Census Place: Buckhorn, Harnett, North Carolina
Source: FHL Film 1254967 National Archives Film T9-0967 Page 80A
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Parker W. DEAN Self M M W 39 NC
Occ: Farmer Fa: NC Mo: NC
Elizabeth DEAN Wife F M W 23 NC
Occ: Keeping House Fa: NC Mo: NC
John A. DEAN Son M S W 3 NC
Fa: NC Mo: NC
William H. DEAN Son M S W 1 NC
Fa: NC Mo: NC
Dilly DEAN Mother F S W 73 NC
Fa: NC Mo: NC

William married Elizabeth J. Wilson in 1875. Elizabeth (daughter of Sherwood Wilson and Rebecca Knight) was born on 15 Jan 1856 in Upper Little River Township, Harnett Co., North Carolina; died on 17 Feb 1926 in Harnett Co., North Carolina; was buried in Cumberland Union Baptist Church Cemetery, Cokesbury, Harnett Co., North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Israel married Augusta Smith about 1898. Augusta was born about 1876. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]