 1888 - 1932 (44 years)
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| Name |
Joseph Earlie Baker [1, 2] |
| Birth |
30 Mar 1888 |
Buckhorn Township, Harnett Co, North Carolina  [3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
16 Oct 1932 |
Neil's Creek Township, Harnett Co., North Carolina [4] |
| Burial |
17 Oct 1932 |
Cumberland Union Baptist Church Cemetery, Harnett Co., North Carolina [5] |
| Person ID |
I881 |
Gregory Gen |
| Last Modified |
12 Aug 2023 |
| Father |
James Howard Baker, b. 16 Jan 1851, Buck Horn District, Cumberland Co, North Carolina d. 4 May 1908, Buckhorn Township, Harnett Co., North Carolina (Age 57 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Ava Varilla Brown, b. Between Aug 1852 and 1854, Cape Fear, Chatham Co., North Carolina d. 1924, Harnett Co., North Carolina (Age ~ 71 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
Between 1873 and 1874 |
| Family ID |
F103 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Frances Elizabeth Dean, b. 12 Aug 1885, Buckhorn Township, Harnett Co, North Carolina d. 5 Jun 1955, Fuquay Springs, Buckhorn Township, Harnett Co., North Carolina (Age 69 years) |
| Marriage |
24 Feb 1909 |
Buckhorn Township, Harnett Co., North Carolina [6] |
| Children |
| | 1. Essie Mae Baker, b. 9 Apr 1912, Harnett Co., North Carolina d. 13 Jun 1970, Sanford, Lee Co., North Carolina (Age 58 years) [Father: natural] |
| | 2. Leon Early Baker, b. 5 Apr 1914, Neills Creek, Harnett Co., North Carolina d. 13 May 1979, Angier, Harnett Co., North Carolina (Age 65 years) [Father: natural] |
| | 3. Lexie Lee Baker, b. 29 Mar 1916, Harnett Co., North Carolina d. 30 Apr 1962, Harnett Co., North Carolina (Age 46 years) [Father: natural] |
| | 4. Hubert Clarence Baker, b. 2 Jun 1918, Hector's Creek, Harnett Co., North Carolina d. 14 Feb 1986, Coats, Harnett Co., North Carolina (Age 67 years) [Father: natural] |
| | 5. Reese O. Baker, b. 18 Jun 1925, Harnett Co., North Carolina d. 16 Sep 1926, Neill's Creek Township, Harnett Co., North Carolina (Age 1 year) [Father: natural] |
| | 6. William Judd Baker |
| | 7. Roxie May Baker, b. 14 Feb 1910, Buckhorn Township, Harnett Co, North Carolina d. 5 Mar 1914, Harnett Co., North Carolina (Age 4 years) [Father: natural] |
| | 8. Ralph Baker, b. 28 May 1921, Harnett Co., North Carolina d. 21 Dec 1993, Coats, Harnett Co., North Carolina (Age 72 years) [Father: natural] |
| | 9. Mildred Frances Baker |
| | 10. John Green Baker |
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| Family ID |
F302 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
12 Aug 2023 |
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| 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.
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| Sources |
- [S2] 1920 Census, Harnett Co., Hectors Creek TWP ED82 Page 8.
Baker, Early:head:M:W:30:Married:;Francis:wife:F:W:26: Married:;Roxie:daughter:F:W:8: Single:;Essie:daughter:F:W:6:Single:;Lons:son:M:W:3:Single:;Lexie:son:M:W:1:Single:; Walter Olive:adopted:M:W:14:Single
- [S15] 1910 Census.
Joseph E. Baker; M; W;21
- [S11] 1900 Census.
- [S16] Death Certificate of Joe E. Baker.
10/16/1932
Joe E. Baker, age 43, s/o Jim Baker and Annie Brown. Died at 9:00 am on 10/16/1932 of gunshot in the face at home of E. M. Jurdon (Jurdon was convicted of murder)
- [S17] Death Certificate of Joseph Early Baker.
- [S18] Marriage License of Joseph E. Baker & Francis Dean.
J. E. Baker, age 21 s/o J. H. and Ava Baker. Married
Francis Dean, age 21 d/o William and Bety Dean in Buckhorn Twp.
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