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Name |
Dixie Davis BAKER |
Birth |
Sep 1860 |
Texas, USA [1] |
Gender |
Male |
Census |
13 Jul 1870 |
Atascosa County, Texas, USA [2] |
- Precinct 1, P. O. Pleasanton
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Census |
1885 |
Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA [3] |
- Precinct 7 (enumerated as a 21 year old unmarried cow hand from Texas)
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Residence |
5 May 1891 |
Carrizo Springs, Dimmit, Texas, USA |
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Census |
8 Jun 1900 |
Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA [1] |
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Residence |
1885: Precinct No. 7, Lincoln County, New Mexico [4] |
Occupation |
Cowboy, Railroad Trackman |
Person ID |
I2977 |
Dyal and Speckels |
Last Modified |
26 May 2008 |
Family |
Missouri A. |
Marriage |
18 Oct 1875 |
Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA [6] |
Divorce |
4 Feb 1892 |
Eddy County, New Mexico, USA [6] |
Family ID |
F990 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
29 Jun 2007 |
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Notes |
- In a letter from Dixie’s wife to his niece Sallie Tumlinson dated October 7, 1887, Missouri states that she had not seen Dixie for more than a year or heard from him for seven months, although only a few days before he had written to her father saying that he was in trouble.
In May of 1891, Dixie wrote two letters, apparently from jail in Carrizo Springs. The stationary was that of Horace Hughes, Sheriff and Tax Collector of Dimmit County. In the letter to his sister Cynthia he talks about his wife, that she is with her parents, that “she is one of the best and kindest harted women in the world,” but that “this thing here has kept me from all thes long 4 years.” He said he thought he wasn’t like back in New Mexico and the people there convinced their sheriff to write to Joe Tumlinson who came and got Dixie. He ended the letter by saying “Every body nearly in that country heard that I was wanted in texas and some of them that Did not not like me worked this thing up for spite and I was sent after.”
In the suit for divorce that Missouri filed against Dixie she stated that Dixie left her on or about 2 Dec 1886, that he returned to Seven Rivers in the summer of 1889 but did not live with her, and at the time of the petition in 1892 Dixie was serving a sentence in the penitentiary. [7, 8, 9]
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Sources |
- [S12] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, Tarrant County, Texas, ED 97, p. 7B, line 56.
- [S10] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Ninth Census of the United States, 1870, Atascosa County, Texas, p. 189(b), line 7.
- [S646] 1885 Territorial Census of New Mexico, Precinct 7, #66.
- [S646] 1885 Territorial Census of New Mexico, Precinct #7, #66.
- [S645] Marriage licenses and marriage bonds (Hardeman County, Tennessee), 1823-1950; indexes, 1823-1950, Marriage licenses and marriage bonds, Mar. & Apr. 1833 - Sept. & Oct. 1841 (cont.); Film: 2137253; DGS: 4538756; Images 398-401 of 2960.
- [S644] District Court Records, Case 14.
- [S636] Letter from Missouri Ann Baker to Sallie Tumlinson.
- [S195] Letter from Dixie Davis Baker to Cynthia Jane Tumlinson.
- [S644] District Court Records.
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