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Dixie Davis BAKER

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  • Name Dixie Davis BAKER 
    Birth Sep 1860  Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Census 13 Jul 1870  Atascosa County, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • Precinct 1, P. O. Pleasanton
    Census 1885  Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • Precinct 7 (enumerated as a 21 year old unmarried cow hand from Texas)
    Residence 5 May 1891  Carrizo Springs, Dimmit, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • writing from jail
    Census 8 Jun 1900  Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • 1800 Terry (a boarder)
    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 

    Father Lorenzo Dow BAKER,   b. Abt 1804, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 13 Jul 1870 (Age ~ 66 years) 
    Mother Sarah Ann BURLESON,   b. 22 May 1817, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Aug 1878 (Age 61 years) 
    Marriage 15 Jul 1834  Hardeman County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Family ID F980  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Missouri A. 
    Marriage 18 Oct 1875  Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Divorce 4 Feb 1892  Eddy County, New Mexico, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Family ID F990  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Jun 2007 

  • 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]

  • Sources 
    1. [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.

    2. [S10] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Ninth Census of the United States, 1870, Atascosa County, Texas, p. 189(b), line 7.

    3. [S646] 1885 Territorial Census of New Mexico, Precinct 7, #66.

    4. [S646] 1885 Territorial Census of New Mexico, Precinct #7, #66.

    5. [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.

    6. [S644] District Court Records, Case 14.

    7. [S636] Letter from Missouri Ann Baker to Sallie Tumlinson.

    8. [S195] Letter from Dixie Davis Baker to Cynthia Jane Tumlinson.

    9. [S644] District Court Records.