Charles B. Baker, farmer and magistrate, was born in Jefferson County, Tenn., June 17, 1828. His grandfather, John Baker, was a native of North Carolina, and was an early immigrant to Tennessee. He died in East Tennessee, where he had located, the date of his death not being known. His son, John Baker, Jr., was born in East Tennessee, and was there married to Martha Mills, and they became the parents of three sons and two daughters, the subject of this sketch being the third member of the family. The father was a manufacturer of gunpowder, and followed that calling a number of years. He was also engaged in flat-boating from the upper Tennessee River to New Orleans during a certain season of the year, and also followed farming. He was a Confederate soldier, and at the close of the late war settled in West Tennessee. He died at the home of our subject, July 16, 1873. The mother died in Madison County in the winter of 1865. Charles B. Baker was reared on a farm, and has served his county and district as deputy sheriff, constable and magistrate for a period of fifteen years. He enlisted in the Confederate Army in the First Tennessee Regiment, under C. J. C. Carter, and was at Chickamauga, Resaca, Atlanta, and through the Georgia campaign. December 27, 1847, he was married to Nancy A., daughter of Thomas Elmore, a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Baker became the parents of the following children: Joseph W., Michael T., Sallie A., Margaret E., Emma and Charles. Mrs. Baker was born in Jefferson County, Tenn., about 1831. Mr. Baker is a Democrat, and a member of the I.O.O.F. He owns 200 acres of land, and is one of the largest potato growers in West Tennessee.

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