This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Baker, Wills, Myers, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TMB.2ACI/3296 Message Board Post: History of Southeast Missouri, Goodspeeds 1888, page 821 H. B. BAKER H. B. BAKER, a well-to-do farmer of Bollinger County, Mo., is a native of Wayne County, Mo. His parents, John and Susie (Wills) Baker, were both born in Missouri. Their parents were natives of North Carolina, who immigrated to Missouri in the early settlement of this State. Both families entered land and erected cabins in which they lived for several years. John Baker was born near the present site of Glen Allen. The farm upon which he was born is now owned by Mrs. Louisa Myers, one of the Baker girls. H. B. Baker was reared in Bollinger County, and at the breaking out of the Civil War enlisted in the Federal Army and saw active service in the western army with Company C. Second Missouri Volunteers. He was one of the number detailed to carry the United States mail from their quarters on Powder River to Fort Laramie and owing to Indian hostilities, were five days making the trip. The command he was with running out of rations, they were compelled for six weeks to live on the ! flesh of horses and mules shot down in battle or that had died from fatigue during this time they had no bread or salt. In many of the skirmishes with Indians, Mr. Baker took an important part, and is speaking of his comrades who were killed or wounded and afterward died, says that after burying the bodies at night they would picket the horses over the graves to destroy all traces of the place of interment lest the Indians should disinter the body and mutilate the remains. Mr. Baker's regiment suffered many hardships, and he is now suffering from disease contracted during his term of service. After the war he was united in marriage with his cousin, Mary Baker, and a happy domestic life has followed. They have eight children: Philip, Cora, Francis, Noah, Allie, Adam, Joseph and Henry.