This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Baker Waters Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UiB.2ACI/1408.2 Message Board Post: John E Baker is listed as an attorney at the Lebanon bar in 1890. I can take a picture of the page and send it to you if you think it is your John Baker. That is all it has about John Baker; German Baker was a pastor at the Methodist church in 1827; Earl Baker was City school superintendent 1939-1946; Howard Baker ran for U.S. Senate in 1940; R.H.Baker was a doctor it states" The War between the States took many Wilson countians into the service of the Confederacy, among them Dr's......................R.H. Baker " .........................next page" Dr Baker interred the Confederate army as a lad of 16 and was twice taken prisoner. The Lebanon Democrat of October 4, 1934, in an obituary of this Watertown physician credited him with starting the first newspaper there. He practiced medicine for a period of 59 years. further stating "Since the war between the states, there have been many notable physicians scattered over the country who had prepared for the profession at great personal sacrifice in the total desolation that followed total war in Tennessee. They became typical of the ' family doctor" of the highest tradition, much loved, often little paid for their services. Virtually all operated some type of business or farming experience to supplement their income. " It has more about Dr. Baker as his father in l! aw was W.L. Waters the same Waters that Watertown was named after. Waters had a store and a grist mill He also owned every store in town a blacksmith shop a grist mill and a saw mill. I can take pictures of the page and email them to you but it is too much to keep trying to type it out. they were very prominent people in Wilson TN Robert Baker was appointed as Assistant Commissioner of Highways. Baker later served as Commissioner under governor Henry Horton William Baker was there before the settlements it says" The next year, 1766, came the party composed of Col. James Smith, Joshua Horton, William Baker and Uriah Stone. the first named got a creek-Smith's fork-named for him and the last , a river, Stone's river. The party explored that river amd most of its tributary creeks." it also says the indians called the river Wariota. William Baker and party was there just after Daniel Boone Thats all about the Baker except a page or two more on the doctor and Water family. Delia