Hello all, The following article comes from a Dickenson County Newspaper, 1890's. It is about Cornelius "Hick" Baker. Far up in the mountain heights we come to Baker’s Cave, so named from the fact that an old man by the name of Baker seems to have discovered it, and from signs he saw there concluding that treasures were hidden there. He dug holes in the cave; but never found the visionary treasure he sought. There is a maple tree standing near the entrance to the cave, in the smooth bark of which he carved the initials of his name, “H. B.” (Hick Baker). These letters, though plainly visible now, will ere many years pass, become distorted by the growth of the tree, with its effects upon the bark, till they cannot be read. I may add that the old man lived out his allotted three score and ten years, when the inevitable happened, and he went to his reward. The entrance to Baker’s cave is an opening through some rocks, and is circular in form, about three feet in diameter. Once through the opening you are in a spacious room perhaps sixty feet in length by thirty feet in width. It is solid rock over head and on all sides, though rather irregular as for stone. It is quite......... We are looking for family of Socia Hammon(ds). Any help that you can provide would be appriciated. Thanks in advance, Louise Vanover Vore