Bertha married Walter Franklin Baker on July 15, 1905 in Olathe, Johnson County, Kansas. His Obituary said, "Walter F. Baker, 64 years old, a widely known Johnson County farmer who retired a month ago, was found dead in a tourist cabin at Miami, Oklahoma, Saturday afternoon, according to word received today at Olathe, Kansas. Sheriff Emmett Pitt of Johnson County, who contacted Oklahoma authorities, said Mr. Baker died of heart disease sometime Friday night.

A brother of Robert Baker, a former Johnson County probate judge, now of Haviland, Kas., Walter F. Baker was born and reared in the Belleview community, ten miles northeast of Olathe. Last November 4, he held a farm sale, disposing of his farm equipment. He retained ownership of a 280-acre farm however. He and his wife had been in Phoenix, Ariz., visiting a son, Dale M. Baker. Last week he returned to Olathe on business. He was on the way back to Phoenix when he was stricken.

Besides his widow, his son, and brother, he leaves a daughter, Mrs. Edith Baldwin, Dallas, Texas. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday at the Julien Chapel at Olathe. Burial will be in Olathe Cemetery.

Walter was son of Alexander Baker and Martha Stuteville Baker.

Bertha Baker was Daughter of John Hardin and Lois Iantha (Smith) Johnson. John Hardin Johnson was son of DABNEY JOHNSON, SON OF MICAH.
The following was researched and written by Bertha's granddaughter, June. The original is from "Micah Johnson's Biography" found in the Howard County, Missouri Genweb. It is also found in "The Johnson's and Their Connections:" My grandmother had a wonderful memory and supplied me with hundreds of names and dates of all our relatives, including many photos. I asked her if she could remember anything about her grandparents and she told me her Johnson ancestors lived "SOMEPLACE IN VIRGINIA" in an area where they could set on their porch in the evening and could see the fires on a mountain top where the Indians were dancing and this place was called, "THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE." This was all that she had remembered about her great grandparents.

On a map of Floyd County, Virginia, I discovered a cemetery named "The Devil's Backbone." The Indians were very superstitious when it involved spirits from the dead and they no doubt did their dance here on the gravestones to keep the spirits in good humor or drive away the evil ones.

In Micah's day, the location of the Devil's Backbone Cemetery was in Franklin County, Virginia. This area became Floyd County in 1831 when it was formed from Franklin. The cemetery itself is at an elevation of 2708 feet at the point of the mountain where Blackwater Valley can be seen. There is a sheer knife-like spur jutting out between this overlook and Pine Spur. The cemetery is still there today (1994).

Micah apparently inherited quite a bit of property, as in 1782 he was listed on the Henry Co., VA tax list as Michael Johnson with fourteen slaves, a large number for the area, especially for such a young man. Franklin County would be formed out of part of Henry four years later in 1786.

By 1788, however, he either owned no slaves or had hired them all out:
1788 Franklin Co., VA tax list
Michael Johnson
One white over 16
No blacks over 16
No blacks 12-16
Three horses

1799 Franklin Co., VA, tax list
Michael Johnston
One white tithe [male over 16; Michael]
One black male
Two horses
Amount of tax = 68 [the highest in his neighborhood]

In 1810, Micah and family are listed four names away from John Hall, whose sons would later go to Missouri with them. Elijah Brockman is also nearby. In addition to his wife and six sons still at home, Micah is listed as the owner of three slaves, one of them the man named Tom who he later freed in Missouri.

1825 Mar 19 -Patrick Co, VA - Recorded: Apr 1825-Deed Bk 6:393 - Indenture of Bargain & Sale: MICAH JOHNSON SR of Patrick to MICAH JOHNSON JR of same.. $100 for 75 acres in Patrick Co on waters of Smith River.. Beg. on a Spanish oak near a branch on WM. AYRES line..thence down the branch as it meanders to a white oak on HAIRSTON'S line.. thence with his line to a corner gum.. thence a straight line to a corner red oak on AYRES line.. thence with his line to the beg.. /s/ MICAH JOHNSON SENR..
Wit: M. Sandefur, Wm. Hancock, Clark Penn.

1828 January 29 - Patrick Co, VA - Deed Book 7:3-4
MICAH JOHNSON SR., and wife MARY and MICAH JOHNSON JR sold to JONATHAN HUBBARD, all of Patrick.. $300 in cash along with a pony, a sorrel mare which belonged to Jesse Hubbard Sr.. which was agreed upon to be worth say $50.. for 100 acres lying in Patrick County joining lands of: HAIRSTON, WILLIAM AYERS, JILL'S CREEK, to HUTCHINS (now Isaac Adams) /s/ MICAH JOHNSON SR, MARY (x) JOHNSON, MICAH JOHNSON JR. Wit: Wm. Ayers, John Tuggle, James Tuggle.

The Johnsons left Patrick County right after the above deed and arrived in Howard County, Missouri before May 30th (1828) when he entered 80 acres for a Patent.

In 1828 or the spring of 1830?, reportedly, some of the Johnson family went west on a huge wagon train leaving Patrick Co. bound for Jackson Co., MO. They settled in Howard Co., MO. Michael's son Michael Jr. may have also traveled with them, but continued on to Jackson County. Son Larkin had already settled in Jackson Co. in Nov 1822, and son Dabney was there no later than Aug 1827. Other families on the wagon train were named Harris (Larkin's in-laws), Corn, Luttrell, Koger, Slaughter, and Boothe.

In Howard County, Micah lived next door to his son John and family. His wife Mary died before 1830. Micah lived next door to his son John and family.

About 1834, Micah, age 78 remarried. He wrote his will to provide for his new wife. In it, he bequeathed to his wife (not named) all his property of every kind except what may be necessary for the payment of debts.

LAST WILL of MICAH JOHNSON SR
Written: 15 Aug 1834 - Howard County, Missouri - Will Book 3:176; Proved: 24 Sep 1849 - Howard County, Missouri
Admr: Son, John Johnson and JAMES HALL
Wit: John Cooper, Beckto Jernigan & William Leekey/Leakey (dec'd by 1 Dec 1834)


"I, MICAH JOHNSON of Howard County, Missouri do make ordain and publish my Last Will and do hereby revoke all former wills.
I desire that all my just debts be paid..
I will to MY WIFE for and during her natural life and NO LONGER all my property of every kind except what may be necessary for the payment of debts
To my SON, JOHN JOHNSON.. I will the tract of land upon which I now reside being East half of the North East Quarter of Section 23 in Township 50 of Range 18 in Howard County [Micah was original patentee on 30 May 1828]..
I will that my MAN SLAVE TOM shall become and be free after the death of myself..
After my wifes death all my property of every kind (except the land given to my son JOHN JOHNSON and the SLAVE TOM) shall be sold in publick sale upon 12 months credit and the proceeds of said property be distributed as follows:
To each of my children:
NATHANIEL JOHNSON,
MARTIN JOHNSON,
DABNEY JOHNSON [**],
MICAH JOHNSON,
LARKIN JOHNSON,
I give out of the proceeds of said sale, the said sum of two dollars, these children I have provided for in my life time by giving to them their share of my estate and therefore I made no further provisions for them in this Will.
The residue of the proceeds of said sale after deducting the two dollars to each of the above named children I desire may be equally divided between
my son JOHN JOHNSON and
my daughter SUSANNAH DEHART and
my GRANDSON, SAMUEL JOHNSON, son of SAMUEL JOHNSON and
JOHN F. JOHNSON, son of FLEMING JOHNSON and my will is that what is herein given to my daughter SUSANNAH DEHART shall at her death be to her children and that what is givin to my two grandsons, SAMUEL JOHNSON & JOHN F.JOHNSON shall be put out at interest by my Executors and keep at interest until they become of age and that the principal and interest shall be paid to my said grandsons as they respectively become of age and not before.
I constitute my son JOHN JOHNSON and JAMES HALL Executors of this Will. In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal this 15th day of August 1834.. /s/ MICHA (x) JOHNSON
Signed and sealed by the said MICHA JOHNSON in our presence on this day of August 1834 and in testimony thereof we have hereunto at the request of the said Micha Johnson and in his presence and in the presence of one another signed and named
witnessed:
BECKTO JERNIGAN,
JOHN COOPER,
WILLIAM LEEKEY..

6 August 1834, Howard Co., MO, using the name Micah Johnson he applied (No.R.5648) for a Revolutionary War pension.
"He cannot state with precession the length of his services in the war but according to the first of his recollection he served not less than the times mentioned below as a private:
For 8 months he was upon 4 several occasions as a drafted Militia man under Capt. Robert Turner & for these services he claims a pension.
This applicant does not recollect that he ever received any written discharge and if he did he has long since lost it.. he knows of no living witness by whom he can prove his services nor any soldier of his GREAT AGE and because of memory he is unable to give a more complete statement of his services as a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
He states that he is known in his present neighborhood to the Reverend William M. Burton and to John DeHart and to James Hall the second one had known him for 20 years and the latter for 15 years..who can testify as to his character for truth and veracity and thus belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. [John DeHart was his son-in-law and James Hall married Jane Burnett; all from Patrick Co., VA].
He knows of no living witness by whom he can prove his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or an annuity except the present one.. he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.. /s/ MICAH JOHNSON - Sworn and subscribed to by the said MICAH JOHNSON in open Court the day and year first above mentioned... JOHN B. CLARK, CLERK.

1840 census, Howard Co., MO, page 31
Michael Johnson
One male age 50-59 [Micah, actually 84 years old] One female age 50-59 [Mary]

Micah Johnson's children:

1. Nathaniel Johnson, b. 28 Feb 1782; d. after 1860, Rocky Mt., Franklin Co., VA; m. 16 Oct 1809, Franklin Co., VA to Elizabeth Osborne [b. 1791 VA; d. after 1860, Rocky Mt., Franklin Co., VA.

2. Susanna Johnson, b.c. 1780-1788, Franklin Co., VA;
d. 1834-1850, Howard Co., MO; m. 1/ 24 Jun 1808, Franklin Co., VA to Richard Booth [her father gave bond]; m. 2/ 4 Oct 1827, Patrick Co., VA John DeHart.

3. Samuel Johnson, b.c. 1786, Franklin Co., VA; m. 20 Dec 1811, Franklin Co, VA to Matilda Brockman [Bondsman was John Dodd & her mother Elizabeth consented]; his reported death date is d. Nov 1821, Cooper Co., MO, but this conflicts with the 1840 census, which indicates he died no earlier than 1835, Howard Co., MO.

4. Martin Johnson, b.c. 1787 [1784?], Franklin Co., VA; m. 29 July 1812, Franklin Co, VA to Dosha Griffith [ceremony performed by Baptist Rev. Wilson Turner].

* 5. DABNEY JOHNSON, b.c. 1788, Franklin Co., VA; d. 1835, Jackson Co., MO; m. Jan 1813, Patrick Co., VA, to Elizabeth Burnett [daughter of Jeremiah Burnett III and Effaniah Crowley];

6. Larkin John Johnson, b.c. 1794, Franklin Co., VA; he d. 1877, Jackson Co., MO; buried in the "Harris-Johnson" (now Luttrell) Cemetery on the old Luttrell farm; m. 26 Jan 1818, Patrick Co., MO, to Sarah Ann Harris, b. 1798, Patrick Co., VA; d. 1865, Jackson Co., MO; daughter of Reuben Harris and Margaret McAlexander.

7. Micah or Michael Johnson Jr., b.c. 1795, Franklin Co., VA; m. 1820, Patrick Co., VA, to Judith Burnett [daughter of Jeremiah Burnett III and Effaniah Crowley]; he d. 1840, Independence, Jackson Co., MO; buried at the "Harris-Johnson", now Lutrell cemetery, Independence, Jackson Co., MO.

8. John M. Johnson, b. 11 Feb 1796, Franklin Co., VA; m. 14 Sep 1820, Patrick Co., VA, to Sarah B. Thomas [b. 5 Mary 1796, Patrick Co., VA, daughter of Richard Thomas and Elizabeth Ferrell]; he d.c. 1881, Independence, Jackson Co., MO; buried Luttrell cemetery.

9. Fleming Johnson, b.c. 1799, Patrick Co., VA; m. 30 Jan 1825, Patrick Co., VA to Mary "Polly" Thompson; d. by 15 Aug 1834, when his father Micah Sr wrote his will.

Micah Johnson was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Lisbon,
Howard County, Missouri

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