Absolom Baker I

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Absolom Baker I

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30 Dec 1888 (aged 80)
Colquitt County, Georgia, USA
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Norman Park, Colquitt County, Georgia, USA
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Absolom Baker, an early and influential settler of present Colquitt Count was born on Feb. 3, 1808. He was the son of Jeremiah Meyer Baker and Lydia Mariah Sessoms Baker.

Sometime about 1825, Jeremiah Baker and family moved to Irwin County and settled in the southern portion of what is now Colquitt County. It was there he met and married Miss Zilpha Tillman, born 1810, a daughter of Jeremiah Tillman. She died in 1849 on the birth of her third child. He then married Miss Martha Ann Mims born, Oct. 16, 1831, daughter of Joseph W. and Effie Mims, natives of North Carolina.

Absolom Baker was a 1st Lieutenant in the militia in the 1020th district, Lowndes County, 1845-51. He as Justice of the Peace in the same district, 1850-53. His home was for many years in Lowndes, but in 1854 when Colquitt County was formed the Baker plantation was put in the new county. He was a member of the last Inferior Court of Colquitt County, servicing as one of its Justices 1865-68. He was Justice of Peace of the 1184th district, Colquitt County, 1873-75.




Absolom Baker, an early and influential settler of present Colquitt Count was born on Feb. 3, 1808. He was the son of Jeremiah Meyer Baker and Lydia Mariah Sessoms Baker.

Sometime about 1825, Jeremiah Baker and family moved to Irwin County and settled in the southern portion of what is now Colquitt County. It was there he met and married Miss Zilpha Tillman, born 1810, a daughter of Jeremiah Tillman. She died in 1849 on the birth of her third child. He then married Miss Martha Ann Mims born, Oct. 16, 1831, daughter of Joseph W. and Effie Mims, natives of North Carolina.

Absolom Baker was a 1st Lieutenant in the militia in the 1020th district, Lowndes County, 1845-51. He as Justice of the Peace in the same district, 1850-53. His home was for many years in Lowndes, but in 1854 when Colquitt County was formed the Baker plantation was put in the new county. He was a member of the last Inferior Court of Colquitt County, servicing as one of its Justices 1865-68. He was Justice of Peace of the 1184th district, Colquitt County, 1873-75.




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