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Samuel Baker

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Samuel Baker

Birth
Florida, USA
Death
12 Aug 1908 (aged 58)
Florida, USA
Burial
New Port Richey, Pasco County, Florida, USA GPS-Latitude: 28.2339001, Longitude: -82.6968994
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SAMUEL BAKER (1849-1898) was born in Florida on Dec. 6, 1849.

He married Elizabeth Pinder (b. Bahamas, Jan. 30, 1849; d., Aug. 30, 1910) in Key West on April 9, 1866.

They moved to Bailey's Bluff in 1880 and established a grocery store there.

In 1882 he built a home at what is now Elfers on a 40-acre tract of land he had purchased for one dollar per acre. A deed dated April 5, 1888, transferred an acre of property in S20 T26 R16 from Samuel and Elizabeth Baker to the school board.

Samuel and Elizabeth had several children:

Charles - married Sara Jane Stephens

Samuel Benjamin - married Rosalee Victoria Gaines

James Otis - married Nicey Ella Mobley

John Thomas - married Clara M. Baillie

George Henry - married Nellie Blanche Hay

Mary Jane - married William Byrd Hay

Samuel Baker died on Aug. 12, 1898. He and his wife are buried at East Elfers Cemetery.

Their 1882 house is the oldest surviving home of its type in western Pasco county and was placed on the library grounds on Moog Road, in Holiday/New Port Richey and is now a museum.

The Baker House

It seems there is no known photo of Samuel Baker.

(Info from fivay.org)
SAMUEL BAKER (1849-1898) was born in Florida on Dec. 6, 1849.

He married Elizabeth Pinder (b. Bahamas, Jan. 30, 1849; d., Aug. 30, 1910) in Key West on April 9, 1866.

They moved to Bailey's Bluff in 1880 and established a grocery store there.

In 1882 he built a home at what is now Elfers on a 40-acre tract of land he had purchased for one dollar per acre. A deed dated April 5, 1888, transferred an acre of property in S20 T26 R16 from Samuel and Elizabeth Baker to the school board.

Samuel and Elizabeth had several children:

Charles - married Sara Jane Stephens

Samuel Benjamin - married Rosalee Victoria Gaines

James Otis - married Nicey Ella Mobley

John Thomas - married Clara M. Baillie

George Henry - married Nellie Blanche Hay

Mary Jane - married William Byrd Hay

Samuel Baker died on Aug. 12, 1898. He and his wife are buried at East Elfers Cemetery.

Their 1882 house is the oldest surviving home of its type in western Pasco county and was placed on the library grounds on Moog Road, in Holiday/New Port Richey and is now a museum.

The Baker House

It seems there is no known photo of Samuel Baker.

(Info from fivay.org)


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