Nannie Pearl Patton was born on March 6, 1860 in Louisville, Kentucky, to George R. Patton (b.Dec 1828 in Virginia) and Elizabeth Fowler (b.May 1834 in Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania). She married James E. Baker (1848-1906), one of eight children borne of the union of Samuel Hodgdon Baker (1817-1901) and Mary Ann Howell (1822-1906). The Baker family owned a Carriage and Coach making company in Louisville, Kentucky that had been quite successful for over 25 years, when James and Nannie married in Jefferson Co., Kentucky on the 19th of April, 1876. The happy couple set up housekeeping in a home they rented and James worked as a Clerk in his father's business. They were blessed with two children: George G., (named after Nannie's father) was b.Jan 1879 and Ruth was b.c1882. In 1860, the carriage and coach company operated and owned by Samuel Baker and his sons was valued at $3,000 and in 1870, the family's business was valued at $4,000. At the beginning of the 20th Century, James was a Salesman and Nannie's parents were living in the home with them. Her father, now 72, was a Bookkeeper. Not all was joyous during that time, however, as James' older brother, William Thomas Baker, died in Oregon from TB in April 1900, just weeks after his daughter's fifth birthday. Nannie's sister-in-law, Magdalena ("Lena"), wife of Herbert, had died in childbirth in 1898, as had their infant daughter. Now, in 1901, Samuel Baker died at the age of 84, and Nannie's own father, George R. Patton (her son's namesake), also passed from this life that same year, at the age of 73. But Nannie's daughter, Ruth, married Jacob Knapp, who worked as a Foreman at a Carriage Works in the Chicago area. In 1906, the same year that Ruth and Jacob had their first daughter (named Louane), Nannie's beloved husband died at the age of 58 years. A devastated Nannie and her children laid James Baker, her husband of 30 years and the father of George and Ruth, to Rest at Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky, where many generations of the Baker family laid in Eternal Rest. Nannie moved to the Chicago area to live with Ruth, Jacob and their 2 young daughters. Nannie's son, George, had fought in the Spanish-American War with Company F of the Kentucky Infantry, and upon his return, he obtained a job in Advertising; he also married twice. His first marriage was to Pearl Clark on Dec 31, 1908. Four years later, he married Barbara F. End on Sep 24, 1912 in Clark, Indiana. I was not able to find any children were born from either marriage. George G. Baker died Feb 3rd, 1923 and was laid to rest at Mount Greenwood Cemetery in Chicago. Nannie Baker passed from this life on April 5th, 1926 and was also laid to rest at Mount Greenwood Cemetery in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois. Her next of kin is listed as Ruth Hackett, her daughter, who remarried in about 1923, to Michael J. Hackett, a Chicago Police officer. Michael died in Florida in 1962; he was buried with his parents and brother at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois. Upon searching further, I discovered that Ruth Baker Hackett had died in Dade Co., Florida in 1950. I do not know where she is interred. May they all Rest in Peace together in Paradise.