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Houston County, Alabama, Heritage

The Baker Family Front Row:  Minnie, Eugenia, Mrs. Jane (Sanders) Baker, with Vera, Joe Baker, Sr., holding Willie, Nannie, Ghastie and Coley Second Row:  Dan, Robert, James, Maggie, and Doug. Back: Joe, Jr. "Buck" and George	Dan Baker with fine rig	1909 Great Northern automobile In front of Hotel Martin: Buck Baker, C. F. "Doug" Baker, Eugene Lauck, Byron Trammell (Postmaster, Ed Winters U. S. Deputy Marshall, and Dan Baker	Miss Crine, Ghastie Baker (Mrs. Myles Miller), another Miss Crine, Josie Shadgett (Mrs. Maddox) Willie Baker (Mrs. Willie Bailey), Vera Baker (Mrs. Fred Lane) and unidentified

Douglas Fields Bailey wrote Devil Make a Third based on the Baker family.  The central character was essentially his Uncle Buck who actually was Mayor of Dothan (Aven) at one time and was instrumental in having the Dothan Opera House built.  Douglas Fields Bailey's mother was Willie Baker Bailey.  William Fields Bailey (pen name Douglas Fields Bailey) was a student of Hudson Strode at the University of Alabama.  Strode recommended Bailey's book to E.P. Dutton publishers which had requested manuscripts from "promising Southern writers." Edwin S. Mills, Jr. wrote in Saturday Review in an article entitled "Machiavelli in Alabama" that Bailey's novel was an "invaluable description of the changes that occurred in the South as it entered the industrial age and the heavy toll suffered by the family unit as the result of that transition." (as paraphrased by Dr. Allen Belsches of Troy State University Dothan in his forward to the reprint of the book)

Descendants of Baker

1-Joe Baker Sr. b. 16 Mar 1836, d. 08-Dec-1900 h
 +Jane Sanders b. 12 Apr 1849, d. 6 May 1918
|--2-Maggie Baker 
|   +Early Late Dowling 
|  |--3-Early Ralph Dowling 
|  |   +Marjorie Jones 
|  |--3-Daniel Baker Dowling 
|  |   +Madeline Berghelm 
|  |--3-Joseph Elroy Dowling 
|  |--3-Jane Dowling 
|  |   +H. C. Harris Jr. 
|  |   +H. E. Erickson 
|  |--3-Blondell Dowling 
|  |   +Galen C. Elson 
|  |--3-Gladys Dowling 
|      +Hal Green 
|      +Harve Nolte 
|--2-Vera Baker 
|   +Fred Lane 
|--2-Willie Baker 
|   +Bailey 
|  |--3-William Fields (Doug) Bailey b. 1912
|  |   +Louie Herzberg b. Gadsden, AL
|  |  |--4-Michael Bailey 
|  |  |   +Catherine Vance Griffith 
|  |  |  |--5-Catherine Adale Bailey 
|  |  |  |--5-Margaret Abigail Bailey 
|  |  |--4-William Fields Bailey Jr. 
|  |--3-Hilma Bailey 
|  |   +Dr. Theron McFatter 
|  |  |--4-Judge William Douglas McFatter 
|  |  |   +Miki Thrasher
|  |  |--4-Theron McFatter 
|  |--3-W. H. "Billy" Bailey 
|--2-Dan Baker 
|--2-Joe "Buck" Baker Jr b. 21 Mar 1869, d. 26 Mar 1920, bur. Dothan City 
|    Cemetery
|--2-Minnie Baker 
|--2-Eugenia Baker b. 23 Dec 1867, d. 8 Oct 1898
|   +W.T. Buntin b. 22 Jan 1862, d. 10 Apr 1900
|  |--3-Thomas Eugen Buntin 
|      +Elenor Neely
|     |--4-T. E. Buntin 
|         +Mabel Hodges
|        |--5-Tommy Buntin III
	    5-Ellen Buntin 
		Dawson	
	    5-Julia Elizabeth
          + Zelma
	    5-Catherine
	    5-Rosemary
            5-Charles	

      3-Jesse Buntin
	 + Richard Morgan
          4-Barbara Morgan
          4-Jerry Morgan
            +Lex Edwin Dowling
             5-Lexa Dowling
             5-Larry Dowling
      3-Joe Buntin
        +
	4-Austin Baley Buntin
        4-Joe Buntin  
	4-William	
|--2-Nannie Baker 
|--2-Ghastie Baker 
|   +Myles Miller 
|  |--3-Jane Miller 
|      +Ben Sims 
	4-Clair
	4-Ben
	4-Jane
|--2-George Baker 
|--2-Colie Baker b. 7 May 1886, d. 24 Sep 1937