HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...
ELMER SIDNEY BAKER 1910-1980
How is Elmer related? (Good question.)
Elmer was married to Agnes Earle Carter.
Agnes Earle's parents were John Martin Carter and Amy Lorene Tamsett Carter.
John Martin Carter's parents were Ned Jonas Carter and Nancy Jane Evans Carter.
From Ned Jonas and Jane Carter sprang the whole clan of Carters who are related to our family. They had 16 children between the two of them. Ned Jonas had six children with his first wife Melinda Clingan, two of whom (twins) died at birth, and one who reportedly "fell in love with a man that the family did not approve of and they eloped and were never heard of again." Jane Evans came into the marriage with two children, Joe and Elizabeth ('Lizzie'). After she married Ned they together had eight children, one of whom was John Martin Carter and one who was my great-great-grandmother Adaline. Adaline married John Henry Arnold and thus the Carter/Arnold branch of the family tree was formed. (And Cleburne County, Arkansas would never be the same again!)
I *think* (though I'm not real sure) that makes Elmer Sidney Baker my first cousin twice removed -- by marriage. Or some such as that. His wife's father and my great-great-grandmother were brother and sister, anyway. I think. Here's another graphic.
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