Individual Details

Alfred and Rebecca had eight children. They were divorced and he married Mary Ann (Johnson) Motes by whom he had two additional sons. I have seen that Mary later divorced Alfred but this is apparently untrue as she drew a Confederate Widow's Pension on his service and stated she was married to Alfred at the time of his death.

1850 Census. Chestnut, Autauga, AL, Hh 833
Alfred Baker, 23, Rebecca 20.
Abraham, age 1.
Mary A. Headly, age 18.

1850 - Alabama State Census, Autauga Co.
Alfred Baker: 1 wm under 21 (Abraham), 1 wm over 21 (Alfred), 1 wm between 18 and 45 (Alfred again). 1 wf under 21 (Rebecca).

1855 - Alabama State Census, Autauga Co.
Alfred Baker: 2 wm over 21 (Alfred and ??), 1wf under 21 (Mary), 1 wf over 21 (Rebecca), 4 total whites

1860 Census. Chestnut Creek, Autauga, AL, Hh 253
Alford Baker, 34. Rebecca, 28
Mary 9. William 5. Alford, age 2

1860 Slave Schedule, Chestnut Creek, Autauga, AL
Alfred Baker: female age 30, two males, 10 and 9. 1 slave house.

Muster Roll of Capt. Wm. H. Worthington, Autauga Co, AL - for ninety days. Enlisted Autaugaville.
4th Regt, Alabama Militia, Companies B, C, D, G, I
Includes:
Alfred Baker, 2nd Lt. age 34
John Baker, 1st Corpl, age 35
2nd Lieutenant Alfred Baker - Member of the Autauga Rangers Home Guard... Enlisted at age 34 on March 25, 1862 in Autauga County... Muster Roll, Mar 25, 1862...
Muster Roll card 18 Mar - 16 Jun 1862. Alfred Baker, 4th AL Militia, 3rd Lt, Co. D, Byrd's Regt, Ninety Day Volunteers. Enlisted under W. H. Worthington in Prattville, 18 Mar 1862. Reported as Absent. He was furloughed May 17 for 15 days and his time expired. A Voucher shows that on 3 Sep 1862, Alfred Baker, 2nd Lt, was paid $237.33, for two months, 29 days.
Exemption from Military Service, 1861-65, Justice of peace, Autauga County... Governor's Correspondence 1863-64.
During Reconstruction, a new county was formed from Autauga, Bibb, Perry & Shelby counties... This new county was named Baker County in honor of prominent citizen Alfred Baker, Justice of the Peace, member of the State Legislature, & Postmaster at Grantville... Baker is credited with founding the town of Clanton, donating as much as half of the original building lots... As Baker's political and business affiliations grew, the townspeople began to view him as too cooperative with the Northern Carpet Baggers... They led a successful campaign to rename the county, changing it to Chilton County in honor of William Parrish Chilton, the Alabama Delegate to the Confederate Congress.
Note: In other places, Alfred Baker's fall from popularity is suggested as his "indiscretions". This may have had more to do with his affair with Mary Ann Moats than his political leanings.

4 Apr 1864. Petition to Governor of Alabama, Thos. H. Watts, stating that Alfred Baker is such a good Justice of the Peace and his services are necessary for the administration of laws and he should not be liable to Conscription. The following signed: Robert (+) Wilson, J. M. Wyatt, John R. Price, James M. Parrish, Moses Armstrong, James R. Mims, Bartley Oden, Joel Dennis, James Wilson, J. W. N., Wilson, Henry A?bonn, Henry A. Maddix, Wm Driver, Dennis Askins, I.M. Connell, Edward Mims, George G. Mims, Anderson Baker, Abraham Mims.
Alfred's letter:
Ranch, Ala. April the 15th 1864
To your Excelency Mr. Thomas H. Watts
Governor of the State of Ala. I drop you
these few lines with the enclosed pertition
asking your Excelency to Exempt me for conscrip-
tion as it is the request of the citizens the
the Beat in which I live - as your Excelency
will see my servises is nesessary in the Beat
in which I live. Please write to me soon
and let me know what to depend upon.
I will further state to the Excelency that most all
of the citizens of Chestnut Creek Beat have told me that
they are willing & desirous of signing a pertition to your
Excelency for my exemption but I have have not had the opper-
tunity of seeing all of them. Please anser this soon
and nothin more But I remain yours as ever
Alfred Baker, Esqr

1866 - Alabama State Census - Autauga Co
Alfred Baker: 1m under 10, 1m 10-20, 1m 40-50. 2f under 10, 1f 10-20, 1f 30-40

Baker County, Alabama, was created in December 1868, and was named for Mr. Alfred Baker, who at the time owned practically all of Clanton,
p.10.
The ground upon which Clanton is situated was first owned by Thomas Williams ...sold to Alf Baker, who conceived the idea of developing a city thereon and had the property upon which Clanton is now standing surveyed (1872). ....The town was named Clanton. The streets named in numerals. p.42
Chilton County and Her People, Wyatt,

1870. Prec 4, Baker Co AL, Hh 109
Alfred Baker, 42, Merchant
Rebecca A., 40.
William S. 13. Alfred 11. Rebecca C. 9. Letty M. D. 7. Charlotte 3. Laura, age 2.
Next door neighbor to Alfred & Rebecca Baker:
1870 Census. Beat 4, Baker, AL, Hh 110
Mary Moats, 33.
Wm, 13. Thos. 11, Amos, age 2

I very much suspect that Amos "Moats" was, in fact, a son of Alfred Baker.
State of Alabama
Baker County
I, Alfred Baker, a citizen of said
County hereby declare and make
known to all persons whom it
may concern that I have and do hereby adopt
Amos Moats a male child of the age of 3 years
son of Mary Moats as my child and the heir of
my Estate real and Personal and that his name
shall be changed and that he hereafter be known by
the name of Amos Baker
Given under my hand this 7th day of May, 1871
Alfred Baker
Witness: Wm. H. Jones, Steven Baker

The State vs Alfred Baker and Polly Moats
The State of Alabama, Chilton County, Circuit Court Fall Term 1876
The Grand Jury of said County charge
that before the finding of this indictment Alfred Baker
and Polly Moats a woman did live together in a
state of adultery or fornication against the peace and
dignity of the State of Alabama
F. S. Ferguson
Special Solicitor, Chilton Co
Which said indictment has the following indorsements (sic)
therein to wit:
The State vs. Alfred Baker and Polly Moats, Adultery. No Prosecutor. A True Bill, A. Palmer, foreman
State Witnesses:
Emma Moats. J. E. Lowe and Henry Baker
At some point during this case, the Divorce decree between Rebecca A. Baker, Complainant and Alfred Baker, Respondent, was introduced. Perhaps 1876 was also when the divorce was granted. Rebecca received custody of the minor children, two pieces of property which upon her death were to go to the four daughters - Rebecca, Letty, Charlotte & Laura, household furnishings, livestock, crops, and both were permitted to again contract marriage.
26 Apr 1877 Case was dismissed because of the marriage of the parties - they were ordered to pay costs.

12 Apr 1877. Married Mary Ann (Johnson) Motes in Clanton.

1880 Census. Clanton, Chilton, AL, Hh 221
Alfred Baker, 52. M. A., age 42, wife
A. B., 12, son. E. C., age 2, son.
Hh 445
Rebecca Baker, 48, Divorced. Lettie, 16. Charlotte 15. Laura, 11.

31 Mar 1887 "The Chilton View"
Mr. Alfred Baker Sr. was stabbed in the back on Saturday by Dr. Sam Johnson. Mr. Baker was sitting on a bench in front of the farmer's store engaged in conversation when Dr. Johnson, who was intoxicated, came upon him unawares and stabbed him in the left shoulder with a new 4-inch-blade pocket knife ...bail in the sum of $500 ...next term of the circuit court. Mr. Baker's wound, though not dangerous, was quite serious, though he is now improving, and we hope soon to see him out again.

Baker, Alfred, Sr. March 16, 1828 February 09, 1896
Genealogical Abstracts from Chilton County Newspapers 1898 through 1945, compiled by Cecil Little, 1-15-1942, Picture of Alfred Baker, Sr. He and a surveyor, George W. Floyd laid off Streets of Clanton in 1870. He was born 3-16-1828 in Darlington District, South Carolina, and moved at age 6 weeks from Darlington to this area. His Full Brother, John Baker died in 1915 at age 92, he had two younger full Brothers, Stephen and Anderson Baker, and 3 full Sisters, Sarah ''Salley" Baker who first married a Mims, who was killed in the Civil War, then Sarah married Powell Headley, Emily Baker who first married a Headley and following his death Emily married Mr. Henry Mims and following the death of Mr. Mims she married Mr. V. J. Gragg, Sr., and Ellender or Ellen Baker who married Reuben Aldridge who died in the Civil War. Alfred Baker's Mother had been married to a Mr. Reuben Popwell first and she had two Popwell Sons, Reuben born 1811 and James born 1821, and these Popwell daughters, Mahalia who married Elijah Mims, Susan who married George Mims, Charlotte "Lotty" who married Joshua McHenry Hicks, and Mary Ann who married David Rogers.

Following ownership by the Williamses, the land about Clanton was acquired at one dollar per acre by Alfred Baker. The County was first named Baker County, for this same Alfred Baker, when the county was formed in 1868. The county was formed from parts of Autauga, Bibb, Perry, and Shelby counties. What is now Clanton was in Autauga County. The County was renamed Chilton in 1871, in honor of William Parrish Chilton, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Clanton was laid out in 1872 and named for a Confederate soldier and statesman, Brigadier General James Holt Clanton. (see notes for Margaret Headley Robinson)


Ancestry.org FamilyTree:
Alfred Baker and Amos Baker Families In Indian Territory
Mary Blanche Baker Latham often mentioned the time her family went to Oklahoma (“Indian Territory”) for the “Land Rush”. In her account, she relayed that as a very small child she had seen her first “wild Indian” in Oklahoma and how the experience had “scared her to death”.
According to her, the entire family consisting of her grandfather and grandmother(Alfred Baker Sr, and Mary Ann Johnson), her parents( Amos Baker and Emily Baker), and her brother( Ollie A Baker) had all made the trip to Oklahoma. The family returned to Alabama because “they couldn’t find any decent land”.

Mary Ann Johnson Moatts Baker's Confederate Widows Pension application verifies the story.

The following Chilton County, Alabama newspaper accounts also seem to verify her story:
From: “The Chilton View” November 17, 1892
LOCAL BREVITIES
“ Amos Baker and his family are on a visit to relatives in this vicinity. Amos says his father expects to return from Indian Territory soon and will remain here. While they like the wild west as a farming country, they found it difficult to give up old associations.”
Fr om: “The Chilton View” December 1, 1892
LOCAL BREVITIES
“ Mr. Alfred Baker who moved from this place to Indian Territory about a year ago has returned and will reside here permanently.”

Birth	16 Mar 1828	South Carolina
Marriage	Ca 1848	Rebecca Ann Mims
Divorce	1876	Rebecca Ann Mims
Marriage	12 Apr 1877	Clanton, Chilton County, Alabama - Mary Ann Johnson
Death	9 Feb 1896	Chilton County, Alabama

Spouse	Rebecca Ann Mims (1830 - 1912)
Child	Abraham Baker (1849 - 1860)
Child	Mary Ann Baker (1851 - 1939)
Child	William S. "Bud" Baker (1855 - 1892)
Child	Alfred Baker Jr. (1858 - 1946)
Child	Rebecca C. Baker (1861 - )
Child	Lettie Marge D. Baker (1864 - 1955)
Child	Charlotte Baker (1867 - )
Child	Laura Ann Baker (1868 - 1953)

Spouse	Mary Ann Johnson (1838 - 1925)
Child	Amos (Moats) Baker (1868 - 1943)
Child	Elijah Cary Baker (1878 - 1963)

Father	Stephen Baker (1790 - 1862)
Mother	Margaret Charlotte Anderson (1790 - 1859)
Sibling	John Baker (1825 - 1915)
Sibling	Sarah Baker (1830 - 1901)
Sibling	Emily Baker (1831 - 1908)
Sibling	Stephen Baker Jr. (1833 - 1899)
Sibling	Anderson Baker (1834 - 1912)
Sibling	Ellender "Ellen" Baker (1835 - 1917)