BAKER, WILLIAM, was born about 1798, in Sevier county, Tenn. He came to St. Clair county, Ill., when a young man. Phebe Neeley was born Dec. 14, 1799, near Nashville, Tenn., and was taken to St. Clair county, Ill., when she was a young woman. Wm. Baker and Phebe Neeley were married about 1818, near Belleville. They had one child born there, and the family moved to Horse creek, in what became Sangamon county, in the spring of 1819, in what is now Cotton Hill township, where seven children were born. They then moved to a mill on Sangamon river, three miles north of Rochester, where one child was born. Four of the children died under two years. Of the other five--

JAMES, born Jan., 1819, in St. Clair county, and raised on Horse creek, on the farm now owned by Samuel-Galloway. William Enyert, who went to school with him, remembers having heard him say frequently, in their boyhood days, that he would join some Indian tribe at 18 years of age. Between 1837 and '40 he went w??, and came back in 1844, to see his m??ner, who then lived in Rochester. He said he had joined the Snake tribe of Indians, and after a stay of about six months, he returned to that tribe. But little was known of him until 1849, when a party of eight persons left Springfield for the gold regions of California. William Enyert says they found him at the crossing of Green river, keeping a ferry. He recognized Mr. Enyert readily, and treated him kindly. Mr. Enyert learned from him that he was a chief in the Snake tribe; had two wives, one with him and one at Fort Bridger, and two children by each. His daily receipts were from $500 to $600 at the ferry. He is yet living among the Indians, and is occasionally heard from by his friends. Mr. Enyert says that when he saw him he was full six feet tall, wore his hair long and straight, stood erect as any Indian, wore buckskin clothes, and in his general appearance looked very much like an Indian. Mr. Enyert had been a school-mate of his in this county. E. C. Matheny saw him under similar circumstances.

ADELIA, born in Sangamon county in 1821, died at 15 years of age.

JOHN, born in Sangamon county, resides among the Indians, near Fort Bridger, Wyoming territory. Went there a few years later than his brother James.

ELIZABETH, born in Sangamon county, Cotton Hill township, is unmarried and resides in Rochester; is the only member of the family residing in Sangamon county.

ELIZA, born in Sangamon county, died at 15 years of age.

William Baker went to Texas previous to 1844, started from there to California about 1852, and died on the road. Mrs. Phebe Baker died, August, 1861, in Rochester.