Location: Highway 128, West of Clifton, near the Hardin County line.

Baker, Solomon H., December 1811 – 26 June 1867

Solomon H. Baker came to Tennessee – Kentucky – evidently along. He and his stepmother were not compatible, so, at the age of 21, his father “set him free”. He had carried mail barefoot to earn the money to make the trip. He wandered into Hardin County where he married Isabell Allison. She was a member of a very proud family, and they thought of Solomon as a vagabound who was beneath them socially. The story goes that he set out to prove to the Allisons that he was worthy of his bride.

After working at his father-in-law’s tan yard, he saved enough money to buy a small farm in Wayne County near the cemetery site. He built a five room log dwelling from virgin logs. Homemade shutters covered the short windows; hardwood ceilings with beams and a double fireplace in the center of the house added to the crudeness of the old structure which is still standing. (It is occupied by Jim Baker, grandson of Solomon.) Few improvements have been made. Glass windows have replaced the darkening shutters.

During his lifetime, Solomon operated a tanyard, a brick kiln, and an iron ore smeltering mill. (the underground fire, which made national news, on Perry Davis’ farm, was at the site of the smeltering mill, and it was thought that gases from stored charcoal made from hickory logs set off the fire after some hundred years.)

When Solomon died at the age of 55, in 1867, he had managed to buy all the bottom land from the Nancy Landing – four miles from Clifton – to the Clifton Landing. He had seven children, and he had divided the land in seven farms before his death.

Baker, Isabell Allison, wife of S. H. Baker, 1815-1900.
Thomas, Rosanna Baker, daughter of S. H. Baker, 16 May 1850 – 20 July 1875.
Allison, Jennett M., dau. of Theophilis and Mary Allison (niece of Isabell A. Baker) 7 June 1857 – 27 Dec 1908.
Baker, W. J., son of S. H. Baker, 22 Aug 1847 – 3 July 1908.
Baker, Nancy Clarisy (Nannie) Pitts, wife of W. J. Baker, 9 May 1852 – 19 Feb 1940.
Baker, T. A. (Bose), son of S. H. Baker, 14 July 1852 – 21 April 1929.
Evans, Irma Baker, dau. of T. A. Baker, wife of :Lam” Evans, 1881 – 1925.
Evans, Katherine, infant dau. of Irma Baker and Lam Evans, 1911-1924.
Baker, Florence Conaway, wife of Jim Baker, 8 Feb 1891 – 12 May 1964.
Baker, Ammos Boroughs, first wife of Jim Baker, 21 Nov 1891 – 8 Oct 1928.
Baker, Carrie Edna, wife of T. J. Baker, 1920 – 1954.
Baker, Joe L., son of Bose Baker, 1884 – 1957.
Baker, Rosa Howard, wife of Joe Baker, 1885 – 1958.
Baker, Wesley S., son of T. A. and Catherine Baker, 12 Oct 1887 – 26 Feb 1914.
Baker, Jack S., son of W. J. (Buck) Baker, 22 Aug 1878 – 22 March 1952.
Baker, Julia King, wife of Jack S. Baker, 19 Oct 1888 – 18 Oct 1960.
Baker, Dewitt S., son of Buck Baker, 14 Aug 1891 – 6 Sep 1969.
Baker, Bess H., 26 Jan 1891 – 28 Aug 1961.
Dowdy, Emma Baker, dau. of Buck Baker, first wife of N. T. Dowdy, 21 Sep 1873 – 31 Oct 1906.
Dowdy, Rosie L., wife of N. T. Dowdy, 21 Oct 1877 – 25 Apr 1927.
Dowdy, Mary and Paul (twins), 8 Oct 1905 – 27 Apr 1906, Paul died 28 May 1906.
Dowdy, Nathan Turnbow, husband of Rosie L. and Emma Baker Dowdy, 30 Oct 1871 – 23 Nov 1956.
Dowdy, N. T., son of N. T> and Dosie Dowdy, 15 May 1916 – 2 Oct 1922.
Davis, Rosa Conaway, sister of Florence C. Baker, 10 May 1897 – 10 Nov 1961.
Bryant, Archie B., son of Gladys B. Baker, 1941 – 1970.

Also buried here, no tombestone:
Boyd, Alf, father of “Dud” Boyd and wife, sister of Solomon H. Baker.
Grimes, George, husband of Minnie Berry Grimes.
Grimes, Minnie Berry, dau. of S. H. Baker.