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IN the Ray County History book reprint 1978 it give an interesting story of "Squire Thomas Baber:
began building the house in 1851 an dcompleted it three years later. The bricks that formed the 13 inch walls and partitions were made on the Squires farm.
The civil war was a stormy period for Squire Baber and his family. Because Squirtes five sons had enlisted in the Confederate army, the Baber farm was periodically invaded by local bushwakers-small bands of Northern Sympathizers who attacked and harassed landowners loyal to the south.]
One night when two of the Baber sons were home on leave a group of masked bushwackers pounded on the door and demanded that the squre agree to fetch the men, he said they were asleep upstairs. But instead of producing his sons, Squire Baber started shooting athe the bushwackers from an upstairs window. One wounded in the foot, and the group disappeared. The wounded man no longer able to conceal his identity had to leave town.
Several months later, bushwackers surrounded the house again determined to capture one of the Baber sons who was home on furloung. ON seeing the band approach the house, servants lowered the soldier down the backyard well, where he stayed for three days suspended on a blankey. Food was sent down in water buckets. Squire Baber insisted that his son was not at home. After watching the house for several days without seeing a trace of the soilder, the bushwakcers left. Squire Thomas Baber died in 1873.
The article does not say who he was married to or any other family data, however it has a wonderful picture of the house.
Joan
batkin3938@cs.com
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