LUCINDA MARIAH "LULA" ADKINS BAKER, daughter and eldest of eight children born to Andrew Jackson Adkins and Olevia Jane Ward, was born November 3, 1871, in Clark County, Indiana. She moved with her family to Texas and Indian Territory, leaving Indiana in the summer of 1876.

Lula married Louis J. Baker on May 3, 1888, at Lark, Marshall County, Oklahoma (then Indian Territory). Children of Lucinda Mariah "Lula" Adkins and Louis J. Baker: (1) Andrew Jackson Baker, born in 1889 and died in infancy; (2) Francis Earl Baker, 1892-1958 (Find-A-Grave Memorial 39742841; (3) Bertha Pearl Baker Maness Spone, 1895-1968 (Find-A-Grave Memorial 9552094); (4) Cora Jane Baker Vick Buck, 1897-1986 (Find-A-Grave Memorial 11047899).

Lula died as the result of a rabid cat bite on March 5, 1900, at Amos (now Enos), Marshall County, Oklahoma. She was buried in the Old Willis Cemetery and her grave moved to its present location when Lake Texoma was built and the old cemetery went underneath the lake.


The following was found on very old, yellowed note paper, in the keepsakes of Olevia Jane Ward Adkins, left with her daughter Nora, about 1942:

In Memory of Lula Baker, Who Died March 5, 1900 (By Her Mother).

"In Jesus, she has gone to sleep
And we are left to mourn and weep,
Until our God doth bid us come
To live with her around His throne.

She has gone to rest in Jesus' arms,
And now she's free from toil and harms.
God help me live that I may be
With her throughout eternity.

While death told of the angel nearby,
Awaiting to carry her spirit on high,
She sang of the promised land so fair
And said to me, 'Mama, you'll be there.'

With a broken heart, in a trembling tone,
I answered my dear one, 'I'll be there soon.'
Such sorrow no one but a mother can tell
When death compels us to bid them farewell.

Her body is lying beneath the sod;
Her spirit rests in the bosom of God
Awaiting the summons that calls from the grave
To unite soul and body of those that are saved.

In God's own garden, she doth dwell
For Jesus 'doeth all things well.'
I hope one day with her to rest
And rise triumphant with the blest.

Sleep on, dear child, the time will come
When I must leave this earthly home.
And then with Jesus Christ our Lord,
We'll sing his praise with one accord."