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K-P Section - Peck Section 2
ELLENORA LLOYD BAKER PECK was born in Salisbury, North Carolina, on March 10, 1881. She was the 13 "' and youngest child of GEORGE LLOYD BAKER (b. 02-21-1790; d. 09-1836) and ELIZABETH JOSEPHINE WARNE BAKER (b. 07-12-1794; d. 12-25-1851),both born in England. where they were married on May 11, 1811. The Bakers left England with their four oldest children in the spring of 1820. They sailed from Plymouth, England, to City Point, Virginia, on the "Henry Clay." George Baker was described by his oldest daughter thusly, "Our father had a fine mind and good attainments in knowledge and literature ... He was devoted to his family and friends, was high minded and honorable, and he would never stoop to a little or mean action. He had a perception of the beautiful and the grand, in nature and in art, and in literature, and he was a most beautiful and impressive reader...You cannot have forgotten his fondness for chemistry, and his experiments to illustrate its truths ... He taught school [in America] and had been an assayer of gold while he lived in England." Ellenora seems to have inherited some of her father's love of literature; family memorabilia includes forty poems and two essays which she wrote as a young woman. Ellenora `s granddaughter, Nora (Nona) Hanby, related a story about Ellenora from Civil War days. A young nephew had lived with the Pecks at Springfield before the war. He had a special talent for finding four-leaf clovers. Ellenora could rarely find them, and she was always pleased when he found one and gave it to her. He was shot during a battle and moved to a grassy place where almost immediately he noticed a four-leaf clover. He picked it, and said, "Take this to Aunt Ellen." Moments later he died. After the war, a letter came telling the story and containing the four-leaf clover. Ellenora brought the crumbled leaf to Texas and Aunt Nona remembered seeing it and hearing the story from her grandmother.
The children of Joseph and Ellen Peck were: ELIZABETH JOSEPHINE PECK (b. July 15, 1855; d. December 27, 1931); JOSEPH VAWTER PECK (b. December 25, 1856; d. November 13, 1929); EMMA CANNON PECK (b. December 16,1858; d. September 24,1939)- WALTER BEVERLY PECK (b. December 1, 1860; d. November 2,1935); HENRY AUGUSTUS PECK (b. November 2,1864; d. December 2, 1938); and ROBERT EDWARD LEE PECK (b. July 28, 1864; d. October 24, 1952). All are buried in the Peck section of the cemetery, except R. E. L. Peck.
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