Kaufman County road leading to Baker Cemetery gets repairs; heavy rains left it nearly impassable




Baker Cemetery became almost inaccessible in recent months following heavy spring rains, but repairs that began July 13, 2015, to County Road 4042 will once again allow visitors to the 167-year-old cemetery.

Kaufman County Precinct 4 work crews replaced the old road that developed a multitude of deep, dangerous potholes. The potholes allowed a top speed of about 5 miles per hour prior to the repairs.

Baker Cemetery, which is in the Tolosa community off of Highway 274, is named after the John Baker family that migrated from Illinois to Texas in 1835. The cemetery began as a family burial site when the infant William Baker died in 1848.

There are now 852 people buried at Baker Cemetery, including many pioneer families and their descendants.

Some of the graves are those of veterans of the Republic of Texas Army, the Civil War, World War II and the Korean War.

 




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GOOD. stained; 55 degrees; 3.70 feet below pool. 55-57 degrees; 3.71 feet below pool. The hybrid and white bass winter deadsticking bite has started! Use 1/2 ounce to 1.5 ounce jigs with 4-5 inch plastic flukes and drift long lengths of the lake in the deepest water 35-50 feet. Drift at speeds of .2-.6 mph using your drift mode on your trolling motor or using drift socks. If the winds are not too bad you can just drift with the wind. Thumping on the bottom of your boat will attract fish and group them up underneath as you drift. Utilizing a splasher also works well with thumping. Fish stacked up in schools in 22 feet of water as the day warms up. Look for schooling fish on cloudier and colder days. Use spinnerbaits or drop a slab down to the bottom and work it fast up and down and the fish will hit it immediately. Also throwing out a slab and reeling it back with a slow retrieve is also working well. Cast rattle traps, Spoons, Umbrella Rigs, slabs or sassy shads to get the hybrids to bite. The crappie bite has been getting better. Target crappie with small jigs and minnows in 7-15 feet under bridge pylons, hidden brush piles throughout the lake or under docks. Crappie fisherman have been moving spot to spot finding limits. Lots of crappies in the 7-9 inch range. Limits of crappie will happen but you may catch a lot of small ones getting to your limit. Report by Brent Herbeck, Herbeck’s Lonestar Fishing Guide Service. The shallow bite continues to be good for catfish along wind blown banks and points near the mouths of major creeks where the actual creek runs into the lake. Due to the low water you can only get a few hundred yards away. Fish in 2-6 feet with fresh shad anchored on bottom. The deep bite is also good dragging bigger cut shad or rough fish in 15-30 feet drifting main lake flats. Report by Jason Barber, Kings Creek Adventures.

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