"More of the Unfinished Story of North Howard County" says that, when Daniel and Robert Harrison Baber returned from the Civil War, they went north with their widowed mother and the younger children and settled in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains at Saline Mills, between the Cossatot and Saline Rivers.
Robert and Martha Baber left Umpire in 1924 with their daughter Mamie and Elder Plunkett, moving to Big Spring, Texas,where their son Joe was farming. When Martha's health failed, she and Robert moved to Van Buren, Arkansas and lived with daughter Carrie Hunter.
"More of the Unfinished Story of North Howard County" says Margaret Elizabeth Faulkner moved to Howard County with her parents, James M. and Mary Shields Faulkner. It says the Faulkners built a log cabin near Umpire and farmed.
After their marriage, William and Zella Baber homesteaded 160 acres near Umpire, Arkansas and built a two-room house. They raised hogs and cattle, using as the earmark for their livestock the "swallow-fork in each ear" that his grandfather, William Robert Baber, had registered 3 January 1860.
Neighbors who had moved to Bokchito, Oklahoma sent glowing reports home, and William and Zelda decided to move as well. In November 1924, they had a sale of furnishings and equipment and made the move. Some of the heavier furniture was sent to Oklahoma by truck, but the family made the 160-mile trip in two covered wagons with two extra horses the children took turns riding. Cecil and Verna Baber had married and established their homes near Athens, Arkansas. Flora was teaching school at Bethel, and she lived with Verna until the end of the school year, at which time she joined the family in Oklahoma.
Doyce Baker attended school at Bokchito and Bennington, Oklahoma and was in the Civilian Conservation Corps before enlisting in the Army 24 February 1942. He served in the Philippine camaign and won the Bronze Star for heroism. He crossed the equator 11 July 1944 en route to the Philippines. This was the same day his brother Lealon was killed in action in France.
After the war, Lealon worked in California and Dallas, Texas before moving to Bokchito to live with his sister Odessa. He was buried with military honors.
Lealon Baber graduated from high school at Bennington, Oklahoma in 1936, after which he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps. He enlisted in the Army 29 July 1940. After boot training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, he was assigned to Company A, 38th Infantry. In August 1941, he and his brother-in-law Theral Rich were sent to Fort Sam Houston, Texas and were sent overseas 8 October 1943. They landed in France on D-Day with the Second Division, which spearheaded the invasion of Europe. Lealon was killed while trying to deliver a message to superior officers. He was buried in the United States Military Cemetery at St. Laurent. After the war, his body was returned and buried with full military honors at Highland Cemetery at Durant, Oklahoma.