On the Absence of a Will or Probate File
Arkansas Territory had a functioning probate court system from its organization in 1819 onward, with county-level records surviving from that date. No will or probate proceeding for Elisha Baker has been found in any county searched. This is consistent with a man who, after 1816, held no land in his own name and appears to have distributed his remaining property — such as Violet — directly to his children by deed during his lifetime, leaving no estate for a court to administer.
A Note on Later Arkansas Census Entries
An "Elisha Baker," age 70–79, appears in the 1830 Arkansas census in Pope County — a plausible age match by birth year, but a location on a separate migration path (via Lawrence County's own lineage north of the Arkansas River) from the rest of this family's documented Hempstead/Lawrence/Sevier orbit. Given the 1826 Missouri patent language already treating Elisha Baker as deceased, this 1830 entry is more likely a different, unrelated man of the same name and generation than the subject of this record. Elisha Baker's own son, Elisha Calvin Baker Jr. (b. 1799, Greene County, Tennessee), remained active in Hempstead, then Sevier, then Polk County, Arkansas through at least 1850, and is not to be confused with his father.