REASON BAKER
BAKER FAMILY HISTORY
AND
GENEALOGY
OF ROWAN AND WILKES COUNTIES, NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA
AND
MADISON COUNTY, KENTUCKY
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I have
been researching and documenting my Baker family history for the past 12
years. This line follows the ancestors of my grandfather Steward Baker. I
have tried to document every direct ancestor of his but I have not
documented information on “cousins” etc., for this information I have
relied on the research of distant cousins. This site is dedicated to Baker
family researchers eveywhere and it's intent is to help the researcher get
started on his own line. I have done my best with the time I had to
document as much of the information as I could but the researcher should
do his or her own documentation.
My granddaddy said (his great
grandfather) Reason was from Virginia and moved from there to Madison
county Kentucky. I have yet to find records of him in Virginia but have
found tax and marriage records in North Carolina. His son Edwin [#2] stated on
census reports that he (Edwin) was born in “Rollo” North Carolina. This “Rollo” has not been found
but Raleigh has all but been ruled out as the place Edwin was
referring to. I believe the
name Rollo was written by the enumerator as he heard probably spoken
with a southern drawl and perhaps even a remnant of a German accent that
in turn twisted the spelling to be that of a non existing town or
area. Many reseachers thought that
he meant Raleigh, N.C. but Reason was married in Rowan County North Carolina and this is
the most likely area for Edwin’s birth.
NOTE: Cousin Clark Baker took a
DNA test to set a standard for other descendants of Reason; the test will
help to show to whom Reason was related. At the time of this writing there
has been three matches but unfortunately we have not been able to identify
our common ancestors. See about DNA testing on my HOME
page.
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