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NOTE: SOME INFORMATION IS NOT
DOCUMENTED THIS IS NOT MY
BAKER FAMILY James R. Baker,
Jr. Has a webpage covering this
family extensively at: Note: This family has matched by DNA Tests to the Andrew Baker
family of Grant county, Kentucky.The connection has not yet been found, but
would have to be prior to the arrival of the families in North
Kentucky. Generation
No. 1 1. REASON (SWAMP
FOX)1 BAKER He married NELLIE ROBERTS. Notes for
REASON (SWAMP
FOX) BAKER: According to Mr. William Fitzgerald of Boone Co, KY. in 1986, the
following was copied from an old family bible in Boone Co., and was assumed
written by George W. Baker. ----------- George W. Baker was born in Boone Co., Ky. on Mudlick Fork of Big
Bone Creek Nov. 25, 1832. My father Stewart Baker was born in Montgomery Co., Ky. July
1810. His father Edwin Baker was born in North Carolina somewhere near
"Rollo" (Raleigh?). His father's name was Reason Baker and his mother's name was Nelly
Baker nee Roberts. Reason Baker and family came to Kentucky with Daniel Boone on Boone's
second trip. -----------
Known children
of REASON BAKER and
NELLIE ROBERTS
are: 2.
i.
EDWIN2
BAKER,
b. November 20, 1785, Near Raleigh, North Carolina; d. October 09, 1879, Boone
co., Kentucky (buried Baker
Cemetery).
ii.
MARGARET
(PEGGY)
BAKER,
m. FRANCIS
ROBERTS,
JR.,
June 08, 1815, Bath County, Kentucky.
Consent for marriage by bride's father, Reason Baker. Bond by Edwin
Baker. Generation
No. 2 2. EDWIN2 BAKER
(REASON
(SWAMP
FOX)1) was born
November 20, 1785 near Raleigh, North Carolina, and died October 09, 1879 in
Boone co., Kentucky (buried Baker
Cemetery). He married
SARAH (SALLY) ROBERTS. She was born September 18, 1789 in
Kentucky, and died March 13, 1860 in Boone co., Kentucky (buried Baker
Cemetery). Notes for
EDWIN BAKER: Edwin moved from Montgomery Co., KY to Boone Co., in
1815. According to the 1830 Boone co. census he had 7 sons and 3 daughters.
All are accounted for. On the 1840 census he had 4 sons and 2 daughters at
home.
Children of
EDWIN BAKER and
SARAH ROBERTS
are:
i.
STEWART3
BAKER,
b. July 18, 1810, Montgomery Co., Kentucky; d. September 26, 1886, Boone co.,
Kentucky (buried Baker Cemetery); m. ELIZABETH
MOORE,
December 08, 1831, Boone co., Kentucky; b. November 15, 1818, Rockbridge Co.,
Virginia; d. July 23, 1882, Boone co., Kentucky (buried Baker
Cemetery).
ii.
GEORGE
WILLIAM
BAKER,
b. July 12, 1812, Boone co., Kentucky; d. Shelbyville, Missouri (Masonic
Cemetery); m. REBECCA
J.
MOORE,
January 19, 1835, Boone co., Kentucky; d. Shelbyville,
Missouri. George moved to Shelbyville, Shelby County, Missouri about
1865.
iii.
MARY
ELLEN
BAKER,
m. JAMES
M.
HUME,
January 14, 1849, Boone co., Kentucky.
iv.
LUCINDA
(LUCY)
BAKER,
m. JAMES
BRANN.
v.
WILLIAM
BAKER,
b. Abt. 1829, Kentucky. William was single and living with Reason and Dorinda in
1850.
vi.
CATHERINE
(KATE)
BAKER,
b. July 25, 1819; d. October 23, 1912; m. BENJAMIN
B.
ALPHIN,
September 01, 1839, Boone co., Kentucky; b. May 16, 1814; d. May 10,
1900.
vii.
AQUILLA
BAKER,
b. Abt. 1826, Boone co., Kentucky; m. MARTHA
HOWARD,
March 09, 1848, Boone co., Kentucky; b. Abt.
1825.
viii.
REASON
BAKER,
b. January 26, 1822, Switzerland County, Indiana; m. DORINDA
DUDGEON,
October 09, 1843, Boone co., Kentucky. -------------------- Notes
for REASON
BAKER: History Of Monroe And Shelby Counties, Missouri
1884 Page 1114, Jackson Township REASON
BAKER
(Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Oak
Dale) Mr.
Baker is a native of Indiana, born in Switzerland
County on the 26th day of January, 1822. His parents were Edwin
and Sarah Baker, from South Carolina. Reason Baker was reared
in Kentucky, and in 1843 was married to Miss Dorinda, a
daughter of William and Nancy Dudgeon, of Jessamine county, Ky., and
of the same original family of which William A. Dudgeon, of
Fayette, in Howard county, Mo., druggist and county treasurer, descends.
Mr. Baker came to Missouri in 1853 and settled in Shelby
County, where he bought 240 acres of land. Soon afterwards he added
80 acres, making a fine stock farm of 320 acres, on which he
has been engaged in raising grain and stock, the latter
including horses, mules, cattle, etc.
During the late war he served about four months in the militia. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have
eight children: James R., Amanda E., William M., Martha J., George
E., Cornelius S., Reason C. and Richard M. Three others died
in infancy.
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ix.
EDWIN
BAKER,
b. Abt. 1819, Ohio; m. JAMIMA
ROUSE,
October 29, 1846; b. Abt. 1822, Kentucky.
x.
JESSE
BAKER,
b. Abt. 1803, Kentucky; m. JANE;
b. Abt. 1805, Kentucky.
xi.
NELLIE
BAKER,
b. Aft. 1830.
xii.
NICHOLAS
BAKER,
m. LAVINA
BURRIS,
March 02, 1834, Boone co., Kentucky.
xiii.
JAMES
BAKER,
m. ELIZABETH
JENKINS,
January 25, 1840, Boone co., Kentucky. James R. Baker
Jr.Linda Hansen
Descendants
of Reason (Swamp Fox) Baker