SARAH CASTATOR

SARAH CASTATOR was born September 12, 1797 in Kentucky, probably in the area that became Pendleton County. She was a daughter of Peter and Susannah Castator, who had come to Kentucky from Pennsylvania.

About 1815, she married William Baker, probably in Pendleton County, but no record of the marriage has survived. Seven children had been born to them by 1831, when they moved to Shelby County, Indiana. Five more children were born to them in Shelby County.

There is a record of William buying two parcels of land in Shelby Co., Indiana in 1831, when they moved there.  They are listed on the census in 1840 and 1850 in Hendricks Township. Sons, George and David are nearby, as are daughters, Susan, Rosanna (Rose Ann) and Catherine, with their husbands.

   In the fall of 1850, William and Sarah, with daughters Mary, Nancy, Prudence and Elmira  were living in Hendricks Township. They, along with most of their married children and many of their friends and neighbors, left for Page and Taylor Counties, Iowa about August 1850. William must have died just before they left, soon after their arrival, or on the trail. The wagon train was in Iowa by Sept. 14 and he died Sept. 1., according to a family Bible record.

The next record of Sarah is in January 1856 when she remarried to a widower ten years her senior, Jacob Beaver, in Page County, Iowa. They lived in Hawleyville, Iowa until about 1875, when they moved to Kansas. Many of the married Baker and Beaver children had already gone to various locations within the state. Jacob died in Kansas between 1875 and 1880.

Sarah is next found on the 1880 census living with Jesse and Elmira (Baker) Bridges in Lincoln Twp., Crawford County, Kansas.

Sometime after 1880, Sarah went with William and Prudence (Baker) Chase to Washington. She died in Myers Falls, Stevens County, Washington on 16 April 1894. Her death record verifies that her maiden name was Castator.  Her age is listed as 99, which does not agree with her birth record. Prudence gave the information and probably guessed at Sarah's age. The record states that her maiden name was "Castater" and for her mother it just says "born Sweden".

My line of descent from Sarah Castator:

Sarah Castator m. William Baker

George Baker m. Elizabeth Hollis

William Wiley Baker m. Cynthia Azem Foster

James Otis Baker m. Bertha Rachael Love

James R. Baker, Sr. m. Ruby Alene Wardrip

James R. Baker, Jr.