WILLIAM BAKER  (JOHN³, JOHN², UNKNOWN¹) was born February 05, 1793 in Kentucky (probably Fayette Co.), and died September 01, 1850.  He married SARAH CASTATOR Bet. 1813 – 1816, probably in the Pendleton Co., Ky area. She was the daughter of PETER CASTATOR and SUSANNAH UNKNOWN.  She was born September 12, 1797 in Kentucky, and died April 16, 1894 in Myers Falls, Washington (Buried Kettle Falls).

William and Sarah were in Pendleton Co., Kentucky on the 1820 and 1830 census.

In 1831 William and Sarah went to Shelby County, Indiana.

   There is a record of William buying land in Shelby County Indiana in 1831 and Nancy was born in Indiana in 1832.

   The family was in Hendricks Twp in 1840 and 1850. Sons, George and David are nearby, as are daughters, 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 in August 1850. Some of the family were in Iowa Sept. 14 and William died Sept. 1, 1850, either in Indiana, in Iowa or on the way.

   There is a question of who went to Iowa when. They seemed to have arrived in Iowa a few at a time between 1850 and 1855. It does appear that Sarah arrived with George and David so William probably died on the way west, BUT, she isn't with George or David on the 1851 or 1852 Iowa State Census. She remarried to Jacob Beaver in January 1856.

On the 1856 Iowa State Census, the question is asked "Years resident in the state".

William and Rosanna (Baker) Copeland said "3" (They came from Illinois)

Edward Hollis family said  "1"

Jesse and Mary (Baker) Bridges said  "1"

David Peter and Ann Baker  said "6"

The George Baker family said  "6"

Sarah (Castator-Baker) Beaver said  "7" (she probably meant 6, since she was in Shelby in 1850)

Some birth and death dates given here are from the David Peter Baker family Bible records.

Children of WILLIAM BAKER and SARAH CASTATOR are:

              i.     GEORGE BAKER, b. April 10, 1817, Pendleton Co. Kentucky; d. March 17, 1884, Kingsville, Johnson Co., Missouri (Bluff Spring Cemetery); m. ELIZABETH HOLLIS, August 23, 1838, Shelby Co. Indiana; b. 1821, Sussex County,  Delaware; d. January 20, 1894, Kingsville, Johnson Co., Missouri (Bluff Spring Cemetery).

             ii.     JANE BAKER, b. January 28, 1819, Pendleton Co., Kentucky.

Jane is on the 1840 census with William Baker, not there in 1850. She died or was married 1840-1850.

            iii.     CATHERINE BAKER, b. March 25, 1821, Pendleton Co., Kentucky; d. February 17, 1879, Hendricks Twp., Shelby County, Indiana (buried Snider Cemetery); m. JOHN T. UPDEGRAFF, July 26, 1838, Shelby Co. Indiana; b. Abt. 1817, Pennsylvania; d. July 1878, Hendricks Twp., Shelby County, Indiana (buried Snider Cemetery).

            iv.     ROSANNA (ROSE ANN) BAKER, b. January 14, 1823, Pendleton Co., Kentucky; d. November 21, 1876, Page Co., Iowa (age 54y 9m 26d) Hawleyville Cemetery; m. WILLIAM COPELAND, May 15, 1843, Shelby Co. Indiana; b. January 20, 1818, Perry County, Ohio; d. December 28, 1906, Clarinda, Page Co, IA (Hawleyville Cemetery).

             v.     DAVID PETER BAKER, b. March 24, 1825, Pendleton Co., Kentucky; d. February 15, 1885, Page Co., Iowa (Davis Cemetery); m. ANN SWIGGETT, April 09, 1846, Shelby Co. Indiana; b. February 12, 1827, Pennsylvania; d. December 15, 1903, Page Co., Iowa  (Davis Cemetery).

            vi.     SAMUEL BAKER, b. June 04, 1827, Pendleton Co., Kentucky; d. September 16, 1892, Jewell Co. Kansas (Buried Baker Cem., Burr Oak KS); m. ARTHUSA MONTGOMERY STONE, September 07, 1854, Pekin, Tazewell County, Illinois; b. April 14, 1838, Pekin, Tazewell County, Illinois; d. February 03, 1906, Washington, Washington Co., Kansas (buried Baker Cem. Burr Oak, KS).

           vii.     SUSANNA (SUSAN) BAKER, b. August 08, 1829, Pendleton Co., Kentucky; d. January 01, 1899, Villisca, Montgomery County, Iowa; m. JOEL M. PARKER, March 08, 1848, Shelby County, Indiana; b. 1822, Kentucky; d. July 22, 1887, Villisca, Montgomery County, Iowa.

                  viii.     NANCY BAKER, b. January 19, 1832, Shelby Co. Indiana. She was with the family in 1850, but not with them in Iowa later.  No further record.

            ix.     MARY BAKER, b. January 19, 1834, Shelby County, Indiana; d. Abt. 1856, Montgomery County, Iowa; m. JESSE B. BRIDGES, April 08, 1851, Johnson County, Indiana; b. June 17, 1809, Kentucky; d. November 09, 1887, Lincoln Twp., Crawford County, Kansas (Smiley Cemetery-one mile west and 1 mile south of Mulberry,Ks).

             x.     PRUDENCE ANN BAKER, b. April 11, 1836, Shelby Co., Indiana; d. December 12, 1900, Kettle Falls, Washington (Buried Myers Falls); m. (1) EZRA KNISELY, April 04, 1853, Page Co., Iowa; b. April 04, 1825, Highland County, Ohio; m. (2) WILLIAM CHASE, March 24, 1859, Page Co., Iowa; b. August 21, 1837, Jerseyville, Jersey County , Illinois; d. Bet. 1920 - 1930, Dinuba Twp, Tulare Co., California.

            xi.     SARAH BAKER, b. August 11, 1839, Shelby County, Indiana; d. Bef. July 1850, Shelby County, Indiana (not with the  family on the census in July).

           xii.     ELMIRA BAKER, b. March 28, 1843, Shelby Co. Indiana; d. Resided Olathe, Johnson Co.,  KS in 1900; m. JESSE B. BRIDGES, June 20, 1858, Nodaway Co., Missouri; b. June 17, 1809, Kentucky; d. November 09, 1887, Lincoln Twp., Crawford County, Kansas (Smiley Cemetery-one mile west and 1 mile south of Mulberry,Ks).