When Joseph Martin Baker was born on 20 March 1849, in Campbell, Tennessee, United States, his father, Samuel R. Baker, was 22 and his mother, Margaret Hatfield, was 22. He married Leah Douglas on 12 October 1868, in Campbell, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Mount Vernon, Faulkner, Arkansas, United States in 1894 and Enola, Faulkner, Arkansas, United States in 1920. He died after 15 January 1920, in Faulkner, Arkansas, United States, and was buried in Wilson Cemetery, Conway, Arkansas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries - 1851: Conway, Arkansas, United States; 1873: Faulkner, Arkansas, United States
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English: occupational name, from Middle English bakere, Old English bæcere, a derivative of bacan ‘to bake’. It may have been used for someone whose special task in the kitchen of a great house or castle was the baking of bread, but since most humbler households did their own baking in the Middle Ages, it may also have referred to the owner of a communal oven used by the whole village. The right to be in charge of this and exact money or loaves in return for its use was in many parts of the country a hereditary feudal privilege. Compare Miller . Less often the surname may have been acquired by someone noted for baking particularly fine bread or by a baker of pottery or bricks.
Americanized form (translation into English) of surnames meaning ‘baker’, for example Dutch Bakker , German Becker and Beck , French Boulanger and Bélanger (see Belanger ), Czech Pekař, Slovak Pekár, and Croatian Pekar .
History: Baker was established as an early immigrant surname in Puritan New England. Among others, two men called Remember Baker (father and son) lived at Woodbury, CT, in the early 17th century, and an Alexander Baker arrived in Boston, MA, in 1635.
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Possible Related NamesJ. M. Baker's marriage bond was paid by James Ricketts who was married to his sister Cinthia Baker. This was for his marriage to Bicy Shadoway. The Ricketts family appear as neighbors to Bicy and her …
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