Brief Life History of Eunice Odessa
When Eunice Odessa Baker was born on 23 August 1886, in Morganfield, Union, Kentucky, United States, her father, William Kerney Baker, was 33 and her mother, Mary Jane Polly, was 31. She married Ivan Gibson on 26 December 1901, in Henderson, Henderson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Magisterial District 5 Sturgis, Union, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Jefferson, Kentucky, United States in 1930. She died on 7 November 1973, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 87.
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Sources (13)
- Dessa B Fridge in household of Carlyle R Fridge, "United States Census, 1940"
- Eunice Odessa Gibson, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Eunice Odessa Fridge, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
Spouse and Children
1883–1913 Male
1886–1973 Female
Children (2)
1903– Male
1909– Male
Parents and Siblings
1853–1941 Male
1854– Female
Siblings (9)
1873–1969 Female
1875–1953 Female
1878– Male
1880– Female
1883– Male
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World Events (8)
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
Age 4
1892 · The Radio is invented
Age 6
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Age 23
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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