Brief Life History of Sarah Ellen
When Sarah Ellen Baker was born on 20 January 1858, in Grant, Kentucky, United States, her father, Dotson Throp Baker, was 34 and her mother, Mary Ann Ashcraft, was 34. She had at least 1 daughter with Jim Tomlin. She lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870. She died in 1922, in Magisterial District 5 Grassy Creek, Pendleton, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 64.
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- Sarah A E Baker in household of Dotson Baker, "United States Census, 1860"
- Sarah Ann E. Baker, "Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960"
- Mrs. Sarah Ann Tomlin, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
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1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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