Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Baker was born on 8 April 1824, in Millersburg, Bourbon, Kentucky, United States, her father, Robert E. Baker, was 24 and her mother, Rachel Baker, was 17. She married William Warden Miller on 6 May 1840, in Callaway, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Callaway, Callaway, Missouri, United States in 1850 and District 18, Callaway, Missouri, United States in 1860. She died on 18 July 1863, in Callaway, Missouri, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, United States.
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- Elizabeth Miller in household of Wm W Miller, "United States Census, 1850"
- Elizabeth Baker, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
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1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1830 · Louisville and Portland Canal Opens
The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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