Brief Life History of Phymelia P
When Phymelia P Baker was born in June 1850, in Danby, Rutland, Vermont, United States, her father, Benjamin Marsh Baker, was 42 and her mother, Philomela Patch, was 37. She married Holland Wright Dawson on 3 June 1871, in Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 14 September 1919, in Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Cuttingsville, Shrewsbury, Rutland, Vermont, United States.
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- Phimelia Dawson in household of Holland Dawson, "United States Census, 1900"
- Phymelia Baker Dawson, "Find A Grave Index"
- Philomelia Baker, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1864 · St. Albans Raid
St. Albans Raid took place on October 19, 1864. It was a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory. Confederate soldiers that were in Canada raided the town of St. Albans killed one person and robbed three banks.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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