Brief Life History of David Elisha
When David Elisha Baker was born on 14 April 1824, in Cumberland Gap, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States, his father, Robert Clay Baker, was 22 and his mother, Sarah Christenberry, was 17. He married Susan Hardesty on 4 June 1863, in Greene, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Center Township, Greene, Indiana, United States in 1860. He died on 22 August 1908, in Koleen, Jackson Township, Greene, Indiana, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Howell Cemetery, Jackson Township, Greene, Indiana, United States.
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Sources (12)
- David Baker in household of Robert Baker, "United States Census, 1860"
- David Baker, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- David Baker, "Indiana Death Index, 1882-1920"
Spouse and Children
1824–1908 Male
1843–1907 Female
Children (7)
1864–1955 Male
1866–1937 Male
1873– Female
1873–1937 Male
1877–1903 Female
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Parents and Siblings
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Siblings (13)
1824–1908 Male
1824–1851 Male
1826–1910 Female
1830–1912 Female
1832–1899 Male
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World Events (8)
1825 · The Crimes Act
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1846
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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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