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Andrew Baker, b. 1765, d. 1841
dates taken from tombstone in Byrant Cemetery, on Sinking Creek, in Laurel Co, KY Married twice. Name of first wife is not known. He married (2) in 1816, in Washington Co, TN to Nancy Ann Briant. On the 1850 Census of Laurel Co, KY, her name is given as Hannah, and she married in 1852, in Laurel Co, KY to James Adams. Andrew Baker is "believed" to be a son of John Renta Baker.
Children of Andrew Baker - names were taken from Marriage Records:
Eleanor Baker b. ca 1804 TN Married 10 Jan 1827, Laurel Co, KY to William Dees b. 1807 This family living in Jackson Co, KY in 1850 Ufamy/Ufany Baker b. ca 1808 TN Married 9 April 1833, Laurel Co, KY to James Barnard Polly Baker b. ca 1815/6 TN Married 23 Nov 1840, Laurel Co, KY to James Whitaker, b. 1803 KY?, d 28 Nov 1858 Laurel Co, KY Martha "Patsy" Baker b. ca 1817 Married 19 April 1834, in Knox Co, KY to John Smith John Smith is listed as father and Andrew Baker bondsman. Smith Baker b. 1818, KY Married 7 Nov. 1838, Laurel Co, KY to Nancy Trosper, b. 1818, KY Smith and Nancy moved to Rockcastle ca 1858 and raised their family there. John Boling Baker b. ca 1824, KY Married 10 Oct 1843, Laurel Co, KY, to Catherine Trosper, who died in 1862, in Rockcastle Co, KY. After the death of Catherine, John Boling then married Elizabeth Walters Mullins, a widow of John Mullins, and they had 2 children. John Boling Baker died 1879, according to Vital Records in 1879, in Laurel Co., Ky. Elizabeth Walters Mullins Baker then married John Nix. It is believed that John Boling Baker is also buried in the Bryant Cemetery, as this is the area the family lived in at the time of his death and where the Nix family lived and where their family cemetery is located.
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