Attention Baker Descendants!

Your help is needed to honor/mark the final resting place of Richard and Abigail (Beverly) Baker in the Jim Baker Cemetery on Bold Camp, outside of Pound, Wise County, Virginia. Richard and Abigail were pioneer settlers of this area and are the progenitors of many of the Southwest Virginia and Eastern Kentucky Baker family. Their children married into other pioneer families leaving thousands of descendants. Nancy Clark Brown has started a campaign to erect a monument to this couple and their children. Please email Nancy Clark Brown if you have any corrections or additions to this information or if you would like to make a donation to this project. By working together, we can help honor the memory of this family and insure that future generations will be able to find their final resting place.

Thanks for your support!

Separate matching headstones will be erected for:

Samuel Patrick Baker

1822 - 1862

Malinda Estep Baker Perry

1825 - 1884

A stone will also be erected for:

Charles Henderson Baker

Born 1853

Died October 9, 1885

His Daughter

L.E. Alloria Baker

Born March 28, 1881

Died October 15, 1884

They were victims of the Flux Epidemic

Richard Baker and his wife Abagail Beverly are the pioneer ancestors of the Baker Family in this area.

They were the parents of

George Baker Died Young

Samuel Patrick Baker Born 1822 married Malinda Estep

Amanda Baker Born 1824 married Charles Hibbitts

Mary Baker Born 1825 married James Butcher

Nancy Baker Born 1825 married Tom Webb

Cornelius Hick Baker Born 1828 married Socia Hammonds

Susannah Baker Born 1830 married David Forester Stallard

John Beverly Baker Born 1833 married Elizabeth Gordon

America Baker Born 1836 married Basil Mullins

Sarah Baker Born 1841 married Augustine Jones and Samuel Vanover

Eliza Jane Baker Born 1844 married Benjamin Salyers

Richard Baker Born 1846 married Nancy Margaret Gentry

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