MONROE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: BAKER, Jacob
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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 303

JACOB BAKER

About 1787 Jacob came with the Lewis family from the Valley of Virginia and 
was the first professional baker employed at Sweet and Sweet Chalybeate 
Springs.  Later he settled on the Faudree farm four miles West of Sweet 
Spring. He married Christina C. Goliday (1761c-1851) who never learned to 
speak English. Their son Jacob (Polly Hull, 1811) was born here in 1788 and 
died 1860. 
C: John (Nancy Calwell)-George W. (Mary Carter)-David (Rachel Tigert)-Henry ( 
     Argabrite) Lewis (Catharine Worsham)-Anderson (Mary Griflith)-Chapman 
(Ann Griflith)-Mary  (Peter Carter)-Elizabeth  (Conrad Piles)~atharine (Adam 
Piles).
C.  of John: W. A. (Catharine Lugar)-C. 0. (Caroline Kelly)-George (Mattie 
Lugar)-David 0. (       Jones)-Joseph B. (Nicatia
Baker, Amanda Wickline)-J H. (Mary E. Eggleston)-Julia A.  (John
H.  Cook)-Mary E. (Daniel S. Wickline)-Amanda C. (F. L. Beckner)
-Eliza J. (John E. Wickline, Jr.).
Another Baker was David (d. 1840)-C: Jacob, Catharine (  Ragland), Anne, 
Madison, Sarah. Still another was Frederick, naturalized
1811, d. 1830 (Elizabeth)-C: John-Frederick (Nancy Rains)-Joseph-Sarah (Jacob 
Pyles, 1818)-Elizabeth (   Given).