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Subject: John Baker Line/Somerset Co.
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 15:18:01 EDT

This is one of my lines in Somerset County. Noah and Mary Smith Baker
migrated from Somerset Co. to Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska about 1908-09.
Mary Geiger is one of my brickwalls. I would love to find which Geiger family
she belongs to in Somerset County.
My line is:
John Baker & Mary Albright(daughter of John and Elizabeth Albright)
John Baker & Mary Geiger
Noah Baker & Mary Smith (daughter of Christian Smith and Elizabeth Weimer)
Maggie Baker & Lyman Jenkins
Helen Jenkins & Oscar Peterson
Marjorie Peterson Southard

JOHN BAKER was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1784. Very early in life,
he came to this county and settled where Wellersburg now is, before a single
hut marked the site of the town. He afterward bought and cleared the farm on
which his son Benjamin now lives. He followed farming and blacksmithing. Mr
Baker married Polly Albright, and was the father of seventeen children, He died
in 1853. The surviving members of his family are: Benjamin, Jonathan, Solomon,
Jesse, David, Michael, Joseph, Maria (Lepley), Kate (Getty) and Susan
(Knepp). Benjamin Baker, now an old resident, is living on the old homestead where he
was born. He purchased the farm from his father in 1851.
FROM THE HISTORY OF SOMERSET , BEDFORD AND FULTON COUNTY BY WATERMAN &
WATKINS & CO. PUBLISHED 1884 PG. 578

CENSUS RECORDS JOHN BAKER SR.
1810 SOMERSET CO. PA M-252-R0LL 53 COPY #2
Baker, John-- 2 males under 10,1 female 16-26, 1 male 16-26 Quemahoming
Township Somerset PA

1820 CENSUS SOMERSET CO. PA M-33 ROLL 111
Baker, John-7 males under 10, 1 female 16-25, 2 makes 26-45, 1 male 45 and
over, Greenville or Southampton Township Somerset PA agriculture

1830 CENSUS SOMERSET CO. PA M-19 ROLL 161
Baker, John--- 3 males under 5, 3 males 5-10, 2 males 10-15, 1 male 15-20, 1
male 40-50, 1 female under 5, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 30-40, Southampton
Township Somerset PA

1850 CENSUS GREENVILLE TOWNSHIP SOMERSET COUNTY PA. ENUMERATED 23 DAY OF
OCTOBER BY JOHN H. SMITH
HOUSEHOLD 46-45
Baker, John-age 65, male, farmer, value 3000, born PA, persons in household
married within year 2, persons in household attending school within the year 3,
persons over 20 who cannot read or write l
Baker, Mary---age 56, female, born PA
Baker, John-age 34, male, laborer, born PA
Baker, Mary---age 27, female, born PA (John JR wife)
Baker, David---age 22, male, born PA, 1 insane
Baker, Jonathon---age 18, male, Teamster, born PA
Baker, Susan---age 19, female, born PA
Baker, Elizabeth---age 15, female, born PA
Baker, Michael---age 14, male, born PA
Baker, Joseph---age 11, male, born PA
Albright, Mary---age 10, female, born PA (Probably daughter of Jacob Albright
uncle of Mary Albright Baker)

LINCOLN STAR LINCOLN NEBRASKA
APRIL 30, 1934 OBITUARY NOAH BAKER

Baker, Noah-Died at his home, 1610 A street at 4:10 o'clock Monday morning.
He was 83 years old. He is survived by nine daughters Mrs. John C. Close of
Maryland, Mrs. William Naggs of West Virginia. Mrs. H. B. Miller, Mrs. Robert
Paetz, Mrs. Agnes Mankemeyer and Miss. Bertha Baker all of Lincoln, Mrs. Lyman
Jenkins of Manhattan, Kas., Mrs. H. O. Skilling of Beloit, Kas., and Mrs. Ben
Beckman of Sprague, Neb,; and two sons, John E. of Lincoln and William R. of
Lincoln. The body is at Castle, Roper & Matthews pending funeral arrangements.

LINCOLN STAR MAY 1, 1934
Baker, Noah-Funeral services for Mr. Baker will by held at Castle, Roper &
Matthews chapel at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Rev. G. Keller Rubrecht
officiating. Interment at Lincoln Memorial park.

LINCOLN STAR MAY 2, 1934
Baker, Noah- funeral service for Mr. Baker were held at Castle, Roper &
Matthews chapel Wednesday afternoon. Rev. G. Keller Rubrecht officiating. Miss.
Kathryn Dean sang. Interment at Lincoln Memorial Park. Pallbearers were Walt
Shaffer, M. F. Egan, C. H. Dean, Arthur Bruce, Cal Phillips, and U. S.
Wochner.

Would love to exchange information with any other researchers of this line of
Baker's.

Marjorie Southard
Buckeye, AZ

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