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Baker-Jasper Ancestry beginning in England about 1653
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Baker-Jasper Ancestry beginning in England about 1653
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Thomas Baker Joan Bradley
Old Swinford, Worcestershire. The parish church with 16th century tower and spire. (drawn 1937) Drawing by William Albert Green. Pen & Ink www.ewgreen.org.uk
Thomas Baker was born Abt. 1653 in Old Swinfcrd, Stourbridge, Worchester, England. He married Joan Bradley October 27, 1675 in Old Swinford, Stourbridge, Worchester, England. Child of Thomas Baker and Joan Bradley is: William Baker, b. July 02, 1687, Old Swinford, (now Stourbridge), Worchester, England.
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William Baker Elizabeth Rogers
William Baker was born July 02, 1687 in Old Swinford, (now Stourbridge), Worchester, England. He married Elizabeth Rogers May 06, 1705 in Old Swinford, Stourbridge, Worchester, England. She was born June 11, 1683 in Old Swinford, (now Stourbridge), Worchester, England. Elizabeth was the daughter of Thomas Rogers who was born October 6, 1664 in Old Swinford, Stourbridge, Worchester, England. Name of her mother is unknown. Children of William Baker and Elizabeth Rogers are: William Baker, b. January 22, 1704/05, Old Swinford, (now Stourbridge), Worcbester, England; d. September 17, 1708, Old Swinford, (now Stourbridge), Worchester, England. James Baker, b. December 15, 1707, Old Swmford, (now Stourbridge), Worcbester, England; d. December 22, 1707, Old Swinford, (now Stourbridge), Worchester, England. George Baker, b. October 23, 1708, Old Swinford, (now Stourbridge), Worchester, England. Mary Baker, b. March 30, 1711, Old Swinford, (now Stourbridge), Worchester, England; d. Bef. 1719, Old Swinford, (now Stourbridge), Worchester, England. Humphrey Baker, b. May 04, 1713, Old Swinford, (now Stourbridge), Worchester, England; d. Abt. 1787, Probably Madison County, Kentucky. Ann Baker,b. July 11, 1715, Old Swinford, (now Stourbridge), Worchester, England. Elisabeth Baker, b. August 03, 1717, Old Swinford, (now Stourbridge), Worchester, England. Mary Baker, b. October 23, 1719, Old Swinford, (flow Stow-bridge), Worchester, England. William Baker, b. August 22, 1721, Old Swinford, (now Stourbridge), Worchester, England; d. 1731, Old Swinford, (now Stourbridge), Worchester, England. The old records were hard to read and William’s death date could have been either 1731 or 1741. He was baptized Aug 27, 1721. Thomas Baker, b. July 02, 1724, Old Swinford, (now Stourbridge), Worchester, England.
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Humphrey Baker Annie (Unknown)
Humphrey Backer was born May 04, 1713 in Old Swinford, (now Stourbridge), Worchester, England, and died Abt. 1787 in Probably Madison County, Kentucky. Wife Unknown. Humphrey was baptized the same day he was born. He came from Stourbridge, England to America in 1729 at the age of 16 as an indentured servant to William Burg of Maryland. He was indentured for six years. He lived in the Hagerstown, Maryland area. After serving the term of his indenture he removed to Virginia and was the first permanent settler in the present day Washington County. Washington County was taken from Augusta County. He accumulated a considerable amount of wealth before his death. He is listed in “Virginia Colonial Militia, 1651-1776” as a Captain from Augusta County, Virginia. State and County records of Virginia and Tennessee archives and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; published histories. Humphrey Baker was the first permanent settler of Washington County,Virginia. born in 1713, he emigrated to America from Sow-bridge, England at age 18 (now proven to be 16-Nadene), in 1729. For the first few years in America, he resided in Maryland. Humphrey was part of the vanguard of first settlers migration into what was then Orange County. He married about 1736, and the following year Humphrey and wife Anne’s first child, Thomas was born. In 1742 Baker was in the area on the Southern edge of the Broden tract, which extended Southwestwardly below the present city of Lexington. He was a member of Capt. John McDowell’s company of militia. This company was engaged in the first major clash between the settlers and the Iroquois in December 1742 near the Balcony Falls of the James River. Humphrey was with the first frontiersmen on the Woods River, later New River, in 1745. He settled at the Buffalo Pound, a major Indian crossing on the river and across from the settlement of Indian trader Samuel Stalnaker. In 1746 Baker was one of the 22 settlers named to clear the first road in the area from the North Branch of the Roanoke River to New River and on through the area where Blacksburg was built. Humphrey received on May 18, 1750, the first deed for land on the western waters for the Buffalo Pound tract deeded from John Buchanan. That same year he was appointed constable for the Buffalo Pound-Draper’s Meadow area. He was now 39 and the father of three sons, Thomas, John and George. In 1752, Humphrey moved to future Washington County, Virginia, where 436 acres was surveyed for him on April 9, 1753, on Stalnaker’s Creek, today’s Hutton Creek, near the present town of Glade Spring. The land which lay on both sides of the creek included the path over Walker Mountain to the North Fork of the Holston and beyond and northwest of Stalnaker, who had settled on the Indian fields in 1750. This made Baker the western most settler at the time. Stalnaker only had a lease “to crop” for his trading-post settlement. Historian J. Allen Neal in his bicentennial history Washington County, Virginia, incorrectly concluded that the Stalnaker settlement was “west of that of Baker”, that Hutton Creek was Stalnakers Creek and Baker’s Creek was the stream that follows the Smyth-Washington County line. Actually, Stalnaker’s Creek, Baker’s Creek, and the present Hutton’s Creek, are one and the same, depending on which period of history is being considered. The survey from patents and deeds confirm it. For many years after 1752, the Baker settlement was the farthest outpost of the frontier. In late 1753, Humphrey was among the 20 heads of families named to clear the first road from the head of the Holston to Stalnaker and the Baker settlement. Continued in related story for Humphrey Baker. The Shawnee began their attacks on the western most Holston frontier in May 1755 by attacking Humphrey Baker’s settlement and wounding his daughter Mary. A month later Stalnaker’s settlement was attacked. The Indians captured Stalnaker, killed several of the settlers, including members of Stalnaker’s family, and drove the frontier settlements back to the New River area and over the Blue Ridge. The Indian raids spread back to New River, the Buffalo Pound and Draper’s Meadow. Many settlers were killed, wounded, or taken into captivity. By now Humphrey and Anne’s family included in addition to sons Thomas, John and George, a new son, Robert who was born in 1754, possibly the first white child born in future Washington County, and a daughter, Mary. Humphrey and son Thomas, who married during this period, served in the frontier militia during the French and Indian War. In 1767, Humphrey, now 56, returned with his family to his land in future Washington County. Other settlers followed during the next few years, but Stalnaker never returned. Stalnaker’s Creek became known as Baker’s Creek and the area became Baker’s settlement. The gap in the Walker Mountain to the North Fork of the Holston was called Baker’s Gap, now known as McCall Gap. The elder Baker’s son, Thomas, was a member of the Edding Spring Church on the Middle Fork in 1773. He served in the Indian wars for almost seven years and was wounded at the battle of Point Pleasant on October 10, 1774. Thomas and his brother George signed the Fincastle County Petition of 1776, which resulted in the formation of Washington County, Virginia. Thomas was granted land near Sinclair’s Bottom in 1774; that same year George was granted land at Baker’s Gap which adjoined his Father’s land. Thomas was granted land on the north bank of the Nolichucky River in North Carolina, now Tennessee. Robert Baker was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, serving from 1776 to 1781. He was at the Battle of Island Flats (1776) and at Fort Patrick Henry (1776-77). He fought against the Tories on the Yadkin River (1779), at the Battle of King’s Mountain where he was wounded (1780) and was on the expedition against the Cherokee towns (1780-81). Both Robert, who also was granted land adjoining his father’s land, and George later moved to what is now Green County, Tennessee - George by 1783 and Robert in 1788. During the American Revolution the Baker settlement on Baker’s Creek became a marshaling area for public stores. Humphrey’s youngest son, Alexander, was of tithable age in 1782, but in 1788 only Humphrey, John and Mary were left at the Baker settlement. That year, Humphrey, now 77, and Anne sold their 1753 survey on Baker’s Creek to John Hatton (Hutton), hence present-day Hutton Creek. By 1790 only Mary Baker was left. During this period members of the Humphrey Baker family and the next generation were helping establish the State of Franklin and, later the State of Tennessee. Children of Humphrey Baker are: Thomas Baker, b. Abt. 1737, Virginia; d. September 29, 1814, EstiIl County. Kentucky. Mary Baker, b. Abt.1739. John Baker, b. Abt. 1740. George Baker, b. Abt. 1741. Robert Baker, b. January 17, 1754, Augusta County, Virginia; d. August 06, 1834, Montgomery County, Missouri. Alexander Baker.
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Thomas Baker Unknown
Thomas Baker was born Abt.1737 in Virginia, and died September 29, 1814 in Estill County, Kentucky. He married (Unknown). Thomas served as a scout during Lord Dunsmore War during the American Revolution and was wounded in his arm and thigh at Point Pleasant. He drew a pension in later years and received a grant of 100 acres in Kentucky based on this injury. I found a description of what a scout was in “My Southern Family”. It reads: Scouts or spies as many called them, were selected from volunteers. They were rugged, self-reliant, courageous, dreaded little the loneliness of days on the march deep down Big Sandy, Tug Fork or the Kentucky. They went in two’s or four’s, carried food for the duration of their journeys. They were forbidden to use their guns except in the direst emergencies, were forbidden even to build a fire. Skulking Indians might hear or see and ambush them. Many a frontier settlement went up in flames and its inhabitants carried off or massacred because its protecting scouts were killed”. At the time of his death he was co-owner of a tannery or tanyard in Estill County, Kentucky with his son-in-law, William Bell. He left his share of the business to William. Children of Thomas Baker and (Unknown) are: Jacob Baker, b. Abt. 1768, Virginia; d. December 28, 1840, Montgomery County, Illinois. Joseph Baker, b. Abt.1773; d. Bef. September 29, 1814. Humphrey Baker, b. March 07, 1774, Virginia; d. July 25, 1845, Carter County, Kentucky. Rebecca “Betsy” Baker, b. Abt. 1776; m. John Nix, December 29, 1797, Madison County, Kentucky. William Baker, b. Abt. 1777. Thomas Baker, b. Abt. 1780; d. Bef. September 29, 1814. Mary “Polly” Baker, b. Abt. 1787; m. William Bell, August 15, 1809, Estill County, Kentucky. Sarah ‘Sally” Baker, b. Abt. 1789; m. Thomas Hubbard, JR., November 10, 1810, EstilI County, Kentucky. Catherine “Cam” Baker, b. Abt. 1793, Madison County, Kentucky; d. Bef. 1840.
THOMAS BAKER’S WILL, 1814 Estill Co. Kentucky Sept. 28, 1814 FHL film #0254,623 Transcribed by Meredith Rond In the name of God Amen I Thomas BAKER, Sr. of the county of Estill and state of Kentucky being sick and weak in body but of sound mind memory and under standing (praised be God for it) and considering the certainty of Death and the uncertainty of thereof and to the end that I may be the better proper so to leave this world when ever it shall please God to call me hence do therefore make and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner & form follow (that is to say) First & principally I command my soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator hoping for free pardon and remission of all my sins and to enjoy everlasting happiness in his heavenly Kingdom through Christ Jesus my saivior my body I commit to the earth at the discretion of my executors herein after named and as to such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to intrust me I dispose of the same as follows. First I do hereby bequeath unto my son in law William BELL all my interest in the Tanyard that I was concerned in and it is my desire that the instrument of writing which the said William BELL gave me me (sic) when he was on the verge of starting to the Army be considered nul and void. Second I do bequeath unto my sons Jacob BAKER, the heirs of Joseph BAKER, Humphrey BAKER, William BAKER and the heirs of Thomas BAKER, jr, deceased One Dollar. Third I do give & bequeath unto my several daughters Betsy NIX, Polly BELL, & Sally HUBBARD one dollar. Fourthly I do give and bequeath unto my daughter Caty BAKER, Ten Dollars. Memorandum that on the 28th Day of September in the year 1814 Thomas BAKER being Sick with the Sickness whereof he died on the Day following did (at) the house of William BELL in the County of Estill and state of Kentucky make and declare his last will & testament. (end, no signature, witnesses or recording date)
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Jacob Baker Anna Turner
Jacob Baker was born Abt.1768 in Virginia, and died December 28, 1840 in Montgomery County, Illinois. He married Anna Turner November 15, 1791 in Madison County, Kentucky, daughter of John Turner and Rebeca Smith. She was born Abt. 1764 in Rowan County, North Carolina, and died Bet. 1840-1850 in Montgomery County, Illinois. Children of Jacob Baker & Anna Turner. John Baker, b. Abt.1798, Kentucky; d. March 06, 1853, Iowa. Andrew Baker, b. Abt. 1800; m. Abby/Ibbey Hayes, April 08, 1825, White County, Illinois. Comfort Baker, b. Abt. 1805, Madison County, Kentucky; d. Aft.1870, Graves County, Kentucky. Jacob Baker, JR, b.September 06, 1811, Pulaski County, Kentucky; d. December 19, 1853, Montgomery County, Illinois. Elizabeth ("Betsy") Baker. b.1792 Kentucky d.1863, Pulaski County, Kentucky. Note: Comfort Baker( is the 2nd great grandmother of Ardilla Nadene Johnson). She married John Kiger, JR. April 13, 1820 in White County, Illinois, son of John Kiger and Nancy (Lnij). He was born Abt. 1795 in North Carolina, and died Abt. 1865 in Graves County, Kentucky. Children of Comfort Baker and John Kiger are: Rebecca Kiger, b. 1826, Illinois; d. Graves County, Kentucky. Ruth Kiger, b. 1826, White County, Illinois; d. Graves County, Kentucky. William Kiger, b. Abt. 1829, Graves County, Kentucky; d. Bef. 1879, Graves County, Kentucky. Mary Kiger, b. Abt. 1834, Graves County, Kentucky. John Kiger III, b. Abt. 1838, Graves County, Kentucky; d. Bet. 1861 - 1865, Fort Donelson, Tennessee. James Kiger, b. Abt. 1840, Graves County, Kentucky. Without the help of Ardilla Nadene Johnson we would not have been able to make this link in our family tree. The baker information is support with DNA testing, go to www.bakerdna.net this group is orange. Thank you Nadene. The Jasper line continues here.
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Abraham Jasper Elizabeth ("Betsy") Baker
Abraham Jasper was born circa 1789 in South Carolina and died 1861 Pulaski Co KY. Abraham married Elizabeth "Betsy" Baker on 19 Sep 1808 in Pulaski Co KY. Elizabeth was born in 1792 in Kentucky and died after 1860 in Pulaski Co KY. Elizabeth was the daughter of Jacob Baker and Annie Turner. Children of Abraham Jasper & Elizabeth Baker. Ann Jasper, Andrew Jasper, Thomas Jasper, John Jasper, William Jasper, Gideon Jasper, Nancy Jasper, Mary "Polly"Jasper, Merrill Jasper, Terrell Jasper, Nicholas Jasper, Jacob Jasper, Elizabeth Jasper.
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William Jasper Nancy Ida Ford Hinds
William Jasper and Nancy Ida Ford Hinds daughter of John Ford?(born before 1784/KY) Nancy was born Nov 17, 1815, KY and died Feb 2, 1894/probably, KY buried Jasper Cemetery, Pulaski Co., KY She married William Jasper on Jan 2, 1849 in Pulaski Co, KY. She had at least 5 children (ages 7-16) from previous marriage to Levi Hinds born before 1816 and died before 1849/Texas. James C. Hinds born about 1833/KY, John R. Hinds born about 1834/KY, Gearing Hinds born about 1836/KY, Matthew Hinds born about 1839/KY married Louisa Robinson Jan 28, 1858 in Pulaski Co, KY, Ezekiel Hinds born about 1842/KY. William and Nancy had the following children: Kissiah F. Jasper born May 13, 1850, Mintonville, Pulaski Co., KY died March 16, 1931, Caintown, Pulaski Co., KY buried in Chesterview Cemetery, Pulaski Co., KY. Married Gale E. Weddle on April 3, 1867 in Pulaski Co, KY at home of her father, William Jasper. She had many Weddle children. Thomas P. Jasper married Priscilla Malvina Huffaker on March 15/16, 1871. Thomas P. was born 1/7/1853 and died 7/6/1924 and is buried at Jasper cemetery in Pulaski County. Priscilla was born 6/1/1855 and died 4/16/1898 and is buried at Morgan cemetery in Pulaski County. After Priscilla Malvina died in 1898, Thomas P. married Elizabeth Dye 7/16/1902 and she is buried with him at Jasper cemetery in Pulaski County.
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Thomas P. Jasper Priscilla Malvina Huffaker's
Elizabeth Dye 2nd Wife in Pitcher
Thomas P. Jasper married Priscilla Malvina Huffaker on March 15/16, 1871. Thomas P. was born 1/7/1853 and died 7/6/1924 and is buried at Jasper cemetery in Pulaski County. Priscilla was born 6/1/1855 and died 4/16/1898 and is buried at Morgan cemetery in Pulaski County. His married Elizabeth Dye 7/16/ July 1902. The 1864-1886 Pulaski County Marriage book has listed: Thomas P. Jasper (18) and Priscilla Malvina Huffaker (16) 3/15/1871 first marriage for both at the home of Wm. Wilson. Their daughter, Elizabeth Katherine Jasper born1876 married William Marion Vaught was the daughter of Thomas P.Jasper and Priscilla Malvina Huffaker. The Vaught line continues here.
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William Marion Vaught Elizabeth (Betty) Jasper
William Marion Vaught was born 1/27/1867 died 1/31/1960 buried in Shady Grove Cemetery. Married Elizabeth K. Jasper born 6/1/1875 and died 2/16/1960. They were married 3/8/1896 in Pulaski County. She was his second wife, he was married first to Hulda (or Hilda) E. Dick on 9/12/1886. We believe she died young, perhaps in childbirth as they had a daughter Louisa B. Vaught who was born Jan 1889. The children as we have them for William & Elizabeth are as follows: Martha A. Vaught born 12/18/1896 died 4/18/1964, James D. or P. Vaught born. 2/13/1898 died 4/15/1956, Bonnie F. Vaught born Apr,1899 married Walter Trusty grandmother of Daniel, Maureen, Thomas, Patricia, Margaret. Killas E. Vaught born. 6/28/1901 died 1/3/1956, Sallie B. Vaught born 6/8/1902 died 8/21/1972, John G. Vaught born 11/29/1903 died 8/7/1971, William Chester Vaught born 5/1/1905 died 8/21/1972, Charles V. Vaught born 10/9/1908 died 9/5/1924, Cyres Thomas Vaught born 12/27/1911 died 12/13/1997, Zella M. Vaught born 11/27/1915 (still alive) Jarvis Vaught born 4/18/1918 died. 11/9/1993.
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Walter V. Trusty Bonnie F. Vaught
We think Walter V. Trusty was born in 1891. We know he was born in KY/ his father was also born in KY/his mother was born in Kansas. He married Bonnie Vaught (daughter of William Marion Vaught and Elizabeth Catherine Jasper Vaught) in Somerset, (Pulaski County) KY, also born in KY, married her sometime around 1916-17. Marguerite Trusty Molloy’s notes show her born April 13, 1898 and dying Sept. 12, 1947. They moved to Cincinnati, OH. He may have had other relatives in Cincinnati. We think they may have been the Allie May Trusty line in Cincinnati, also others maybe in Akron and Canton, OH (we think). Walter was killed working for the Pennsylvania Railroad 1945 somewhere between Cincinnati and Louisville. When Walter and Bonnie divorced/the children went to the custody of Walter who supported them by working for the Pennsylvania Railroad (probably divorced mid to late 1920s, (he boarded then with relatives here in Cincinnati and in Akron, OH). In 1930 census the three children are listed as living in a boarding house in Stark County, Plain TWP, OH. Marguerite was 12, Bill was 10 and Tom was 6. We believe they also lived with relatives on his side - the Trusty/Debord/Merritt family in Cincinnati for some time after this, We think. Bonnie had another daughter subsequently that she named Bonnie, who was half-sister to Marguerite, Tom and Bill. This half-sister died in 2002 (cancer, We believe) in Canton where she lived most of her adult life, We believe. Her married name was Keller (Kellar?) and she had 4-5 children. A 1920 Cincinnati census shows a Walter V. Trusty who was 26 and a machinist for the RR. He was born KY, his father KY and his mother was born in Kansas. Bonnie was 19 (We think she may have been 21) and born KY as also were her parents in (William Marion and Elizabeth Jasper). Marguerite was 1 year and 7 months old at this time, so we assume the census was filled out in January, 1920, and she was born in OH. She was born in Cincinnati – Amelia Earhart shows as a midwife on her birth certificate! and there was a 16 year old niece living with them whose last name was DeBord born in KY . The children of Walter V & Bonnie F are as follows: Marguerite, Bill, Tom.
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Daniel A. Molloy Marguerite J. Trusty
Daniel A. Molloy married Marguerite Jean (Trusty) in 1941. Daniel born Cincinnati, OH/ November 30, 1908 died September 13, 1975. Marguerite Jean born May 26, 1918/Cincinnati, OH died January 17, 2000 pancreatic cancer.
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