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Anna Elizabeth Baker Ransbarger

  
17th century Germans often gave children two names at baptism. The first was a saint's name. The second a secular name which is what the child was called. The saint's name was usually given to all the children of that family of the same gender. Johannes was rarely a saint's name, but Johann was.
Children of Philip Baker
and Anna Catherine Gramm
  • Jacob Baker
  • John (Johannes) Baker
  • Philip Baker
  • Henry Baker
  • Conrad Baker
  • Samuel Baker
  • Daniel Baker
  • Martin Baker
  • Rudolph Baker
  • Anna Elizabeth Baker Ransbarger
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    Anna Elizabeth Baker Ransbarger was born about 1776 in Dunmore (now Page) County, Virginia. Her parents were Philip Baker and Anna Catherine Gramm.

    According to First Marriage Records of Augusta County, Virginia, 1785-1813 by Thomas Hughart Chapter she married George Ransbarger on April 4, 1796. The ceremony was performed by the Presbyterian Reverend William Wilson in Augusta County, Virginia. William Wilson was the second paster of the Old Stone Church in Fort Defiance near Staunton, Virginia.

    According to William Price in Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County, West Virginia

    The pastor of the Old Stone Church, Rev. William Wilson . . . and fifteen or twenty of the young people . . . came over [to Kentucky] together. They became imbued with the spirit of the moment and went back singing and praying as they traveled along. The effect upon the home people in the valley as they rode up singing and praying was overwhelming, and from the point-the Old Stone church--the revival influence went all over the State, wherever there were Presbyterian congregations. . .

     

    Frederick County was formed in 1743 from Orange County. It became Dunmore County in 1772. The name changed to Shenandoah County in 1778. Augusta County became Rockingham County in 1778. In 1881 Page County was created from Rockingham and Shenandoah Counties.

     

         

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