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1850's Family
from Godey's Lady's Book

Children of Philip Baker
and Mary Elizabeth Kessler
  • Elizabeth Baker Branstiter
  • George B. Baker
  • Mary M. Baker Rockel
  • Sarah A. Baker Hunt Bilger
  • William Baker
  • James Baker
  • Susannah Baker Ryman
  • Jacob Baker
  • Daniel Baker
  • Jefferson Baker
    		• James Baker and his twin, Susannah Baker Ryman, were born on July 4 1819 in German Township, Clark County, Ohio. Their parents were Philip Baker and Mary Elizabeth Kessler.

    James married Sarah Sample on February 12, 1846. Sarah was born on August 3, 1821 in Boone County, Illinois and was the daughter of John Sample and Sarah (Sally, Sallie) Pruitt. John and Sally are buried in Sample Cemetery with James' sister, Elizabeth Baker Branstiter.

    Their children were Sarah E. Baker (1847), Mary Ellen Baker (1850), Margaret Ann Baker (October 22, 1852), Eliza Jane Baker Allen (1854-1898), and James Martin Baker (1858). 

    The family appeared in the 1880 census in Jacksonville, Morgan County. The family consisted of James age 81 who was a farmer, Sarah age 47, Mary E. age 25, Liza J. age 23, and James M. age 22.

    James died on October 3, 1903 and Sally died on September 14, 1914in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois. They are buried together in Jacksonville East Cemetery, Morgan County, Illinois.

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    Clark County, Ohio was formed March 1, 1817, from Champaign, Madison and Greene Counties. The first settlement was in 1796. The inhabitants of German Township were German Lutherans who came from Virginia.

         
     

    James Baker, farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 7, township 15-9, P.O. Jacksonville; was born in Clark County, Ohio, in 1819; came to this county and precinct in 1842, with no money, and worked on a farm four years, for from eight to twelve dollars per month, when he bought his home farm of 306 acres, and improved it himself, to which he has added until now. He owns 600 acres, and can be classed as one of the most successful farmers in this county, which is the result of his own industry and perseverance; married Sarah Sample, Feb. 12, 1846; she was born in Boone County, Illinois, Aug. 3, 1821; have five children, all living: Sarah E., Mary Ellen, Margaret Ann, Eliza Jane, and James M.
    History of Morgan County, Illinois

    		  
         
     

    from History of Cass County, Illinois edited by William Henry Perrin

    Field Sample, Virginia House, Beardstown; was born near Jacksonville, Morgan Co., Ill., March 26, 1828, where he lived on a farm till 1879. At twenty-one years of age he began farming on his own account, which occupation he followed till 1879, when he rented his land and came to Beardstown. In addition to farming, he had followed brick-making for eleven years. In 1879, he and his brother, F. M. Sample, bought the furniture and fixtures of the Virginia House, which they ran under the firm name of Sample Bros., till May, 1882, when F. M. retired, leaving Field sole proprietor. Mr. Sample was twice elected Coroner of Morgan County, Ill., and also served as Deputy Sheriff of that county. In 1857, in Morgan County, Ill., he married Mary, daughter of David Ribelin, a farmer of that county. They have had six children, four of whom are living.

    John Sample, the father of our subject, was born in Warren County, Ky., about 1797, and when fourteen years old, came to Bond County, Ill., with his parents, who settled there. He served in the war of 1812. In Bond County, Ill., about the year 1816, he married Sarah Prewitt, a native of Kentucky, and in 1824 he settled on a farm near Jacksonville, where he resided the remainder of his life; he died in 1869, aged seventy-two years. He served as County Commissioner of Morgan County for three years; he was a Democrat. Field is the seventh child of a family of nine sons and four daughters, of which six sons and two daughters are living.

    		  

     

         

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