Surnames in this message: BAKER, HILL, WHITE, BARKHOUSEN, MISENHEIMER, WORKS, OSBEN, NEWTON. The information below is submitted for the benefit of anyone interested. These are not my people and I have no further data on them. According to census data, info at the WorldConnect Project and the IL Statewide Marriage Index, David Baker of Pulaski and Pope Cos IL had at least three wives: 1) Permelia or Amelia Hill, m in Union Co IL 25 Aug 1859; 2) Mrs. Mary (White) Barkhousen, m in Pulaski Co IL 6 Aug 1873; and 3) Anna Misenheimer, m 31 Dec 1880 Pulaski Co. =============================== 1870 CENSUS, PULASKI CO IL, Wetauga Caledonia P.O.; p. 14, 11Aug1870, T14, R1E DAVID BAKER 30 NC Amelia 30 IL Julia 10 IL Mary 8 IL Hugh 5 IL (Next entry is Simon Barkhousen. On same page as Simon is William Barkhousen 23 IL with Mary 26 IL and Emma 1. ======================================= 1880 CENSUS, PULASKI CO IL, Wetauga, Page 162C From online LDS transcription. (Spellings unchanged.) DAVIED BAKER 40 NC NC NC farmer Mary E., wife 31 IL KY AR Huey, son 11 IL NC NC Emma BARKHOUSER, dtr, 12 IL IL IL Harry BAKER, son 9 IL NC IL Delia BAKER, dtr 9 months IL NC IL John WORKS, nephew, 11 IL -- NC Hiram OSBEN, other, 32 IL -- --, laborer ============================== 1900 CENSUS, POPE CO IL, Alexander Pct DAVID BAKER, b Feb 1840, married 19 years, NC Annie, wife, b Jun 1848, 4 ch, 1 living, IL Harvey, son, b Nov 1870, 29, widower Mary, gdtr, b Oct 1894, IL IL IL Pearlie, gdtr, b Mar 1888 IL ============================== A submission to Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project shows David McHenry Baker, born 24 Jan 1840 NC, d 11 Jul 1908, m/1 Amelia Hill. Children: Julliett Baker, Huey Crockett Baker, and Harvey Levi Baker b 13 Nov 1870. Gives additional data on Harvey's family. ========================== IL Statewide Marriage Index shows Juliette Baker m James K. Newton 11 Oct 1893 Pope Co IL. 1900 Pope Co census shows Juliette, wife of James K. Newton, as born in Feb 1866 in IL, father b IL and mother b NC. [David's dtr "Julia", if 10 in 1870, should have been 40 in 1900.] Coincidentally, Newton's wife prior to Juliette Baker was also named Juliette. Juliette (Baker) Newton had a son Carl D. Newton, b Jul 1897. 1920 Pope Co census shows James K. with sons Donald (prob Carl D.), age 22, and son Ora? 20. ========================== Illinois death records show Harvey Levi Baker died in Pope Co IL on 13 May 1934. ========================== http://www.iltrails.org/union/guardianships_A.htm Allie Baker mentioned in guardianship papers of Hughie Baker in 1909, when apparently Hughie's guardian's final accounting was made in Union Co IL. ============================ Database of Illinois Civil War Veterans http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/GenealogyMWeb/CivilWarSearchServlet Shows the name David Baker from Dongola as private in Co I, 109th IL Inf; and a David Baker from Union County as a recruit in both Co K and Co F of the 11th IL Inf. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Crawford" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 3:15 PM Subject: [ILUNION] A tragedy > This is being posted to the three web sites that these families lived in, > in hopes of an understanding to a possible tragedy. > > Hugh BAKER who's parents are assumed to be Davied (spelled as per the > census) BAKER and Mary Louisa BARKHOUSEN. > > Mary C. CRAWFORD mispelled CROFFORD on the marriage license. License dated > 3/15/1887 in Pulaski Co. Her parents are William CRAWFORD and Sarah > (BARNHART) LENTZ CRAWFORD. > > They had three daughters: > > Pearl E. BAKER Bn: 3/15/1888 Pope Co. > > Lela Alta (Allie) BAKER Bn: 8/29/1890 Pope Co. > > Hughie Belle BAKER Bn: 8/22/1892 Pulaski Co. > > By the 1900 census the three daughters were living with the two > grandmothers. Also have court records indicating that both parents are > deceased. What could have happened to wipe out the parents between 1892 > and 1900- an accident, murders, murder/suicide? > > Living in Arizona I have had a hard time researching this. If anyone can > help it would be greatly appreciated. > > TIA > > Talk at me later, > > Bob C. > Tucson AZ > > CRAWFORD(CROFFORD), LENTZ(LENCE), BARNHART(BARNHARDT), BAKER, HILL, > HOLSHOUSER, DAVIS >