David Baker

Burial: SEP 1823 Greenville City Cemetery, Darke Co., Ohio

Note:

   David Baker, father of Andrew H. Baker, was a youth when brought to Ohio by his parents, and here attained his majority on the home farm. He married Salomi Hart, who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1797, and whose parents came to Ohio at the same time with the Bakers--the Hart children being named William, Elizabeth, Rebecca, and Salomi, of whom, Elizabeth and Rebecca were respectively married in Ohio. Elizabeth to a Mr. Kessler and later to Mr. Hazen. After his marriage David Baker settled on his own farm of 112 acres near the old homestead in Randolph township, close to the county line. He died, however, at a comparatively early age, the father of three children--Lavina, Andrew H. and David. Mrs. Baker afterward married John Turner, to which union was born one child, Rebecca, who married James Ross.

This was taken from the Centennial Portrait and Biographical Record of the City of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio, edited by Frank Conover and printed by A.W. Bowen & Co., 1897, pages 110-113.