Born about in Ohio Territory
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Bolling Baker
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died about
at about age 44
in Logan, Logan, West Virginia, United States [uncertain]
[uncertain]
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Biography
According to the West Virginia Encyclopedia (online), Aracoma was a legendary (i.e. not real) person. The entry says, "George W. L. Bickley’s 1852 History of the Settlement and Indian Wars of Tazewell County, Virginia includes an early printed version of the legend of Aracoma. It is likely that this story, later used by Henry Clay Ragland in his History of Logan County, was embellished by the poet Thomas Dunn English in the 1850s."[1]
This person's fictional existence and relationships were included (as if factual) in Don Greene's book, Shawnee Heritage.
There is no historical documentation of this person's existence or relationships.
Research Notes
Lacking evidence of her relationships, the following have been detached from this profile:
- Father: Chief Hokolesqua Cornstalk
- Mother: Ounaconoa Muskrat Shawnee
- Siblings:
Per the legend and/or Don Greene's fictional account of her, Aracoma married Bolling Kikpelathy Baker 1725–1812 and had the following children:
- Little Black Bear Baker 1761–1776
- Snow Lily Baker 1763–1776
- Running Deer Baker 1765–1776
- Laughing Water Baker 1767–1776
- Blue Feather Baker 1769–1776
- Princess Raindrop Baker 1771–1776
Sources
See also:
- Find A Grave: Memorial #88954233 - repeats the legend; is inaccurately connected to parents, siblings and a spouse
- Sheila Jean Adkins Metcalfe, Chief Cornstalk, Shawnee Lineage - unsourced family tree of Chief Cornstalk; unreliable.
- Princess Aracoma Memorial describes her and her relationship as a "romantic legend."
- Aracoma, Boling Baker stories remain local legends, Wyoming County Report, 23 Nov 2015, reprinted excerpt from Paul Ray Blankenship, From Cabins To Coal Mines, 1799-1999, Volume I. This repeats the legend and offers no reliable evidence of her existence.
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Rejected matches › Bluesky Cornstalk (abt.1745-abt.1775)
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Categories: Shawnee Heritage Fraud | Uncertain Existence | Native American Adjunct
A 20 Sep 1808 marriage record for Boling Baker and Betsey Hunter
1810 US Census- Clay, Kentucky
A 20 Mar 1795 marriage bond of Bolen Baker and Mary Rogers
A Revolutionary War Pension for Bowling Baker where payments end in March 1835
My first initial notation on the above records is that they do not belong to the Boling Baker who was with Aracoma because of how quickly he would have been drafted in the Rev. War after the death of Aracoma in 1780. I'd really need to look at dates because it may be possible, Boling was apparently a deserter from the British Army so that would give him a reason to fight them and then the death of his wife would also make him want to fight them. Dates and places would need to line up though. The village where Aracoma and Boiling lived would be in present day Logan County, West Virginia where the Logan High School is currently located on the island (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Logan+High+School/@37.851859,-81.9976904,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x884f71cece4b4aa7:0xcfd1ebb88f51f09c!8m2!3d37.8518548!4d-81.9955017).
Anyway, these are just notes to be used later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territory
edited by Kathie (Parks) Forbes
The Ancestry tree referenced- link is dead Find a Grave source- no sources shown on the page, no tombstone shown Marion County, WV link is a story on Chief Cornstalk (who was a real person) but does not list Aracoma or Mary as a daughter Adkins Metcalf Family Blog- this blog talks about the Shawanee Book that serious researchers, including Wikitree, have found fault with. This would be the only place that even mentions a daughter Mary (Aracoma) for the Chief.
I am adding the unsourced template to this page since none of the "sources" shown are actually sources to prove that she existed.
edited by Jillaine Smith
But this profile is a conflation with Aracoma and the Mary Bluesky Cornstalk that apparently married Parker. My suggestion would be that we should merge this one with Cornstalk-12 and make them Aracoma, daughter of Cornstalk who married Boiling Baker. Cornstalk-13 and 50 could be merged together to be Mary Bluesky Cornstalk, the wife of Parker with the proof being the strong oral family tradition claiming such. I've recently reached out to family members to record the oral tradition so I can use it as historical proof of the relationship since no documentation exits.
As of this weekend there are now two conflicting DNA tests results, one that says Parker's daughter Charity had European ancestry (results are private and not available for review) and a new one that suggests that the same modern day descendant that was used in the first test, actually does have Native American DNA in addition to the European DNA. (Results were made public on the Adkins Family History Group Facebook page). At the very least this should be sufficient to keep a profile for a Mary Bluesky Cornstalk and keep her connected as his wife and to place research notes on the associated profiles to explain the ongoing research.
The Virginia Historical Society records his death as 27 Sep 1836 (could possibly be a son or other relative like a nephew? Some Adkins, even in this time period have lived to a very old age so it could be possible to be the same one)
On the bank of Horsepen Creek a marker indicates the site where Bolling Baker, the renegade horse thief is said to have concealed horses stolen from white settlers.
The Town of Logan, West Virginia was originally incorporated in 1852 as Aracoma and changed to Logan in 1907.
edited by Pattie (Breed) Plummer-Everett