James Madison Baker (1835 - abt. 1900)

Born Aug 1835 in Knox (Whitley) County, KY

Husband of Martha A (Butcher) Baker — married about 1856 in Whitley, Kentucky

Descendants

Died about 1900 at about age 64 in Adair County, KY

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Biography

James was born in 1835. James Baker ... He passed away about 1900. ^[1]

There is a marriage record for James M Baker and Martha Butcher on Family search which lacks a photo or exact date. It does have the location^[2]

The couple appear on the 1860 Fed Census with the first two children and on the 1870 Fed Census with 6 children.^[3][4]

There is a James M Baker that applied for a Civil War Union army pension^[5][6][7]

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1. ↑ Entered by Rick Sneed, May 21, 2012
2. ↑ "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4HH-R2T : 11 February 2018), James M. Baker and Martha A. Butcher, 1856; citing Whitley,Kentucky, reference ; FHL microfilm 0216843 IT 1.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZBH-KL1 : 14 December 2017), James Baker, 1860.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXWN-RBW : 12 April 2016), James M Baker, Kentucky, United States; citing p. 2, family 10, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,979.
5. ↑ "United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4JQ-FTL : 24 March 2016), James M. Baker, 1922.
6. ↑ "United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4Y6-G6D : 24 March 2016), James M. Baker, 1883.
7. ↑ "Kentucky Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8F1-MPW : 4 December 2014), James M Baker, 1863; from "Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky," Fold3.com; citing military unit Fourteenth Cavalry, A-Cl, NARA microfilm publication M397, roll 128, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.