Mourning Dove (Calloway) Baker (abt. 1770 - abt. 1840)

Born about 1770 in North Carolina [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Solomon Baker — married 1800 in Ashe, NC

Descendants

Died about 1840 at about age 70 in Harlan, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Mourning Dove Calloway was born about 1770 in North Carolina. Mourning Dove was, according to family folklore, at least part Native American. She died in Kentucky in 1840.^[1]

Notes

Per Barbara Baker Mead- Mourning Dove is my 4th great-grandmother. My DNA results show I have absolutely NO Native American DNA. Other than family lore there is no evidence that Solomon's wife was an Indian.

=== Per Gale Wallen. For Mourning Dove Callaway - (no record found to prove the name or a connection to the Callaway family). This is from a family story and there is no record to support this.

=== From Garland Lively garlandliv[at]aol.com:

• Name: Mourning Dove CALLOWAY Birth: Abt 1774 Death: BET. 1830 - 1840 in Kentucky
• Note: My grandfather Ulysses Grant Wilson. passed down the family heritage to my mother. He was told by his grandmother Mary Ann Hurst that her mother, Dove was full blooded Indian. My grandfather related that his grandmother, Mary Ann Hurst, said that Dove was Blackfoot. Even though the main geographical location of the Blackfoot is present day Montana, there is a tribe located in North Carolina and Virginia that are known as the "other Blackfoot tribe. " email from Llewellyn Jones.

=== Delia Camelia Whitaker relayed to Velma Jean Hollars that her great grandmother was an Indian Princess, and I looked at all of her great grandmothers with out finding a good candidate. I found one of her great great grandmothers named Mourning Dove, She was born in 1774, (probably in North Carolina, traditional homeland of the Cherokee tribe). She married Solomon Baker who was born in Ashe County North Carolina 13 April 1770. They were married about 1795, and had a son named Andrew Jackson Baker who married Nancy Noble who had a daughter Nancy Ann Baker. Nancy Ann Baker married George Washington Herrel and they had a daughter named Margaret Elizabeth Herrell who was the mother of Delia Camelia Whitaker

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She is a full-blooded Cherokee. This is the reason that no more information has been found. Indian births and deaths were considered beneath the white folks.

Article by descendant Joan Thompson: Solomon Baker, born 1770 son of Andrew Baker, married Mourning Dove, a Cherokee Indian. There had been a lot of discussion about who Solomon's wife was. In all public records there has been no mention of wife's name. The reason is during the time Solomon married Mourning Dove, Indians were not considered people, they were considered savages.

=== Mourning Dove was as beautiful a woman as ever walked and intelligent. There wasn't anything she didn't know how to do. She could weave a basket so tight as to carry water in and not a drop would leak out. She could prepare the deer meat to eat. She was a slender woman, her black hair hung to her waist. She was always smiling, even in her eyes. She and Solomon loved each other very much.

=== When Mourning Dove wanted to marry Solomon, she had to have a last name. There was a U. S. Marshal whose last name was Calloway who was a friend of the Cherokee. Mourning Dove took his last name. When Solomon and Mourning Dove's first child, Johanna Baker, born 1804 married Squire Hurst born 1790, had her first child she named him Marshall Calloway Hurst (born 1826).

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All of Solomon Baker and Mourning Dove's children moved away from the mountains of KY. with the exception of Johanna-who married Squire Hurst, and her brother John who taught school.

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This is a quote from Lurinda Robbins Thompson, granddaughter of Mourning Dove. Lurinda Robbins Thompson was born 1893 and died 1991. Her mother was Martha Wilson Robbins. Her mother was Mary Hurst Wilson Cook. Her mother was Johanna Baker Hurst and her mother was Mourning Dove.

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Father:Benjamin Calloway b: 1722. Mother: Red Wing Calloway.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 05 October 2018), memorial page for Mourning Dove Calloway Baker (1770–1840), Find A Grave: Memorial #117522779; Maintained by GardenGreenGirl (contributor 47937273) Non-Cemetery Burial. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117522779/mourning-dove-baker