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Company F, Seventh Kentucky Infantry Regiment after his father’s death. 78 His compiled military service record indicated that he, too, fell ill during the summer of 1863; that he was a patient in the division hospital when his father died and may not have known of his father’s death; 79 that he was in the New Orleans Military Hospital on 26 September 1863; 80 that he returned to active duty in November 1863; 81 and that he was officially mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, on 5 October 1864. 82 Andrew Jackson Baker married Esther “Easter” Storm. 83 He was approved for a Union Civil War pension in 1877. 84 Census schedules indicate that he and Easter lived in Whitley County in 1870; Laurel County in 1880; Rockcastle County in 1890; Boyle County in 1900; and Madison County, Kentucky, in 1910. 85 He was enumerated on the special 1890 Veterans’ Schedule for Rockcastle County, Kentucky, in 1890. 86 Andrew and Easter Baker had eight children: Mary Jane Baker, William Thomas Baker, Pleasant A.J. Baker, Sarah D. “Sally” Baker, Ro Ann Baker, Omaline Baker, Ida L. Baker, and Richard S. Baker. 87 Andrew Jackson Baker died at Berea (Madison County), Kentucky, on 27 November 1917, but was buried in the Junction City Cemetery in Boyle County, Kentucky. 88 Easter survived him. She drew a Union widow’s pension, until her death, on 24 December 1922. 89 ENDNOTES 1 Thompson Baker entry, 1830 Knox Co., Ky., Tax Assessment Book, microfilm 008099; Department for Libraries & Archives (KDLA), Frankfort. 2 Bryce Baker entry, 1810 U.S. census, Knox Co., Ky., 79; Bryce Baker entries, 1800-1840 Knox Co., Ky., Tax Assessment Books; and 1841-1847 Knox Co., Ky., Tax Assessment Books, microfilm 008100, KDLA. 3 Knox Co., Ky., marriage bond, license, and certificate for Thompson Baker, found in Civil War widow’s pension file of Nancy Baker, certificate no. 39059, RG 15 (Washington: National Archives and Records Administration [NARA]); and Thompson Baker and Brice Baker entries, 1850 U.S. census, Whitley Co., Ky., 406-A, lines 4 and 12. 64 | Kentucky Ancestors 4 1840-1855 Whitley Co., Ky. Tax Assessment Books, microfilm 008276; and 1856-1863 Whitley Co., Ky., Tax Assessment Books, microfilm 008277, KDLA. 5 B. Baker vs. W. Baker, Knox Co., Ky., Circuit Court case file no. 36 (1824), KDLA. 6 William Sparks, Revolutionary War Pension file, no. R-9960. [Revolutionary War Pension files may be accessed via HeritageQuest online, www.heritagequestonline.com]; Report of the [Congressional] Committee of Claims, on the Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of Knox County, in the State of Kentucky, November 5, 1814 (Washington1814), pages [15]: 3-6; photocopy filed in Knox County history folder at Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort. 7 James Greenlee vs. Micajah Allen, & Mark Ammons, Bail of Joseph Baker, Knox Co., Ky., Circuit Court case file no. 7 (1808); KDLA. 8 Letter from Return J. Meigs, Agent of War, dated 15 Feb 1804, addressed “To Settlers on Yellow Creek on Cumberland Trace” (including Joseph Baker) found in Records of the Cherokee Indian Agency in Tennessee, 1801-1835, Roll 2, Correspondence and Miscellaneous Records, 1803-1804, RG M208, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Cherokee Agency (Washington: National Archives), Microcopy M208, Roll 2; unpaginated, roughly in chronological order. 9 Report of the [Congressional] Committee of Claims, on the Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of Knox County, in the State of Kentucky, November 5, 1814, pages [15]: 3-6. 10 Knox Co., Ky., Deed Book A: 183-84; and A. Buford vs. J. Baker, Knox Co., Ky., Circuit Court case file no. 19 (1817), KDLA. 11 “Marriage affidavit” in Civil War widows’ pension file of Nancy Baker, certificate no. 39059, RG 15 (Washington: National Archives); and Carol Hopper, Tri County Knox-Laurel-Whitley, Kentucky Early Marriages (Lily, Ky., 1987), 4. 12 Ibid. 13 1830-1839 Knox Co., Ky., Tax Assessment Books. 14 1830 U.S. census, Knox Co., Ky., 245. 15 Knox Co., Ky., Deed Book D: 391. 16 1830-1839 Knox Co., Ky., Tax Assessment Books. 17 Knox Co., Ky., Deed Book D: 407. 18 1839 Knox Co., Ky., Tax Assessment Book; and 1840 Whitley Co., Ky., Tax Assessment Book. 19 1840 Whitley Co., Ky., Tax Assessment Book. 20 Grant Book 35:296, Kentucky Land Office, Secretary of State, Frankfort, Ky. 21 1845-1863 Whitley Co., Ky., Tax Assessment Books. 22 1840 U.S. census, Whitley Co., Ky., 207; 1850 U.S.
census, Whitley Co., Ky., District 2, 406-A; and 1860 U.S. census, Whitley Co., Ky., 735. 23 1850 U.S. census, Whitley Co., Ky., District no. 2, 406-A; 1860 U.S. census, Whitley Co., Ky., 735; and Civil War widow’s pension file of Nancy Baker, certificate no. 39059. 24 George T. Baker, compiled military service record (private, Company F, 7 Kentucky Infantry), Compiled Military Service Record of Union Soldiers from Kentucky, micropublication M397 (Washington: National Archives), roll 209; and Andrew J. Baker, CMSR, roll 209. 25 Ibid. 26 Ibid. 27 Whitley Co., Ky., Will Book 3:78-79. 28 George T. Baker, CMSR-Kentucky, roll 209; and Andrew J. Baker, CMSR-Kentucky, roll 209. 29 Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, 4 volumes (New York & London, 1959), 3:1200. 30 Ibid. 31 Ibid. 32 Thomas Speed, The Union Regiments of Kentucky (Louisville: Courier-Journal Job Printing, 1897), 336. 33 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky (Frankfort, 1866), 1:768. 34 Speed, Union Regiments, 336-39. 35 Ibid., 339. 36 George T. Baker, CMSR-Kentucky, roll 209. 37 Dyer, Compendium of the War, 1200. 38 “Camp Wildcat” in CWSAC Battle Summaries, The American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) website, www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/tvii.htm (retrieved 13 May 2010). 39 John E. Kleber, ed., The Kentucky Encyclopedia (Lexington, 1992), 952. 40 Ibid., 1861 Battle of Camp Wildcat Website, www. wildcatreenactment.org (accessed 14 May 2010). 41 “Seventh Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, Union Kentucky Volunteers,” at Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, National Park Service Web site, www. itd.nps.gov/cwws (accessed 10 May 2010). 42 Speed, Union Regiments, 337. 43 Dyer, Compendium of War, 1200. 44 Ibid. 45 Speed, Union Regiments, 337. 46 Dyer, Compendium of War, 1200. 47 Speed, Union Regiments, 338; and Dyer, Compendium of War, 1200. 48 Ibid. 49 Dyer, Compendium of War, 1200. 50 Ibid. 51 Ibid. 52 Ibid., and “Chickasaw Bayou” in CWSAC Battle Summaries, The American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Web (accessed 13 May 2010). 53 Dyer, Compendium of War, 1200. 54 George T. Baker, CMSR…Union Soldiers…Kentucky, roll 209. 55 Ibid. 56 Ibid. 57 Ibid. The R. C. Wood hospital steamer, on which Baker died, transported sick soldiers up the Mississippi River to U.S. Army hospitals at Memphis and St. Louis. The boat had a colorful, but tragic history. The vessel was built at the Madison, Indiana, shipyards; it was initially christened the City of Louisiana. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas traveled on the craft to their seventh and last joint debate at Alton, Illinois, on 14 October 1858. The steamer was leased by the U.S. Sanitary Commission in 1862; it was refitted to accommodate a floating infirmary. The military bought the rig in 1863, and renamed it the R. C. Wood. The ship continued to serve as a hospital on the Mississippi River until the end of the war. The New York Times, Tuesday, 6 Oct. 1863; “Madison’s Civil War Steamers,” under “Age of Steam,” in River to Rail, The Rise and Fall of River and Rail (Madison, Ind., Madison-Jefferson County Public Library); website, http://rivertorail.mjcpl.org (accessed 3 Apr 2010); Chicago Tribune, Monday, 18 Oct. 1858; “Madison’s Civil War Steamers,” River to Rail. 58 Ibid. 59 Ibid. 60 Dyer, Compendium of War, 1200. 61 1862-1863 Whitley County, Kentucky, Tax Assessment Books. 62 Civil War widow’s pension file of Nancy Baker, certificate no. 39059. 63 Ibid. 64 WPA, Registration of Veterans’ Graves, Kentucky Counties, Mexican War-World War II, Whitley County veteran burials (Frankfort, 1982), pp.147-159; Kentucky Cemetery Records Project, Whitley County (Frankfort, 1979), (Vol. 1); and Charley M. Cornelius, Whitley County Cemeteries, Whitley County, Kentucky (Albuquerque, 1980), 3 volumes. 65 Roll of Honor, Names of Soldiers who died in defense of the American Union, interred in the National Cemeteries, U.S. Quartermaster’s Department; (1869; reprint, Baltimore, 1994), XX-XXI: 86, 118. 66 “Historical Information,” Memphis National Winter 2011 | 65
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