Middle Fork Baker History

The descendants of Rev. Andrew and Elizabeth Avent Baker who settled in the Middle Fork area on Richland Creek in Southeastern Kentucky

Menu

Skip to content
  • The Name
    • What’s in a Name?
    • Bakers in England
      • Baker Surname Map1
      • Baker Surname Map2
      • Baker Surname Map 3
    • Bakers Who Sailed to America in 1635
    • A Brief Narrative History of our Baker Family
  • DNA
    • Autosomal DNA Results
    • Our Origins in Britain/Ireland
      • Baker Origins by A-DNA Only
      • Genetic Migration Map
      • Irish, Britons, and Anglo-Saxons
    • The Baker y-DNA Study
  • Photos
    • Rev. Andrew’s Bible
    • Earlier Baker Photos
    • Later Baker Photos
  • Our Heritage
    • Family Ancestry
      • Person Index from GEDCOM file
      • Andrew Baker Esq Notes
      • Joseph Baker Notes
      • Surnames By Marriage In William Baker Tree
    • Settlement Map
    • Capt/Rev Andrew Baker
    • Descendants of Green Ward Baker
    • The Baker Gunsmiths?
    • The Israels
      • My Israel Family Tree
      • A Fascinating Historical Short Story
  • Middle Fork
    • 1810 – 1962
    • Middle Fork Maps
    • The Middle Fork Baker Book
    • Autobiography of Oddis Jackson Baker
    • Early Baker History, 1604-1840
    • Clay County, KY Bakers

Later Baker Photos

  • John Harvey & Ellen Malissa Israel Baker
  • John Harvey & Melissa Israel Baker with Rhoda, Ed, & baby
  • Willie & Edith Baker, circa 1926
  • Oddis Jackson Baker (l) & Glen Ray Baker (r)
  • Rhoda Baker Donaldson & husband Ben
  • John & Malissa Baker & family in front of old home
  • Chester, Ollie, & David
  • Baker cousins
  • cousins in fron of new John Baker home
  • John Harvey Baker & family, circa 1944
  • Green Edward Baker & daughter, Jean
  • John & Malissa at birthday party
  • John Harvey Baker's 1921 teaching contract
  • John Harvey Baker teaching at the old one room school house
  • John Harvey Baker family
  • Johnnie Benjamin Baker & wife, Rhoda
  • Willie & Edith Baker with kids & granddaughter, Judy (Charles' daughter)
  • the old one room school house
  • the new one room school house
  • Oddis Jackson Baker's farewell party
  • Johnny B & Imogene Baker Donaldson, 1947
  • Roscoe Daniel Baker & son, Billy Joe
  • Roscoe Daniel Baker & wife, Sally
  • Iva Jane Baker & son, Leslie
  • Walter Sherman Baker & wife, Thelma with son Pete & wife, Larue
  • Leland & Vonanda Baker with Lois Baker Nolan & daughter, Bethany
  • Dr Glen Baker Jr opens medical practice
  • first new Baker reunion
  • Pete & Wayne Baker with Lois Baker Nolan & husband Charles
  • wowslider
  • Baker reunion snapshots, circa 1985
jquery slideshow by WOWSlider.com v7.2m

Editor’s Updates!

  • • Not Brit after all? What?!
  • • New Bakers-in-England Maps!
  • • Now we have a family tree here!
  • • A new UK map for our Bakers
  • • Where Is The Rev’s Bible Now?

Search this website

Acknowledgements

My Aunt Lois Nolan (Lois Darleen Baker, daughter of Willie Josiah and Bessie Edith Baker) and husband Charles Nolan, both now deceased, spent many hours researching our Baker family history beginning in the early 1990s. Among the other information and images gathered and produced, they photographed the beautifully hand written list in Rev Andrew’s family Bible, which gives us his wife’s name and the names and births of all his children, except Martha, the youngest. I’m hoping that many of Lois’ collection of photos, letters, and legal documents will eventually appear on this website.
The late Oddis Jackson Baker (Lois’ older brother and my father) assembled and wrote much of the original personal and historical narrative text in this website. He used his own and his sister’s research, as well as his childhood memories of the Middle Fork area on Richland Creek in Southeastern Kentucky.

I’m Bill Baker (William Albert Baker), the oldest son of Oddis and Vivian Baker. I first created the original website in 2000 using my family’s research, and I am now perpetually updating and enlarging it as more research is done by me and scores of my online cousins.

If you have information you think belongs on this website or that might help us extend our known lineage further back in history, please email me here.

Copyright 2017, William A. Baker