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Soloman Baker

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Soloman Baker

Birth
Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA
Death
1847 (aged 76–77)
Harlan County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
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From Rootsweb:

Wife of Solomon Baker is Mourning Dove CALLOWAY
Birth: About 1774 in NC
Death: BEF 1840 in Harlan, KY

Mourning Dove was purportedly the daughter of Benjamin Calloway and Red Wing Calloway.

From Garland Lively [email protected]
Mourning Dove CALLOWAY Sex: F Name: Morning Dove CALLOWAY Birth: ABT.
1774 Death: BET. 1830 - 1840 in Kentucky
"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 named Nancy Ann Baker. Nancy Ann Baker married George Washington Herrell and they had a daughter named Margaret Elizabeth Herrell who was the mother of Delia Camelia Whitaker.
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Note: She is a full-blooded Cherokee. This is the reason that no more information has been found. Indian births and deaths were consideredbeneath the white folks.
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Article by descendant Joan Thompson:
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Solomon Baker, born 1770 son of Andrew Baker, married Mourning Dove, a Cherokee Indian. There had been a lot of discussiom about who Solomon's wife was. In all public records there has been no mention of Solomon's wife's name. The reason is during the time Solomon married Mourning Dove, Indians were not considered people, they were considered savages.
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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.
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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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From Rootsweb:

Wife of Solomon Baker is Mourning Dove CALLOWAY
Birth: About 1774 in NC
Death: BEF 1840 in Harlan, KY

Mourning Dove was purportedly the daughter of Benjamin Calloway and Red Wing Calloway.

From Garland Lively [email protected]
Mourning Dove CALLOWAY Sex: F Name: Morning Dove CALLOWAY Birth: ABT.
1774 Death: BET. 1830 - 1840 in Kentucky
"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 named Nancy Ann Baker. Nancy Ann Baker married George Washington Herrell and they had a daughter named Margaret Elizabeth Herrell who was the mother of Delia Camelia Whitaker.
===
Note: She is a full-blooded Cherokee. This is the reason that no more information has been found. Indian births and deaths were consideredbeneath 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 discussiom about who Solomon's wife was. In all public records there has been no mention of Solomon's wife's name. The reason is during the time Solomon married Mourning Dove, Indians were not considered people, they were considered savages.
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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.
===
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).
===
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.
===
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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