Ninth Generation

111. Eliza Jane GABBARD⁷⁷ was born on 9 May 1839 in Clay County, Kentucky.³⁰ She died on 8 January 1924 at the age of 84 in Rocky Comfort, McDonald County, Missouri.⁷⁸ She was buried at Rocky Comfort Cemetery in Newton County, Missouri.

1870 Census. Travellers Rest Precinct, Owsley Co, KY, Hh 212
George M. Baker, age 28, b. VA
Jane 30, b. KY
James A. 8. Sarah A. 3. Joanna 2., all b. KY
Edward Gabbard, age 73, b. VA
Sarah Gabbard, age 72, b. KY

Have not been able to find the family in 1880.

1900 Census. Richwood Twp, McDonald Co, MO, Hh 120
George M. Baker, b. Aug 1842, age 57, married 38 years, farmer
Jane, wife, b. May 189, age 62, 8 children - 7 living
Harvie, son, b. Nov 1881, age 18, b. Arkansas

1910 Census. Richwood Twp, McDonald Co MO, Hh 31
George M. Baker, age 69, married for 59 years
Jane, wife, 70. Had 8 children - 7 are living

1920 Census. Richwood Twp, McDonald Co, MO, Hh 63
George M. Baker, age 78, b. VA, parents b. VA
Jane, wife, age 80, b. KY, parents b. KY
Henry C., son, age 44, divorced, b. KY, works in Timber

RosellaBrooks (\ Posted: 22 Aug 2001 9:29AM; Gabbard Message Board; Ancestry.com
(Elizabeth) Eliza Jane Gabbard was my grandmother several times removed. She was born May 5 or 9, 1839 in Jackson Co, Ky and died Jan 1924 and is buried near Flaming Creek Cem in Ark. Her parents were Edward and Sarah Gabbard. Know of the following children:
James A. 1/23/1861, Ky, 10/21/1939 , Madison Co. Ark, wife Sarah Emily Blevens.
Sarah A (Sally), 10/26/1864 Jackson Co, Ky. 3/17/1950 Madison Co. Ky. Husband, George C. Harrison.
Joanna, 5/16/1869, Green Hall, Ky. husband, Jacob Allen Burris.
William Matthew, 5/25/1871 Green Hall, Ky., 10/20/1950. wife, Nancy Davis.
Edward D. Thomas 9/27/1873 Green Hall, Ky., 4/1934. wife Ida Mae Creason
Henry Carter 8/18/1876 Franklin Co, Ky. 7/29/1965, Huntsville, Ark. wife Martha Jane Thomas
Note: two children seem to be unknown - Harvie born in Arkansas in 1881 in missing from the list and there was a child who died.

Eliza Jane GABBARD and George Matthew BAKER were married on 20 December 1860 in Jackson County, Kentucky.³³ George Matthew BAKER, son of Thomas BAKER and Joanna ALFORD, was born on 25 August 1841 in Virginia. He served in the military Civil War: Company A, 47th Kentucky Regiment in 1863. He died on 9 April 1921 at the age of 79 in Rocky Comfort, McDonald County, Missouri.⁷⁹

George said by some to be a gg grandson of John Renta Baker, but that is someone's imagination working overtime. He seems to be of a very different Baker family and the time factor simply doesn't work out.

Found on Ancestry.com
George Mathew Baker was from Jonesville, Lee County, VA. He grew up near Green Hall, in Jackson County, KY. He married before the Civil War started and had one son James Alfred Baker, who was born January 23, 1862. George went to Lexington, KY and enlisted in the Kentucky Volunteer Army,after 1863, where he served eighteen months in Company A, 47th Regiment under Captain Pennington. George had medical problems and was discharged 12-18-1864.
George continued to live in Traveler's Rest, Owsley Co., KY until 1879, At that time he and his wife Jane (Gabbard) Baker with their two daughters and four sons went to Arkansas where they settled southwest of St. Paul, or near Health and Bidville community in Madison and Crawford Counties. They had another son in 1880. He was born near Winslow, Arkansas.
In 1897 George and Jane moved to Powell, Mo then to Rocky Comfort in 1904. They are buried in Rocky Comfort, MO. (pg 180, The story of Stella and more - 1989)

Eliza Jane GABBARD and George Matthew BAKER had the following children: