Polly , 1758–…
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Marriage of a daughter
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Note: John Irons & Polly Baker — Marriage, Notation on Missing Record John Irons & Polly Baker — Marriage, Notation on Missing Record No marriage record has been located for John Irons and Polly Baker. An estimated marriage date of c. 1819 is inferred from the birth of their known first child, Elvira Eliza (m. James Rankin), calculated at c. 1820 per the 1823 Texas "census" and her own later census records. The absence of a record is consistent with the general poor survival of Arkansas Territory documents from this specific period, rather than evidence the marriage did not occur. Hempstead County was newly organized in December 1818; county-level marriage record-keeping across Arkansas generally begins around 1820, just after the inferred date of this marriage. The 1820 federal territorial census was lost entirely, and Hempstead County's own 1823 sheriff's census survives only as a total population count, with no household-level detail. No marriage record for this couple should therefore be expected to exist, independent of whether the marriage took place. |
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Note: The federal patent for Baker's original Bellevue survey (No. 2150) is issued in Missouri to 'Elisha Baker's representatives' — language already in use as early as 1826, when Recorder Theodore Hunt's office processed the claim referencing Certificate No. 1037 and a letter from the General Land Office. Taken together with the April 1821 deed, this places Baker's death in a window of roughly 1821–1826, most plausibly in Hempstead, Arkansas. |
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Author of last change: daveh |
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1750–1826
Birth: between 1750 and 1758
— Virginia or North Carolina Death: between 1821 and 1826 — Arkansas, USA |
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| Marriage | Marriage — about 1775 — |
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21 years
daughter
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2 years
daughter
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