James Henderson Baker and Permalia Rice

Great x 4 grandparents

parents of Mary Rachel Baker Harvey

All 9 children were born in Marrion County, West Virginia, and the family later came to Utah. When?

The following is the Last Will and Testament of John Nicolas Baker Sr., your Great x8 Grandpa.

• Baker, John Nicholas Sr.
• Baker, John Nicolas Jr.
• Baker, John Nicolas III, born 5 April 1770
• Baker, Noah, born 12 April 1816
• Baker, James Henderson, born 5 Sept. 1847
• Baker, Mary Rachel, born 22 April 1878
• Harvey, Melva May, born 6 June 1897

The will of John Nicolas Baker, found in the court records, Frederick County, Winchester, Virginia, Will book #3, beginning page 109-115. Year 1762.
Copied as written, 23 October 1957 by Robert H Baker
          As it was please God and was his will that I, John Baker of Frederick County did live in this world to a considerable old age and it hath also please Him to take from me to the Eternity two wives to whom I was marry’d and as it hath pleased God that I have got my perfect mind and memory to this present time although I am in great weakness in my body and in a lonely…Sickness and whereas it is the duty of every Christian who is a father of a family to bring them up in the fear of God and that they may get their living in this World by the helping of God and knowing that it is appointed to die do make and ordain this last Will and Testament.
          First, I recommend my soul to God and my body to the earth, not doubting at the day of Resurrection I shall receive, I shall receive the same again and as it hath please God to give me a blessing of some worldly estate.  It is my will and desire that it may be divided and disposed of in the following manner and form among my heirs and that in all peace and quietness. “And, I do give unto my three sons, sons born of my 2^nd wife, Melchior Baker, John Nicolas Jr., Philip and to their heirs assigns my plantation and the land belonging to the same which according to the deed four hundred acreas (accept a small piece of about 10 or 12 acres which I have given son Hieronymus Bakerand his heirs assigns forever for which he paid me 18 pounds which land and plantation is to be divided into three parts according as I did mark the divisions.          First, I give unto my son Melchoir Baker and to his eirs and assings forever that part of my plantation and land where my dwelling house, barn and stables stands on with the lower and upper field and orchards according as it is laid and marked off.  Secondly, I give unto my son John Nicolas Baker and to his heirs and assings forever, that part of plantation and land which lies above the lands I have given unto Melchoir Baker where the new field is on joining the land of Philip Peter Baker according as it is mark’d and laid off.  I give him also the use of the great spring let in fall in which part she will.          Thirdly, I give unto my son Melchoir Baker and to his heirs and assigns forever the remaining part the said land which is lying toward the North Mountain, according as it is laid and marked off joining the land of Blackburns, also I give to him the entry of the land joining the said land and the afore said land and plantation divided, shall every part there of be valued and appraised by my Executers  and such other man as they shall think proper and as soon as possible after my death.  If it is not done in my lifetime and out of the said and out of the said valuation all of my just debts be paid, and satisfied and the remainder of the said valuation money to be equally divided between my sons and daughters by my second wife.  And my three sons Melchoir, John Nicolas and Philip shall pay their sisters their part in three payments after my death. Each of them to be made the seventhday of November will be next ensueing after my death yearly until the last of the three payments made.          Further, it is my will the horses, mares, cattle and sheep, also other goods are to be sold and the money arising of them to be divided equally among my sons and daughters born of me by my second wife, except to my youngest daughter Katherine, I do give five pounds current money of Virginia, besides her equal share.  I also give to my said daughter Katherine during her hatural life the liberty to live in the dwelling house where lately Hinry March did live, also to have use of the small piece of ground laid off for the said house I have given to Melchoir Baker, but if my said daughter marry’s then she has lost her right to the said house and land it falls to my son Melchoir again, as it also does after her death if she doesn’t marry.          I have ordained and named my friends, Vatertine Wandler, Augustin Wardte, Christopher Wandle and my oldest sons Philip Peter, Herionymus Baker for my (only and sole) Executers of this, my lst will and testament.          B-and wheras I have given unto my children born to my first wife, their legacy part in Germany and part in this country while they have testified to me, the four witnesses present, he was Henry Pifer, Philip Mayer, that they are duly satisfied and have also, acknowledge by these present that they have quitted all claims and demands of both my legal and personal estate and that the same shall all belong to the children born of my second wife. In whitness therof they have set here unto their own hands this 10 day of October 1762 (signed by) Philip Peter Baker, Heironymus Baker, Anthony Baker, MB.          Further, I have taken notice of sundrys I have forgot in this, my last will and testament, (Vin) of my daughter Katherine goes to live in the afore said house, then it is my will, and I do ordain that my son Melchoir to winter one cow for her; my son John Nicholas one heifer, during her life if she denotes money and that without any pay for her, and.          Whereas my daughters Ann Margaret and Katherine Elizabeth hath been very tender to me in my old age and late sickness, I therefore give unto Ann Margaret my close (clothes?)  press, and one cow of which she is to have her choice, besides her equal share, and to Katherine Elizabeth, I do give my Cest (chest?) and one cow of which she is to have her choice, besided her equal part, and to my youngest daughter Katherine I do give my flquer cest (flower? Flour? Chest?) and the long small cest (chest?) and the red white spotter heifer, which shall be raised on my said plantation.          Further, it is my will that my children born of my second wife with their sister Aptoon shall all have an equal share of all the winter grain that is sowed on my said plantation, and it is also my will that all my children that are not marry’d may live together on my said plantation til my daughters marry, if they can live in peace and quietness and shall all have share of what they make on the said plantation.  Further, I have valued the place of my afore said three sons, their lands and plantation and it is posted and marked out as before mention in this, my last will and testament. Melchoir Baker land and part of the plantaion, buildings have valued Sixty pounds. John Nocholas Baker part of the land and plantaion I have valued for Forty pounds and Philips Baker’s land valued for twenty –five pounds, did all for current money of Virginia.          When two sons Melchoir and John Nicolas have both clear land of my plantation and my son Philip not.  Therefore, it is my will that they both help my son Philip to clear eight acres of land without charging him anything for the same, to conclude. I wish all my children may live in God and in peace. They may expect His blessing.                             John Nicholas Baker, Your Father

Ellen Wooten Harvey Loveridge

    (This information from Selma Hazel Harvey and Myrtle Harvey Service)    

     Ellen Wooten was born July 1st 1850 to William Wooten and Ruth Smuin in Summerless, Buckinghamshire, England.  As a young girl she became converted to Mormonism and had a desire to gather with the Saints in Zion.  She was encouraged by her mother's sister, Hannah Smuin Harvey and her husband Daniel Harvey, who according to the book "O=Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah" came to Utah Oct. 13th 1863 with the Rosel Hyde Company. They settled Kaysville, Utah.
     Ellen and her sister Emma sailed from Liverpool, England in the company of returning missionaries   Ellen's obituary in the Deseret News in 1925 states that she came on the first steamship that had brought Mormon Saints across the Atlantic Ocean.  A search of the list of ships printed in the book "Our Pioneer Heritage, volume 12" we find that the Minnesota was the first steamship which had been chartered by Mormon men in charge of ocean immigration in 1868,
     Elder John Perry was in charge of the 534 saints on board.  The Minnesota left Liverpool, England on June 30th and arrived in New York City July 12th.  The immigrants crossed the United States by railroad car to Laramie, City, Wyoming arriving July 22, which at this time was the end of the line.  They were met by church teams who brought them on to Utah.
     To determine which company Ellen traveled with, page 5 Vol. 12, we note the last company to leave Laramie was composed of 272 souls and 39 wagons.  Captain William S. Seeley was in charge. They left Laramie August 1st. Four deaths occurred on this trip.
     Ellen went to live with her Aunt Hannah and Emma went to live with another family member.  When Ellen arrived at her aunts home in Kaysville, polygamy was in full swing.  Daniel Harvey had not yet taken a plural wife. We do not know the circumstances that led to Ellen's marriage to her Uncle Daniel, but they were wed in the Salt Lake Endowment House Dec. 17, 1868. Ellen was 18 and Daniel was 30.
     Ellen and Daniel had one son, George Wooten Harvey, who was born Jan 8, 1870.
     Life was hard.  The Harvey family had Mulberry trees on their property and they raised silkworms. Being the 2nd wife had it's disadvantages. The United States Marshalls came trying to catch Mormon men living in polygamy. Daniel tried to keep out of sight, but he was caught and sent to prison for co-habitation.  He served six months in the Penitentiary in 1887-1888, and there he contracted consumption.

     George was 18 and he and his mother left Kaysville and moved to Cedar Fort, UT where George was employed on the new railway being built to Toplift and Mercur. From then on George cared for his mother.  Ellen always worked hard to help sustain them.
     They moved to Lehi where George became engaged to a young girl in the community. She died shortly before they were married. After a time he met Mary Rachel Baker, the daughter of James and Permelia Rice Baker. George was 28 and Mary was 18 when they were married in Provo, Utah, Oct. 26, 1896.
     Daniel Harvey became steadily ill with consumption (tuberculosis) and his first family put him into a rest home.  Ellen didn't agree with this so she and George brought him to their home in Lehi where they cared for him until he died Sept. 15, 1899. The family took him back to Kaysville for burial.
     Ellen met and married William Alexander Loveridge, a widower whose family had all grown up and gone.   They lived in William's adobe home on 1st south in Lehi, and George was given the lot on the north where he and Mary built a nice frame house.  William and Ellen had four years of happiness before he died.

     Ellen was very possessive of George. She had leaned on him so long, and George, realizing the hardships she had been through, catered to her wishes.  After Mr. Loveridge died, George would go next door every singe night and stay until she went to bed at 9 o'clock.  This was quite a trial to Mary because she needed him at home.

     From the history written by grand-daughter Myrtle, "Grandmother seemed to resent my mother and us ten children and the part we played in Dad's life. Mother was such a kind tender person. She was hurt many times by grandma's blunt remarks and actions. Mother's health was not too good at times, she had a bad heart condition.  We older children were so frightened when she would have an attack, but she got little consideration and sympathy from grandmother, who ever tried to turn us children against our own mother."
     Ellen had a nice grape arbor and made her own wine which she always had a small glass with cookies at her evening meal.
     Ellen was never idle.  When not busy with house and garden work she would crochet.  She crocheted a bedspread and curtains for her windows. She always made her own clothes, even her garments, sewing everything by hand.  Her everyday dresses were long, with long sleeves and a high neck in a sort of grey color. She always wore a waist form apron.  Her "best" dress has a white collar and broach.  For cool weather she wore a black velvet cape with braid and beads.  This came to her waist. She wore a little black bonnet- hat when she went out.
     In her later years she didn't attend church because some presiding authority had offended her along the way.

     Ellen enjoyed good health which enabled her to raise flower and vegetable gardens right up to the end.  In the spring she always spaded her garden herself. Her rows were straight and the seeds which she had saved herself were planted "just so" to ensure the best yield of vegetables. The irrigation was carefully distributed throughout the row.
     Spring was early in 1925. She was working in her garden on a Tuesday morning when she complained of a pain in her side. She didn't take it seriously. Wednesday in became more intense and a doctor was called.  She had pnemonia and died Friday morning at the age of 74.
     She was a resident of Lehi for 30 years.  Funeral services were held in the Lehi First Ward Chapel, April 12, 1925.  She was laid to rest in the Lehi Cemetery.