THIRD GENERATION

23. Marilla Martin was born on 29 Sep 1799 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. She died in 1893.

She was married to William Davis Baker on 4 Nov 1823 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. William Davis Baker was born on 12 Sep 1800 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. He appeared on the census in 1830 in Macon County, Illinois. ⁽⁵¹⁾ He appeared on the census in 1840 in Macon County, Illinois.⁽⁵²⁾ He appeared on the census on 7 Sep 1850 in Macon District, Macon County, Illinois. ⁽⁵³⁾
From the History of Macon County, 1880, pp. 31-35

Warren D. Baker, a North Carolinian, a young man of 28, who had married Marilla Martin, in Tennessee, arrived in the autumn of this year, and settled in Long Creek township. He was an upright man, and all men spoke well of him. He was a member of the first grand jury of the county. He had five children, two of whom are ministers.

BAKER, William D.

WILLIAM D. BAKER was born in Lincoln County, North Carolina, on the 12th of September, 1800, and came to Macon County in the fall of 1828, and settled in what is now Long Creek township. Mr. Baker was a member of the first grand jury of the county; he married in Tennessee, Marrila Martin. Their children are Matilda L., wife of Andrew Dennis, Jas. T. Baker, Rev. Wm. P. Baker of Grayville in White County, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith and Rev. N. M. Baker. Mr Baker was one of the few men of whom in a long life no one can say ought against.

History of Macon County, Illinois, From its Organization to 1876.
By John W. Smith Esq. of the Macon County Bar.

Marilla Martin and William Davis Baker had the following children:

77 i. Matilda Lavena Baker was born in 1824 in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
78 ii. James Templeton Baker was born in 1826 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. He died in 1891.
79 iii. Mary Elizabeth Baker was born in 1831 in Macon County, Illinois.
80 iv. Robert Sidney Baker was born about 1833 in Macon County, Illinois. He died about 1834 in Macon County, Illinois.
81 v. William Pinckney Baker was born in 1835 in Macon County, Illinois.
82 vi. Nathan Martin Baker was born on 27 Oct 1837 in Long Creek Township, Macon County, Illinois.

BAKER, Nathan M.
The ancestry of the Baker family on the paternal side is Irish and Welsh, and on the maternal, Irish. Nathan Baker, the paternal grandfather, was a native of North Carolina. He removed to Tennessee in 1815, and remained there until his death, in Sept., 1824. He married Elizabeth Aston. She was also a native of the Carolinas. By this marriage there were eight children. William D. is the only one living. He was born in North Carlina, September 12th, 1800. He went with his father to Tennessee, and remained there until 1828, when, in the fall of that year, he emigrated to Illinois, and settled near Bethlehem Church. The next spring he removed to section 20 of Long Creek township, and there he has continued to reside until the present time. He and his brother-in-law, David Davis, were the only settlers in 1828, in what is now known as Long Creek township.

William D. Baker married Matilda Martin. The date of the marriage was Nov. 13th, 1823. She was born in South Carolina, Sept. 29th, 1799. Both she and her aged husband are still living where they settled over a half century ago. Mrs. Baker's father was a native of Pennsylvania, and moved to the Carolinas. His father was a soldier of the Revolution, and his grandfather a soldier in the old French war, and was taken captive by the Indians, and remained in captivity for several years. By the marriage of William D. and Marilla Baker, there have been six children, four boys and two girs--five of whom are living. Their names are, Matilda, wife of Andrew Dennis, James T., now a resident of Missouri, Mary E., widow of Rev. John R. Smith, William P., of Montgomery county, Illinois, and Nathan M.., the subject of this sketch. He is the youngest of the family, and was born in Long Creek township, October 22d, 1837. He has been reared, and yet lives on the place where he was born. In his youth he had remarkably good advantages for receiving an education, which he improved. Besides his education received in the public schools, he spent several years in the academy at Mt. Zion. In April, 1862, he was regularly ordained a minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and from that time to the present, except when prevented by sickness, has been in charge of a congregation. In the summer of 1862, he enlisted as a private in Co. "C," 116th Regt. Ill. vols., for three years. Upon the organization of the regiment he was promoted to the captaincy. He resigned the position in 1864, and returned to Long Creek township. On the 1st of September, 1864, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah E. Price. She was born in Butler county, Ohio. Her parents, John and Elizabeth Price, were natives of Rockingham county, Virginia. John Price came to Ohio in 1849. His wife, and mother of Mrs. Baker, removed from Ohio to Illinois in 1857, and settled in Macon county, Wheatland township, where she still resides. Mrs. Baker was born August 2d, 1841. There have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Baker five children, three of whom are living. Their names are, Florence R., born Aug. 3d, 1870, Mary E., born Aug 17th, 1874, Emma L., born January 11th, 1876. Mr. Baker is a respected member of the order of Free Masonry. He is a strong advocate of temperance, and belongs to an organization for the suppression of the liquor traffic. Politically, he is an advocate of republican principles, as promulgated in the platforms of that party. He, however, takes no further part in politics than to express his principles through the right of suffrage. As before stated, Mr. Baker and his family may be regarded as among the pioneers of Macon county.

History of Macon Co, Illinois, 1880 - p. 183