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a.k.a. Margaret Baker of Sullivan Township, Tioga County PA |
Margaret LEE Baker of Sullivan Township was married to Isaac BAKER
HANDWRITTEN WILL OF "MARGGARET" BAKER (She signed by "X")
Sullivan April th 21 AD 1849
16 yards of flannel Cloth & 10 fleeces of wooll to be appropriated for my Maria Bakers tomb stones and for her --- own as far as it will go The Desk I want Philander should have The best shawl I want Rebecca should have The rocking chair and one of the Calico Dresses and a piece of dark Calico I want Hannah and Lydia Should have to piece you a bed quilt
This being my wishes X
Marggaret Baker
Myron Rockwell
{Transcribed from the original handwritten copy
(of course, the will wasn't probated!) after being found among Eva L.
Garnsey Card's papers circa 1988 by Mary Card Yarnell}
The above photo is of the former location of the Baker burials in Sullivan Township. As late as the 1950s this knoll included many tombstones of the old Baker Burial Ground. The tombstones were bulldozed into the hedgerow and left in broken fragments. At the time of my visit in November 1998, all fragments which had been reported to be there in the hedgerow, had been removed except for a small piece of marble which had been the corner of a tombstone, no inscription remaining. This location is on the north side of Route 6 on the hill above Gray Valley. Margaret LEE, alias Margaret Baker of Sullivan, is no doubt buried in this knoll. The location of a fragment of the tombstone of her husband, Isaac Baker, is known to me, but I do not feel at liberty to divulge it publicly. The people who took it did so in the interest of preservation. Joyce M. Tice
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This October 2000 photo shows the start of a house and foundation dug
directly into the
Baker Family Burial Ground. No listing of this cemetery was ever made prior to its first destruction, to my knowledge. Township officials and probably the family building here, were unaware that a burial ground was being violated. I informed the land owners, and as of this writing in Spring 2004, they are building a garage directly over the burials. I had notified the township well in advance of the second construciton, so it is a mystery to me how they got a building permit issued for the second building started after the township was notified. |