Catharine BAKER

  General Notes:

1839 BIRTH (approximate) of Catharine Baker

1840 CENSUS

1850 CENSUS, Ohio, Richland County, Monroe Township ("Catherine," age 11, with parents)

1860 MARRIAGE of Catharine Baker and John Barr on January 1 in Richland County, Ohio

FOR THE READER: The census data below should be considered tentative. It is not verified that Catharine Baker is the Catharine Barr in census years 1860 through 1900.

1860 CENSUS, Ohio, Richland County, Monroe Township, Lucas ("John," is "Farmer") (wife "Catherine," age 20) (census taken June 12) (John's age is "25" in this census, inconsistent with subsequent census years)

1870 CENSUS, Indiana, Wayne County, Kosciusko Township, P. O. Warsaw ("John," age 38, "Farmer") (wife "Catherine," age 30, born in Ohio) (four children, names difficult to decipher, are in the household, but they are transcribed as "Linnie B.," age 11; "Barney N.," age 9, "Bura B.," age 5, and "Charles C.," age 3) ("Bura" should have been "Burr" -- see the 1880 census below)

1880 CENSUS, Indiana, Fulton County, Henry Township ("John," age 49, "Farmer") (wife "Catharine," age 40, born in Ohio, father born in Pennsylvania, mother born in Pennsylvania) (two children are in the household, "Burr B.," age 15, and "Chas. C.," age 13)

DEATH of husband, John Barr

1900 CENSUS, Indiana, Fulton County, Newcastle ("Catherine," widow, age 56, born "November, 1843 in Ohio," father born in Pennsylvania, mother born in Ohio) (Catherine's year of birth is not consistent with her ages in previous census years that place her birth about 1840) (In Catherine's household are children "Charles C.," age 26, "Timber Cutter," and "Minnie D.," age 22) (Married son "Burr B." appears at the top of the same census page)

Catharine married John BARR on January 1, 1860 in Richland County, Ohio. (John BARR was born about 1831 in Pennsylvania and died before 1900 in Indiana.)