#joseph baker

[thatsprettylane]

If Ethan is “special”, then what the fuck is up with Joe Baker?

[merelygifted]

JOSEPH BAKER, HAND CARVED EAGLE RAVEN SUN MASK

http://www.liveauctionworld.com/JOSEPH-BAKER-HAND-CARVED-EAGLE-RAVEN-SUN-MASK_i22289197

[belfrybattt]

Joseph Baker

[teasertrailer]

Bodies - movie trailer: https://teaser-trailer.com/movie/bodies/

[coxefamily]

We finally have progress on one stubborn branch of the family tree, courtesy of distant cousin Dan Treadway (descendant of Annie Ware Winsor Allen), who was introduced by Peter Pruyn. Through an alternate spelling of her last name, he was able to find a record for Sarah W. Bayley that allowed me to finally find out who her father was!

For those who don't know, I inherited a silver cup from my grandmother (attached) that was inscribed on one side, "To Edith Winsor, from her great-grandmother, Sarah W. Bayley," then on the other side, it's inscribed to Sarah "from her father, 1850." But I never knew the name of her father or any more information about this elusive branch of the family. But thanks to Dan, we now have a name! He managed to find her marriage record, with her last name misspelled Bailey, from Boston in 1862, which identifies her not only as the wife of Joseph E. Baker, who identifies himself as an "artist" born in Bangor, Maine, but also as the daughter of Benjamin F. and Caroline A. Bayley, born in Boston. This info led to confirmation on Massachusetts birth records as well, with gave her full name as Sarah Welch Bayley. 

But this is strange: When I checked the Boston census for 1860 and found their family, I find her listed, age 19, along with her father, age 44, a "Deputy Sheriff" with $20,000 in real estate and $6,000 in personal property (He's also listed on an 1856 Boston roster of people taxed for having $6,000 or more in real estate, for which he was taxed $48, and $2,000 of “personal” wealth, for which he was taxed $16), two "mulatto" servants, Mary A. Van, age 35, and Victoria A. King, age 10, but no wife (Caroline) listed -- instead, there's a second Sarah Bayley listed, but with the middle initial C. and a age of 28. The name could have been a transcription mistake by the person taking the census, but as it's highly unlikely that her mother gave birth to her at age 9, there are only a couple of possibilities:

1. Caroline had died (or divorced, although that was rare then), and Benjamin remarried a woman named Sarah

2. Caroline had died and Sarah W. Bayley had a sister with the same first name (outside of George Foreman's family, that's exceptionally rare unless the first child with that name dies)

3. Caroline had died and Benjamin had a much younger sister named Sarah who moved in with them to help raise her niece (not uncommon in that day and age)

I've included some screen grabs from a few documents if anyone else wants to have a look: the marriage record, a couple versions of the birth records, and the census with a zoom in on the weirdness in question. Hopefully I'll have more info on this branch soon!

[theskibbereeneagle]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYXZIm06eUg)Our old friend “Bouncer” Gerard Cowan

[robotcosmonaut]

The Witch No. 1, 1892

[travisellisor]

Robin by Marcus To and Joseph Baker