Oliver
Baker’s great-great-grandmother Gross lived to be 101
years old. As a slave she was actually owned by her sister,
and therefore had much freedom.
She
witnessed the meteoric shower, known as ‘the night the
stars fell” in 1833.
His
great-grandmother Baker was also a slave and was well
treated by her master. She told of Indians coming to New
Market.
After
she gained her freedom she washed clothes for hands who
built the Burlington Bridge. She saved enough money to buy a
farm near New Market north of Monroe. The farm stayed in the
family for 90 years.
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