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17. Julius Robert "Juder Bob" BAKER was born on 1 March 1774 in Lee County, Virginia.2 He died on 29 November 1859 at the age of 85 in Buffalo Creek, Owsley County, Kentucky.2

Have also seen his place of birth as Buncombe Co NC. He recorded his date of birth in his Journal, but no place.

A journal belonging to Robert "Juder Bob" Baker states in the preface, that Julius Bob was an officer in the Kentucky Cornstalk Militia, disbanded 1810. Robert Baker [presumably the same man] served as a Lt. in the 2nd Regt of William's Kentucky Volunteers in the War of 1812. Robert and Bowling Baker, were both paid for the services of their horse and saddles on the March to Canada where they ended up at the Battle of the Thames.

Julius Robert "Juder Bob" BAKER and Elizabeth HAMMONS were married about 1792.2 Elizabeth HAMMONS was born on 15 August 1775.2 She died in 1824 at the age of 49 in Clay County, Kentucky.2