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Elizabeth Avent
(12 Sep 1752 - 1844)
Her name sometimes spelled Avant. It is Avant on her gravestone
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has birth 12 Sep 1752 in Albermarle Par,Sussex,Virginia.
Elizabeth AVENT b: 12 SEP 1752 in Albermarle Par, Sussex,Virginia
Sponsored at christening by John and Mary Avent, and Elizabeth
Shelton.
Christening: April 08, 1753, Albemarle Parish, Sussex, Virginia
History of Lee Co, VA quotes her obit b. 2 Sep 1753. Religious
Herald, Jan. 21, 1847 and her father as John Avent.
Information from Davis and Allied Families page 624:
Biography of Elizabeth Avent Baker
Religious Herald, Jan. 21, 1847
This truly amiable pattern of piety of the undefiled religion of our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, for many years actual experience, was
born in Brunswick county, Virginia, on the 2nd of September, AD 1753.
Her father, John Avent emigrated in an early part of her life into
Chatham county, North Carolina. At some period of time after this She
was married to a man by the name of Andrew Baker, and some time after
their marriage they settled in Wilkes county, North Carolina, in the
part thereof which is called Ashe county. In the fall of 1775, she
joined the Baptist church in the Osborne's Settlement on New River. In
a short time after her joining the church, her husband also joined the
same church, and they were both baptized (as She thought) by William
Hammond.
As respects her husband, his life is too remarkable to be forgotten,
for sometime after his admission into the church, he became one of the
brightest ministers of the Gospel, in which he labored many years in
the cordial acceptance of many precious souls into the holy church. In
Wilkes county, North Carolina at St. Clair's Bottom Church, Washington
county Virginia's Fox's Creek Church, Grayson county Virginia where
they lived sixteen or twenty years; in the last of which he died in
the fall of A.D. 1815.
As an impartial testimony of the brilliant talents of this Apostle, I
will relate that I heard two lay-elders of the Presbyterian Church say
that they thought that they heard as great a sermons delivered by old
Father Baker as any other minister, and had it not been that they
could not have had admittance to his church upon Baptist principles,
they would have been members of his church.
The last year of his life he baptized two persons, one male and one
female. The man whom he baptized was James Gilbert, who is now on of
the most talented preachers laboring in Mulberry Gap Association of
the United Baptists. Thus our old father in the Gospel closed his
labors, and few months after which he yielded up the ghost, and his
remains now lie buried in the graveyard of Brother Robert Clarks, Sr.
on Wallings Creek, Lee county, Virginia, nearly eight miles southwest
of Jonesville.
After his death, his consort, who is the principal subject of this
narrative, lived in several churches, making her home most of the time
with her children, who were very kind to her in every respect in
administering the comforts which were necessary for her support,
though the many years of her affliction of bereavement, and among the
calamities that befall the human family. She had a inflammation of one
of her eyes which carried away the sight of it, and very much injured
the other. Indeed, so much so that in a few years after the death of
her husband, she was destitute of any eyesight at all. She patiently
endured all her afflictions, with a devout and holy fortitude, without
a murmuring word to the last of her existence.
She survived her husband over twenty-nine years; and I think that more
than twenty years of this time, she was deprived of all her eyesight.
Notwithstanding all this, she retained her reason and recollection in
an astonishing manner, for she never became the least childish or
fretful in her deportment. Cleanliness and decency she retained in her
mind to the last moments of her life.
About a week before her death, she and one of her sons, with whom she
made her home, were sitting by their fireside. In their conversation
she said that, if she could know that that was the last night she had
to live, She would feel like praising the Lord with every breath; but
professed a willingness to wait the appointed time of the Lord, and
also gave at different times the most satisfactory evidence of her
acceptance with the Lord.
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Birth: Sep. 12, 1752
Brunswick County
Virginia, USA
Death: 1844
Lee County
Virginia, USA
Place of death not certain.
Family links:
Spouse:
Andrew Baker (1749 - 1815)
Children:
Joseph Soloman Sanders 1770 Baker (1770 - 1847)*
Henry Baker (1774 - 1811)*
Mourning Dove Baker Calloway (1774 - 1835)*
Andrew B Baker (1777 - 1840)*
Joseph 1779 Baker (1779 - 1847)*
James 1782 Baker (1782 - 1840)*
John P 1784 Baker (1784 - 1855)*
Nancy 1787 Baker (1787 - 1856)*
Captain Elijah 1789 Baker (1789 - 1864)*
Martha Baker Davis (1791 - 1869)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Robert Clark Cemetery
Van
Lee County
Virginia, USA
Created by: Phillip Walker
Record added: Apr 10, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 50911845
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From GEDCOM by Denney Pugmire
Rafegood@prodigy.net
Joann Fairbourn lfairb@aol.com
has birth 12 Sep 1752 in Albermarle Par,Sussex,Virginia.
Elizabeth AVENT b: 12 SEP 1752 in Albermarle Par, Sussex,Virginia
Sponsored at christening by John and Mary Avent, and Elizabeth
Shelton.
Christening: April 08, 1753, Albemarle Parish, Sussex, Virginia
History of Lee Co, VA quotes her obit b. 2 Sep 1753. Religious
Herald, Jan. 21, 1847 and her father as John Avent.
Information from Davis and Allied Families page 624:
Biography of Elizabeth Avent Baker
Religious Herald, Jan. 21, 1847
This truly amiable pattern of piety of the undefiled religion of our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, for many years actual experience, was
born in Brunswick county, Virginia, on the 2nd of September, AD 1753.
Her father, John Avent emigrated in an early part of her life into
Chatham county, North Carolina. At some period of time after this She
was married to a man by the name of Andrew Baker, and some time after
their marriage they settled in Wilkes county, North Carolina, in the
part thereof which is called Ashe county. In the fall of 1775, she
joined the Baptist church in the Osborne's Settlement on New River. In
a short time after her joining the church, her husband also joined the
same church, and they were both baptized (as She thought) by William
Hammond.
As respects her husband, his life is too remarkable to be forgotten,
for sometime after his admission into the church, he became one of the
brightest ministers of the Gospel, in which he labored many years in
the cordial acceptance of many precious souls into the holy church. In
Wilkes county, North Carolina at St. Clair's Bottom Church, Washington
county Virginia's Fox's Creek Church, Grayson county Virginia where
they lived sixteen or twenty years; in the last of which he died in
the fall of A.D. 1815.
As an impartial testimony of the brilliant talents of this Apostle, I
will relate that I heard two lay-elders of the Presbyterian Church say
that they thought that they heard as great a sermons delivered by old
Father Baker as any other minister, and had it not been that they
could not have had admittance to his church upon Baptist principles,
they would have been members of his church.
The last year of his life he baptized two persons, one male and one
female. The man whom he baptized was James Gilbert, who is now on of
the most talented preachers laboring in Mulberry Gap Association of
the United Baptists. Thus our old father in the Gospel closed his
labors, and few months after which he yielded up the ghost, and his
remains now lie buried in the graveyard of Brother Robert Clarks, Sr.
on Wallings Creek, Lee county, Virginia, nearly eight miles southwest
of Jonesville.
After his death, his consort, who is the principal subject of this
narrative, lived in several churches, making her home most of the time
with her children, who were very kind to her in every respect in
administering the comforts which were necessary for her support,
though the many years of her affliction of bereavement, and among the
calamities that befall the human family. She had a inflammation of one
of her eyes which carried away the sight of it, and very much injured
the other. Indeed, so much so that in a few years after the death of
her husband, she was destitute of any eyesight at all. She patiently
endured all her afflictions, with a devout and holy fortitude, without
a murmuring word to the last of her existence.
She survived her husband over twenty-nine years; and I think that more
than twenty years of this time, she was deprived of all her eyesight.
Notwithstanding all this, she retained her reason and recollection in
an astonishing manner, for she never became the least childish or
fretful in her deportment. Cleanliness and decency she retained in her
mind to the last moments of her life.
About a week before her death, she and one of her sons, with whom she
made her home, were sitting by their fireside. In their conversation
she said that, if she could know that that was the last night she had
to live, She would feel like praising the Lord with every breath; but
professed a willingness to wait the appointed time of the Lord, and
also gave at different times the most satisfactory evidence of her
acceptance with the Lord.
=========================================
Elizabeth Avant Baker
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Birth: Sep. 12, 1752
Brunswick County
Virginia, USA
Death: 1844
Lee County
Virginia, USA
Place of death not certain.
Family links:
Spouse:
Andrew Baker (1749 - 1815)
Children:
Joseph Soloman Sanders 1770 Baker (1770 - 1847)*
Henry Baker (1774 - 1811)*
Mourning Dove Baker Calloway (1774 - 1835)*
Andrew B Baker (1777 - 1840)*
Joseph 1779 Baker (1779 - 1847)*
James 1782 Baker (1782 - 1840)*
John P 1784 Baker (1784 - 1855)*
Nancy 1787 Baker (1787 - 1856)*
Captain Elijah 1789 Baker (1789 - 1864)*
Martha Baker Davis (1791 - 1869)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Robert Clark Cemetery
Van
Lee County
Virginia, USA
Created by: Phillip Walker
Record added: Apr 10, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 50911845
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Events
| Birth | 12 Sep 1752 | Surry Co, Virginia, British America |  | ||
| Marriage | 1769 | Wilkes Co, North Carolina, British America - Andrew Baker Rev | |||
| Death | 1844 | Lee Co, Virginia, United States | |||
| Burial | Jonesville, Lee, Virginia, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Andrew Baker Rev (1749 - 1815) |
| Child | Solomon Baker (1770 - 1847) |
| Child | Henry "Harry" Baker (1774 - 1811) |
| Child | Andrew Baker (1777 - 1835) |
| Child | Joseph Baker (1779 - 1840) |
| Child | James Walter "Jimmy" Baker (1782 - 1840) |
| Child | John P. Baker (1784 - 1855) |
| Child | Nancy Baker (1787 - 1856) |
| Child | Elijah Baker (1789 - ) |
| Child | Martha "Patsey" Baker (1791 - 1869) |
| Father | Peter Avent (1720 - 1779) |
| Mother | Amy Massey (1716 - 1777) |
| Sibling | William Avent (1742 - ) |
| Sibling | Isham Avent (1743 - ) |
| Sibling | John Avent (1744 - ) |
| Sibling | Joseph Avent (1745 - 1798) |
| Sibling | Thomas Avent (1747 - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah Avent (1749 - ) |
| Sibling | Lucy Avent (1753 - ) |
| Sibling | Mourning Avent (1755 - ) |
| Sibling | Rebecca Avent (1757 - ) |
Notes
Birth
or 17 Oct 1752 in Surry, VABurial
Elizabeth Avant BakerBIRTH 12 Sep 1752Brunswick County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 1844 (aged 91–92)Lee County, Virginia, USA
BURIAL Robert Clark CemeteryVan, Lee County, Virginia, USA
MEMORIAL ID 50911845 · View Source
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Family Members
Spouse
Andrew Baker
1749–1815
Children
Solomon Baker
1770–1847
Henry Baker
1774–1811
Andrew Baker
1777–1840
Joseph Baker
1779–1847
James Walter Baker
1782–1840
John P Baker
1784–1855
Nancy Baker howell
1787–1856
Elijah Baker
1789 – unknown
Martha Baker Davis
1791–1869
Created by: Phillip Walker
Added: 10 Apr 2010
Find a Grave Memorial 50911845
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