Baker Cemetery in Burkesville, Kentucky

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Coordinates: 36.86542, -85.42006
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This Baker Cemetery is located in Cumberland County, Kentucky, about 5 miles NNW of Burkesville. It lies north of Little Renox Creek Road, just west of Allen Creek Road, on a hill overlooking Little Renox Creek valley. The cemetery is about 500 feet off the road, near the top of the hill, in a small grove of trees.

There are three marked graves that have survived, but there is evidence of at least six other graves that once had headstones. There also appears to be a number of other graves here that were marked only by fieldstones. The whole area is very overgrown and difficult to navigate and investigate.

The land where the cemetery is located was originally settled, in 1806, by John Baker and his wife, Sally, of Chesterfield County, Virginia. John's brother, Obediah, settled his family next to them a couple of years later. In 1815, together they built the Sugar Grove Methodist Church there, just on the other side of Little Renox Creek. John was the first of the Bakers that settled in Cumberland County from Virginia. His daughter, Elizabeth Cobb Baker, is believed to be the first Baker baby born in Cumberland County. It is her husband's grave that has survived and is pictured. More members of this family are surely buried here in what was the family cemetery.