Person talk:Hepzibah Baker (1)

death date [19 December 2014]

I removed the death date of 1823 on the general principle that 1) One World Tree is an anti-source, wrong more than it is right, and 2) death date for a women without a documented marriage to show what name she died with indicates information from copied with no regard for preserving the chain of proof, so of no value to collaboration, and 3) 1823 is not a precise date which often indicates about or after or before was dropped meaning one could spend hours searching for this and never find it because it is based on an external event of a different kind.

It may be in cleaning up this family the source can be rediscovered, no thanks to the original poster, in which cause I will put this back. But initial searching of untrusted sources found her married to a Jonas Gates, no marriage record known, and the basis for asserting this marriage not given. Nothing in the trustworthy places. Obviously not important to the poster, and my preference is for provable facts. --Jrich 16:15, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Source:Calnek, W. A. History of the County of Annapolis, Including Old Port Royal and Acadia, p. 514, says "JONAS GATES, son of Captain Oldham, born probably at Spencer, Mass., 1746, married Hepzibah Baker, died about 1823." So yes, the "about" was dropped, and the death date of the husband appears to have been applied to the wife. Why is it that One World Tree has such a bad reputation? --Jrich 16:49, 19 December 2014 (UTC)