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View Tree for Elizabeth AvantElizabeth Avant (b. 12 October 1752, d. 1844)

Elizabeth Avant (daughter of Peter Avant and Amy Massie)2 was born 12 October 1752 in Grayson, VA2, and died 1844 in Lee Co, VA3. She married Rev.Andrew Baker, Jr. on 1769 in Lee County, VA3, son of Andrew Baker and Mary Mollie Bowling.

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Information from Davis and Allied Families page 624:
Biography of Elizabeth Avent Baker
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 on 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 Chruch, 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 Chruch 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 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. Religious Herald, Jan. 21, 1847
Family of Elizabeth Avant. The will of Peter Avent recorded in Northampton County, North Carolina, Book I, p. 216, proved September Court 1779, shows Elizabeth Baker daughter of Peter Avent. Peter m. 1st Any Massie; Ch: William, Isham, Joseph, Thomas, Sarah, Elizabeth (Baker), Lucy (Truelove), Rebecca, Mourning (dau.), Peter m. 2nd. Mary Tomlinson. No CH.
(I have not found, where Elizabeth Avant Baker is buried )
(Have heard some were talking about, getting a fund raised for the restoration
of Rev. Andrew Baker's grave and grave site)
Information provided by Dorothy Alexander, from Hancock County, Tennessee Historical Book
Andrew baker was a Baptist preacher in Virginia, he was a great usefulness but a little eccentric habits. For instance, he would consistently walk and would never ride to the worship on Sundays, in "imitation" of Christ and His apostles. On any day of the week he felt at liberty to ride. So the story goes, that the venerable old preacher was seen riding on a fine horse and approaching a crowd of worldlings. One of the crowd, a smart fellow, who had just the day before been elected Esquire, said to the others: "Now, let's have some fun out of the old man." and so he accosted the preacher: Well, Mr. Baker, you seem to be prouder than your Master: I believe He never rode on as fine an animal as you are on." "No", was the quick retort, "they have made 'squires of the asses, leaving me nothing in that line to ride." The tables were turned and the joke was on the other fellow.

A book on the AVANTS (AVENTS) and their ancestors has been written by Mamie Lee Avent Parker and Claude Hunter Moore. "The AVENTS and Their Kin of Avent Perry".[rbbaker71527.FTW]


A book on the AVANTS (AVENTS) and their ancestors has been written by Mamie Lee Avent Parker and Claude Hunter Moore. "The AVENTS and Their Kin of Avent Perry".[Baker.FTW]

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NOTES ON ANDREW BAKER=Research by Mrs. H. L. Brockman Told us on Aug. 25, 1938 by cousin
Newt Click and Cousin Ellen Click, near Sneedville, TN.:

Elizabeth Avant (or Avent) was of French Huguenot descent, from an aristocratic family, and
when she married our great-great grandfather, Rev. Andrew Baker, her people disinherited her
and told her never to return home; she said that she never would until they sent for them
both. After many years, the Avants sent for Elizabeth and her husband to come and see them in
their old age. Rev. Baker told his wife if she would not cry when she went home that he would
send to a big seaport town (Wilmington?) and buy for her the nicest dress they could find.
She promised and got the dress, but when she came in sight of the old home of her parents
she burst into tears.


Family of Elizabeth Avant. The will of Peter Avent recorded in Northampton County, North Carolina, Book I, p. 216, proved September Court 1779, shows Elizabeth Baker daughter of Peter Avent. Peter m. 1st Any Massie; Ch: William, Isham, Joseph, Thomas, Sarah, Elizabeth (Baker), Lucy (Truelove), Rebecca, Mourning (dau.), Peter m. 2nd. Mary Tomlinson. No CH.
(I have not found, where Elizabeth Avant Baker is buried )
(Have heard some were talking about, getting a fund raised for the restoration
of Rev. Andrew Baker's grave and grave site)
Information provided by Dorothy Alexander, from Hancock County, Tennessee Historical Book


A book on the AVANTS (AVENTS) and their ancestors has been written by Mamie Lee Avent Parker and Claude Hunter Moore. "The AVENTS and Their Kin of Avent Perry".

More About Elizabeth Avant:
Date born 2: 12 September 1753, Brunswick Co, VA.3
Record Change: 15 July 20004

More About Elizabeth Avant and Rev.Andrew Baker, Jr.:
Marriage 1: 1769, Lee County, VA.5
Marriage 2: 1768, Grayson Co., VA.6

Children of Elizabeth Avant and Rev.Andrew Baker, Jr. are:
  1. +Solomon Baker, b. 13 April 1770, Wilkes Co., North Carolina6, d. date unknown6.
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