Searching for Baker Whitfield Connection
In perusing the Whitfield Forum, I see that there were marriages between Bakers and Whitfields.My question may seem strange, and I am admittedly grasping at straws, but not until I read Nina's query about Robert Baker's possible marriage to a Joan Whitfield did it occur to me that an intermarriage between my Baker line with a Whitfield might explain the passing ofWhitfield as a middle name through three generations of my Bakers.My ggrandfather Rev. John W. (we're pretty sure it's Whitfield) Baker, born September 7, 1821 in SC, named my grandfather, born June 22, 1849, in SC, George WHITFIELD Baker.He passed the middle name to one of his sons, John WHITFIELD Baker, born November 28, 1880, in AL.Can anyone out there help me make a connection, or do you think I am barking up the wrong tree? (No pun intended).Thanks in advance for taking the time to respond.
James Mallory