Baker, Harry 1896-1906

BAKER

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 2/4/2005 at 08:46:50

Harry Baker, the ten-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baker, passed away this afternoon at 12:30 o’clock after an illness of but a few days of traumatic tetanus.

It was a week ago last Thursday that he was playing with a toy pistol and wounded his finger. His parents thought for a few days that his finger was hurt on a barbwire fence. When Harry told them how he hurt it, his father took out a piece of wad, which had been in the finger for several days.

Last Friday he complained to his mother that his back was sunburned and hurt him. She examined it but finding no sign of it being sunburned, and as he still complained they sent for a physician, who said the spinal trouble was a symptom of tetanus. Since that time Harry has suffered intensely.

He would have been eleven years old next September, and was a bright little child, a friend of every one who knew him.

The time of the funeral has not yet been appointed but will be held some time on Thursday. ~ The Newton Daily News, Newton, IA, Tuesday, July 3, 1906, Page 1, Column 6