Almira Elizabeth (Richards) Baker (1898)

BAKER, RICHARDS

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson
Date: 12/19/2006 at 09:36:32

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
October 19, 1898

"Grandma Baker," a well known character at the poor farm, died Sunday morning.
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Winterset Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
October 20, 1898
Page 8

Mother Baker Dead.

Mrs. Alvina Baker who has been an inmate of the county asylum for twenty years died near noon Monday and was buried at 3 o’clock Tuesday.

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Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, October 21, 1898
Page 5, Column 2

Mrs. Baker, a blind and insane woman at the county poor farm, died Monday afternoon. She had been a county charge for a great number of years and has been totally blind for over ten years and more or less insane for forty years. She had two or three children who were insane.
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Coordinator's note: The deceased along with daughter, Ester, are found at the poor farm in the 1895 Iowa State census. The deceased's first and maiden name are found in an 1884 Madison County Marriage Record for son John. Her middle name comes from the Iowa Death Certificate for daughter Margaret.