Alice (Baker) Silliman (1935)

BAKER, BLACK, KIMER, MOORE, SILLIMAN, SMITH, WILSON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 3/9/2007 at 18:07:53

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, October 24, 1935

MRS. ALICE SILLIMAN DIES

Mrs. Alice Silliman, former resident of Madison county, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. G. L. Kimer in Indianola last Saturday night, at 10:30 o'clock. Mrs. Silliman who was 77 years of age, had been ill for the past three months.

The funeral was held at Overton's funeral home Monday afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock, the Rev. Mearle A. Gable, pastor of the Methodist church officiating, and burial was in the Indianola cemetery.

Mrs. Silliman's parents, Daniel and Fannie Moore Baker, were married in Des Moines county, in 1845, and were among the early immigrants to Madison county, and settled on a farm near Peru, where Mrs. Silliman was born, the seventh of a family of 15 children, of whom six are still living. They are Mrs. I. E. T. Wilson, Mrs. George Black, William, John and Sherman Baker of this county, and Eldon Baker of Flint, Michigan.

In 1878 Alice Baker was married to Addison Silliman, and they lived on a farm in the old neighborhood, until 1902, when they moved to Indianola, to be with their two daughters, who were attending college. Her husband preceded her in death, in October 1913, and one daughter, Gertie died in infancy. Her daughters surviving her are Mrs. G. L. Kimer of Indianola, and Mrs. Leonard Smith of Fort Dodge. She also leaves four grandchildren.

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