Margaret Baker (1874)

BAKER, WHITE, WILKINSON

Posted By: Ida Morse
Date: 8/23/2007 at 12:42:37

The Weekly Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, February 12, 1874

Mrs. Margaret Baker, relict [widow] of George Baker, formerly of Walnut township, died on the 3d inst., at the residence of her son, Hon. A. J. Baker, of St. Louis. Her disease was pneumonia. She was sick only about five days.

Her son brought her remains to this city, to the residence of her son-in-law, J. S. White, Esq., arriving last Friday evening. She was buried on Sunday. A large number of mourning friends followed her remains to the grave, tendering their sympathy to the bereaved family. Mrs. Baker was an estimable woman and universally respected.

She was born in Virginia and was 74 years old. she has been a member of the Methodist church 55 years.
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The Weekly Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, February 12, 1874
Page 5, Column 3

Mrs. Helen Wilkinson, of California, reached our city last Friday. At Des Moines she met the remains of her grandmother, Mrs. Baker. She had no word of her death until reaching Des Moines, Mrs. W. will spend the winter here, and in the spring or summer her husband, A. W. Wilkinson, our late County Surveyor, will return to Iowa. He has had all he wants of California.

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