Charles E. Baker (1889)

BAKER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 11/24/2007 at 08:32:57

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday April 26, 1889
Page 5

East Peru Prattle.

Again it is our sad duty to chronicle the death of one of Madison county’s best young men. Charley Baker, who has long been a sufferer, died on the 20th; funeral sermon on the 21st by Rev. Patterson. Mother Baker in her sad bereavement has the sympathy of a host of friends.
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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, May 3, 1889
Page 4

OBITUARY.

Charles E. Baker was born in Peru, Nov. 7th, 1856, where he resided till the time of his death, which occurred April 20th, 1889. The funeral services were held at the M. E. church on the following day at 2 p.m., at which time appeared the greatest concourse of people ever assembled at Peru on such an occasion, for the purpose of looking upon for the last time a neighbor, a citizen, a friend, a loved one.

Charley, as he was familiarly called, was truly, in many respects, a representative man, for though bright, buoyant and jovial, his was in reality, a mind replete in reason and in thought, in fine, in all the elements that go to make up real true, fully developed manhood. He was deliberate, judicious, far-seeing, discreet in every respect, a careful and prudent son and loving brother, both meriting and receiving as such the highest praise from all who knew him, and when fell disease preyed upon and forced him to retire from active life, his force of mind and character were not abated.

The hour of dissolving nature to him was as an hour of real practical Christian life, and thus passed away our brother and friend to “where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are forever at rest.”

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