Baker, S. Jennie 1838-1912

BAKER, BROWN, ELLSWORTH

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Date: 4/23/2010 at 15:00:44

Grinnell Herald (Grinnell, Iowa) Jan. 26, 1912

MRS. S. JENNIE BAKER

Miss S. Jennie Brown was born at Tippecanoe, in Harrison County, Ohio, on January 1st, 1838, removed to Vinton, Iowa, with her parents, John M. and Eliza Jane Brown, in 1855. Here she made her home until 1865, when she removed with them to Grinnell, Iowa.

Miss Brown was united in marriage to John W. Baker, in Grinnell, in 1876. Mr. Baker passed to the better land on August 28, 1899.

Mrs. Baker lived a quiet, gentle life in Grinnell, and won many friends by her kindliness, and genial disposition. These friends mourn her departure, not as one dead, but one gone before.

She united with the Presbyterian church while living in Vinton, after removing to Grinnell she joined the Congregational church in March, 1866, by letter form the Vinton church. There are surviving her two brothers, A.H. Brown, of Central City, Iowa, and George T. Brown, of Los Angeles, California, and several nieces.

The funeral was held Friday afternoon from the home of Mrs. Ellsworth, at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Elm street. The service was conducted by Rev. P.F. Marston, assisted by Professor S.J. Buck a friend of many years. The music was furnished by Miss Nellie Greene Clarke and Mrs. V.G. Preston, who sang two duets very sweetly. The members of the Drummond Club, of which Mrs. Baker was a charter member, attended in a body.

The pall bearers were G.H. Hamlin, A.A. Foster, O.T. Frisbie, S.J. Pooley, H.G. Lyman and Aldace Child.