John Baker
Born: September 5, 1809 in Newark, Licking Co., Ohio1
Died: November 5, 1870
Buried: Lot 54, plot 8
Lot Owner: William Baker, purchased in 1882
Married: Isabel1
Children: Charles M., David3, William M., John3 and Hanna Margarette2
Parents:
John Baker1
Isabel Susan Baker4
Born: February 10, 1810 in Ohio4, 5
Died: 13 Aug 1890 in Hartfort Twp., Licking Co., Ohio1 Some time after John's death, she went back to Ohio, married Claudis Graves in 1873.
Married: John Baker1
Children: Charles M., David3, William M., John3 and Hanna Margarette2
Susan Baker1
1. Morgan-Hunter Funeral Home Record, page 26. Can locate at iagenweb.org/jasper/. Name is recorded as Susan.
2. 1860 U.S. Census, Ohio, Licking Co., Hartford Twp.
3. 1850 U.S. Censis, Ohio, Licking Co., Hardtord Twp.
4. 1870 U.S. Census, Sherman Twp., Jasper Co., Iowa. Family knows her as Susan, but all census report her as Isabel
5. Find A Grave at http://www.findagrave.com/ Hartford Cemetery in Croton, Ohio.
Margaret V. Baker
Born: August 7, 1910 in Metz, Jasper Co., Iowa
Died: May 25, 1971 in Newton, Jasper Co., Iowa
Buried: Lot 53, plot 2
Lot Owner: Mrs. C. M. Baker (Ellen Peacock), purchased in 1881
Parents: Alva and Mabel Shull Baker
Margaret Baker Services Set
Funeral services for Margaret V. Baker, 60, 213 E. 4th St. S., a lifelong resident of Newton, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Toland-Wallace Funeral Home. The Rev. Edwin Frohardt, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, will conduct the services. Burial will be in Sugar Grove Cemetery. Survivors are two uncles, Harvey R. Shull of Oskaloosa and William Shull of Ames; two aunts, Mrs. Melo Cutler of Daytona Beach, Fla., and Mrs. Dora Jennison of Beverly Hills, Calif.; and several cousins,
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Office Closed: The Jasper County recorder's office will be closed between 10 and 12 noon Friday in memory of Margaret Baker, former county recorder.
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including Roy Brock of Newton and his two daughters, Mrs. Jack (Roberta) Findley of Green Bay, Wis., and Mrs. Russell (Beverly) Schakel of Monroe. She was preceded in death by her parents.
Miss Baker was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Chamber of Commerce, Jasper County Farm Bureau, B & P Women's Club, League of Women Voters and Iowa State Association of County Officers.
She was past president of Conservation Credit Union and former chairman of the Jasper County Red Cross.
Miss Baker, who served as Jasper County recorder from 1956 until 1971, was a bookkeeper at Walgreen's Drug Store in Newton until it was destroyed by fire and had been an employee of the United Telephone Co. She also had been employed in the Jasper Co. assessor's office for four years.
The daughter of Alva and Mabel Shull Baker, she was born Aug. 7, 1910 at the Baker homestead in the Metz community, southwest of Newton.
Miss Baker died at her home following a heart attack. ~ The Newton Daily News , May 26, 1971.