Tombstone Reads:
MRS. SADIE
BAKER
BORN in Illinois
OCT. 6, 1871.
DIED in Portland, Ore.
JAN. 29, 1897.
Aged 25 ys 3 ms 23ds
BAKER
____________________
Sadie did not have the most joyous of lives, sadly. When she was but 7 years old her mother, Mary Caroline died of breast cancer. She was sent off to live with her aunt, Charlotte Amelia (Berrian) Baggs until her oldest brother Ed Mack brought her to Columbus, Washington, when a teen ager, where her older half brother, James Edwin Lucius Clark was residing, along with their uncle, James Berrian, plus her brother Fred Leroy Mack.
The Clark-Mack family moved across the river to Biggs, Oregon. It was during this period that she met Charles F. (probably Forrest) Baker. She married him, but he turned out to be a gambler and not a good husband to her and the baby that arrived, whom she named Forrest Leroy Baker. The Leroy was in honor of her brother Fred Leroy, whom she was very close to.
It is not known what happened to Charles Baker, whether he deserted her and the child, but that seems to be the probability. Nothing was heard of him again. He was known to be a gambler and no doubt just left his wife and child to fend for themselves. Times grew hard for Sadie and little Forrest. She ended up in The Dalles initially where she made an attempt to support herself and her son by taking in dressmaking.
When her son was 5 he was taken for a short period of time by her brother, Fred to Biggs, but after a month was returned to her. That was the last the family saw of him, as apparently times got so that she could not provide for the two of them and he was placed with another family.
Why or when she moved to Portland remains a mystery, but upon her death, her brothers Fred and Lucius went by train to get her remains, which they buried in the cemetery in The Dalles.
Sadie's siblings were:
Walter Clark
James Edwin Lucius Clark
Albert Edward "Ed" Mack
Fred Leroy Mack
Charles Mack
William "Willie" Mack
MRS. SADIE
BAKER
BORN in Illinois
OCT. 6, 1871.
DIED in Portland, Ore.
JAN. 29, 1897.
Aged 25 ys 3 ms 23ds
BAKER
____________________
Sadie did not have the most joyous of lives, sadly. When she was but 7 years old her mother, Mary Caroline died of breast cancer. She was sent off to live with her aunt, Charlotte Amelia (Berrian) Baggs until her oldest brother Ed Mack brought her to Columbus, Washington, when a teen ager, where her older half brother, James Edwin Lucius Clark was residing, along with their uncle, James Berrian, plus her brother Fred Leroy Mack.
The Clark-Mack family moved across the river to Biggs, Oregon. It was during this period that she met Charles F. (probably Forrest) Baker. She married him, but he turned out to be a gambler and not a good husband to her and the baby that arrived, whom she named Forrest Leroy Baker. The Leroy was in honor of her brother Fred Leroy, whom she was very close to.
It is not known what happened to Charles Baker, whether he deserted her and the child, but that seems to be the probability. Nothing was heard of him again. He was known to be a gambler and no doubt just left his wife and child to fend for themselves. Times grew hard for Sadie and little Forrest. She ended up in The Dalles initially where she made an attempt to support herself and her son by taking in dressmaking.
When her son was 5 he was taken for a short period of time by her brother, Fred to Biggs, but after a month was returned to her. That was the last the family saw of him, as apparently times got so that she could not provide for the two of them and he was placed with another family.
Why or when she moved to Portland remains a mystery, but upon her death, her brothers Fred and Lucius went by train to get her remains, which they buried in the cemetery in The Dalles.
Sadie's siblings were:
Walter Clark
James Edwin Lucius Clark
Albert Edward "Ed" Mack
Fred Leroy Mack
Charles Mack
William "Willie" Mack
Tombstone Reads:
MRS. SADIE
BAKER
BORN in Illinois
OCT. 6, 1871.
DIED in Portland, Ore.
JAN. 29, 1897.
Aged 25 ys 3 ms 23ds
BAKER
____________________
Sadie did not have the most joyous of lives, sadly. When she was but 7 years old her mother, Mary Caroline died of breast cancer. She was sent off to live with her aunt, Charlotte Amelia (Berrian) Baggs until her oldest brother Ed Mack brought her to Columbus, Washington, when a teen ager, where her older half brother, James Edwin Lucius Clark was residing, along with their uncle, James Berrian, plus her brother Fred Leroy Mack.
The Clark-Mack family moved across the river to Biggs, Oregon. It was during this period that she met Charles F. (probably Forrest) Baker. She married him, but he turned out to be a gambler and not a good husband to her and the baby that arrived, whom she named Forrest Leroy Baker. The Leroy was in honor of her brother Fred Leroy, whom she was very close to.
It is not known what happened to Charles Baker, whether he deserted her and the child, but that seems to be the probability. Nothing was heard of him again. He was known to be a gambler and no doubt just left his wife and child to fend for themselves. Times grew hard for Sadie and little Forrest. She ended up in The Dalles initially where she made an attempt to support herself and her son by taking in dressmaking.
When her son was 5 he was taken for a short period of time by her brother, Fred to Biggs, but after a month was returned to her. That was the last the family saw of him, as apparently times got so that she could not provide for the two of them and he was placed with another family.
Why or when she moved to Portland remains a mystery, but upon her death, her brothers Fred and Lucius went by train to get her remains, which they buried in the cemetery in The Dalles.
Sadie's siblings were:
Walter Clark
James Edwin Lucius Clark
Albert Edward "Ed" Mack
Fred Leroy Mack
Charles Mack
William "Willie" Mack
MRS. SADIE
BAKER
BORN in Illinois
OCT. 6, 1871.
DIED in Portland, Ore.
JAN. 29, 1897.
Aged 25 ys 3 ms 23ds
BAKER
____________________
Sadie did not have the most joyous of lives, sadly. When she was but 7 years old her mother, Mary Caroline died of breast cancer. She was sent off to live with her aunt, Charlotte Amelia (Berrian) Baggs until her oldest brother Ed Mack brought her to Columbus, Washington, when a teen ager, where her older half brother, James Edwin Lucius Clark was residing, along with their uncle, James Berrian, plus her brother Fred Leroy Mack.
The Clark-Mack family moved across the river to Biggs, Oregon. It was during this period that she met Charles F. (probably Forrest) Baker. She married him, but he turned out to be a gambler and not a good husband to her and the baby that arrived, whom she named Forrest Leroy Baker. The Leroy was in honor of her brother Fred Leroy, whom she was very close to.
It is not known what happened to Charles Baker, whether he deserted her and the child, but that seems to be the probability. Nothing was heard of him again. He was known to be a gambler and no doubt just left his wife and child to fend for themselves. Times grew hard for Sadie and little Forrest. She ended up in The Dalles initially where she made an attempt to support herself and her son by taking in dressmaking.
When her son was 5 he was taken for a short period of time by her brother, Fred to Biggs, but after a month was returned to her. That was the last the family saw of him, as apparently times got so that she could not provide for the two of them and he was placed with another family.
Why or when she moved to Portland remains a mystery, but upon her death, her brothers Fred and Lucius went by train to get her remains, which they buried in the cemetery in The Dalles.
Sadie's siblings were:
Walter Clark
James Edwin Lucius Clark
Albert Edward "Ed" Mack
Fred Leroy Mack
Charles Mack
William "Willie" Mack
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