AN OLD SETTLER GONE.
JOHN BAKER. KICKAPOO, DIES AT AN ADVANCED AGE.
"John Baker, who had been sick the past month, died Saturday night from old age.
Had he lived a few more months he would have been eighty-four years old.
Mr. Baker was born in Johnson county, Tenn. June 24. 1813. He lived in his native state for twenty-two years.
From there he went to Jo Daviess county, Ill., where he remained but a short time and then to Freeport, where he lived twenty-two years, running a saw mill and general merchandising business.
From Freeport he went to Decatur, Iowa, where he married Miss Mary Flower and then came to Kansas. He arrived in Kickapoo April 1, 1857 and has lived here ever since, having been a resident of this place for forty years and one of the oldest settlers in Kansas.
During the time that Kickapoo was incorporated he served as police, judge, councilman and mayor. He was a staunch union man before and during the rebellion and was in the employ of the government during the war.
Mr. Baker leaves a widow and six it children to mourn his loss. Joe who it lives at Silver Cliff, Colorado; Tom, of Belton, Texas; Mrs. Sam Wilke, of Sedan, Kan.; Charles and Sam of this place and Boone, whose whereabouts are unknown. Mr. Baker had been a member of the Baptist church for thirty years.
He joined the church in 1867 during a meeting which is known among old settlers as the Dunbar revival, while the Baptist church yet stood on Plum Creek Hill.
Mr. Baker has a brother and three sisters somewhere in Tennessee, from whom he has not heard for some time. The funeral took place from the Baptist church yesterday morning at 10 o'clock.
The services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Farley, after which the remains were followed by a large concourse of friends to the Kickapoo cemetery where the last office was rendered that the living can bestow upon the dead.
The relatives of the deceased wish to sincerely thank their neighbors and friends for their kind assistance during the illness and death of their loved one."
The Leavenworth Times, 16 Feb 1897, Tue, Page 5
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John was married to Martha Julia Norris Baker, who died 30 August 1853 in Stephenson County, Illinois.
Martha was the mother of Thomas, Boone, Joseph and Elizabeth Temperance Baker.
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JOHN BAKER. KICKAPOO, DIES AT AN ADVANCED AGE.
"John Baker, who had been sick the past month, died Saturday night from old age.
Had he lived a few more months he would have been eighty-four years old.
Mr. Baker was born in Johnson county, Tenn. June 24. 1813. He lived in his native state for twenty-two years.
From there he went to Jo Daviess county, Ill., where he remained but a short time and then to Freeport, where he lived twenty-two years, running a saw mill and general merchandising business.
From Freeport he went to Decatur, Iowa, where he married Miss Mary Flower and then came to Kansas. He arrived in Kickapoo April 1, 1857 and has lived here ever since, having been a resident of this place for forty years and one of the oldest settlers in Kansas.
During the time that Kickapoo was incorporated he served as police, judge, councilman and mayor. He was a staunch union man before and during the rebellion and was in the employ of the government during the war.
Mr. Baker leaves a widow and six it children to mourn his loss. Joe who it lives at Silver Cliff, Colorado; Tom, of Belton, Texas; Mrs. Sam Wilke, of Sedan, Kan.; Charles and Sam of this place and Boone, whose whereabouts are unknown. Mr. Baker had been a member of the Baptist church for thirty years.
He joined the church in 1867 during a meeting which is known among old settlers as the Dunbar revival, while the Baptist church yet stood on Plum Creek Hill.
Mr. Baker has a brother and three sisters somewhere in Tennessee, from whom he has not heard for some time. The funeral took place from the Baptist church yesterday morning at 10 o'clock.
The services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Farley, after which the remains were followed by a large concourse of friends to the Kickapoo cemetery where the last office was rendered that the living can bestow upon the dead.
The relatives of the deceased wish to sincerely thank their neighbors and friends for their kind assistance during the illness and death of their loved one."
The Leavenworth Times, 16 Feb 1897, Tue, Page 5
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John was married to Martha Julia Norris Baker, who died 30 August 1853 in Stephenson County, Illinois.
Martha was the mother of Thomas, Boone, Joseph and Elizabeth Temperance Baker.
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AN OLD SETTLER GONE.
JOHN BAKER. KICKAPOO, DIES AT AN ADVANCED AGE.
"John Baker, who had been sick the past month, died Saturday night from old age.
Had he lived a few more months he would have been eighty-four years old.
Mr. Baker was born in Johnson county, Tenn. June 24. 1813. He lived in his native state for twenty-two years.
From there he went to Jo Daviess county, Ill., where he remained but a short time and then to Freeport, where he lived twenty-two years, running a saw mill and general merchandising business.
From Freeport he went to Decatur, Iowa, where he married Miss Mary Flower and then came to Kansas. He arrived in Kickapoo April 1, 1857 and has lived here ever since, having been a resident of this place for forty years and one of the oldest settlers in Kansas.
During the time that Kickapoo was incorporated he served as police, judge, councilman and mayor. He was a staunch union man before and during the rebellion and was in the employ of the government during the war.
Mr. Baker leaves a widow and six it children to mourn his loss. Joe who it lives at Silver Cliff, Colorado; Tom, of Belton, Texas; Mrs. Sam Wilke, of Sedan, Kan.; Charles and Sam of this place and Boone, whose whereabouts are unknown. Mr. Baker had been a member of the Baptist church for thirty years.
He joined the church in 1867 during a meeting which is known among old settlers as the Dunbar revival, while the Baptist church yet stood on Plum Creek Hill.
Mr. Baker has a brother and three sisters somewhere in Tennessee, from whom he has not heard for some time. The funeral took place from the Baptist church yesterday morning at 10 o'clock.
The services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Farley, after which the remains were followed by a large concourse of friends to the Kickapoo cemetery where the last office was rendered that the living can bestow upon the dead.
The relatives of the deceased wish to sincerely thank their neighbors and friends for their kind assistance during the illness and death of their loved one."
The Leavenworth Times, 16 Feb 1897, Tue, Page 5
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John was married to Martha Julia Norris Baker, who died 30 August 1853 in Stephenson County, Illinois.
Martha was the mother of Thomas, Boone, Joseph and Elizabeth Temperance Baker.
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JOHN BAKER. KICKAPOO, DIES AT AN ADVANCED AGE.
"John Baker, who had been sick the past month, died Saturday night from old age.
Had he lived a few more months he would have been eighty-four years old.
Mr. Baker was born in Johnson county, Tenn. June 24. 1813. He lived in his native state for twenty-two years.
From there he went to Jo Daviess county, Ill., where he remained but a short time and then to Freeport, where he lived twenty-two years, running a saw mill and general merchandising business.
From Freeport he went to Decatur, Iowa, where he married Miss Mary Flower and then came to Kansas. He arrived in Kickapoo April 1, 1857 and has lived here ever since, having been a resident of this place for forty years and one of the oldest settlers in Kansas.
During the time that Kickapoo was incorporated he served as police, judge, councilman and mayor. He was a staunch union man before and during the rebellion and was in the employ of the government during the war.
Mr. Baker leaves a widow and six it children to mourn his loss. Joe who it lives at Silver Cliff, Colorado; Tom, of Belton, Texas; Mrs. Sam Wilke, of Sedan, Kan.; Charles and Sam of this place and Boone, whose whereabouts are unknown. Mr. Baker had been a member of the Baptist church for thirty years.
He joined the church in 1867 during a meeting which is known among old settlers as the Dunbar revival, while the Baptist church yet stood on Plum Creek Hill.
Mr. Baker has a brother and three sisters somewhere in Tennessee, from whom he has not heard for some time. The funeral took place from the Baptist church yesterday morning at 10 o'clock.
The services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Farley, after which the remains were followed by a large concourse of friends to the Kickapoo cemetery where the last office was rendered that the living can bestow upon the dead.
The relatives of the deceased wish to sincerely thank their neighbors and friends for their kind assistance during the illness and death of their loved one."
The Leavenworth Times, 16 Feb 1897, Tue, Page 5
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John was married to Martha Julia Norris Baker, who died 30 August 1853 in Stephenson County, Illinois.
Martha was the mother of Thomas, Boone, Joseph and Elizabeth Temperance Baker.
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