Published in the Rochester(IN) News-Sentinel, Friday, July 9, 1926
Harry Dean BAKER, son of Mr. and Mrs. George BAKER of the Green Oak neighborhood, was instantly killed, Thursday evening at 6:20, when a Grand Trunk freight engine struck the Ford coupe in which he was riding at "death crossing" at Mishawaka, Ind. Baker, who has been a student at Indiana university for the past two and a half years, was employed during his vacation months by the Fuller Brush Co., and was assigned territory around Mishawaka, where he lived with his brother, Donald [BAKER] and wife. At 6:20 yesterday evening Baker was driving his Ford coupe and in attempting to cross the Grand Trunk tracks, was run down by a fast freight engine. Witnesses who were near state that the car rolled over and over down the tracks, finally swerving off the rails and coming to rest at the foot of a 60-foot embankment. Medical examination revealed that death had been instantaneous; the victim suffered severe skull fractures, a broken leg and a badly mangled torso. The scene of this fatality is known as "death crossing" there having been six people killed at this same point within the past eight months. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. BAKER returned this morning from Mishawaka where they were called late last night, bringing the body of their son to the farm home about one and a half miles south of Green Oak. Harry Dean, son of George and Nellie BAKER, was born near Green Oak, on March 2, 1905. The deceased attended common school near the farm home and finished his high school studies at Macy in 1922. Upon the completion of his high school work he entered Indiana university, where he would have entered his junior year this coming fall. Besides the parents, Harry is survived by the following brothers, Robert [BAKER], of this city and Donald [BAKER] of Mishawaka, and one sister, Miss Florence [BAKER], at home, and numerous relatives and friends throughout this county. Joe BAKER of this city is a cousin to the deceased. Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church at Macy on Sunday afternoon.
SOURCE:
http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/Genealogy/Tombaugh/Obituaries/Html/1926.htm
Harry Dean BAKER, son of Mr. and Mrs. George BAKER of the Green Oak neighborhood, was instantly killed, Thursday evening at 6:20, when a Grand Trunk freight engine struck the Ford coupe in which he was riding at "death crossing" at Mishawaka, Ind. Baker, who has been a student at Indiana university for the past two and a half years, was employed during his vacation months by the Fuller Brush Co., and was assigned territory around Mishawaka, where he lived with his brother, Donald [BAKER] and wife. At 6:20 yesterday evening Baker was driving his Ford coupe and in attempting to cross the Grand Trunk tracks, was run down by a fast freight engine. Witnesses who were near state that the car rolled over and over down the tracks, finally swerving off the rails and coming to rest at the foot of a 60-foot embankment. Medical examination revealed that death had been instantaneous; the victim suffered severe skull fractures, a broken leg and a badly mangled torso. The scene of this fatality is known as "death crossing" there having been six people killed at this same point within the past eight months. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. BAKER returned this morning from Mishawaka where they were called late last night, bringing the body of their son to the farm home about one and a half miles south of Green Oak. Harry Dean, son of George and Nellie BAKER, was born near Green Oak, on March 2, 1905. The deceased attended common school near the farm home and finished his high school studies at Macy in 1922. Upon the completion of his high school work he entered Indiana university, where he would have entered his junior year this coming fall. Besides the parents, Harry is survived by the following brothers, Robert [BAKER], of this city and Donald [BAKER] of Mishawaka, and one sister, Miss Florence [BAKER], at home, and numerous relatives and friends throughout this county. Joe BAKER of this city is a cousin to the deceased. Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church at Macy on Sunday afternoon.
SOURCE:
http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/Genealogy/Tombaugh/Obituaries/Html/1926.htm
Published in the Rochester(IN) News-Sentinel, Friday, July 9, 1926
Harry Dean BAKER, son of Mr. and Mrs. George BAKER of the Green Oak neighborhood, was instantly killed, Thursday evening at 6:20, when a Grand Trunk freight engine struck the Ford coupe in which he was riding at "death crossing" at Mishawaka, Ind. Baker, who has been a student at Indiana university for the past two and a half years, was employed during his vacation months by the Fuller Brush Co., and was assigned territory around Mishawaka, where he lived with his brother, Donald [BAKER] and wife. At 6:20 yesterday evening Baker was driving his Ford coupe and in attempting to cross the Grand Trunk tracks, was run down by a fast freight engine. Witnesses who were near state that the car rolled over and over down the tracks, finally swerving off the rails and coming to rest at the foot of a 60-foot embankment. Medical examination revealed that death had been instantaneous; the victim suffered severe skull fractures, a broken leg and a badly mangled torso. The scene of this fatality is known as "death crossing" there having been six people killed at this same point within the past eight months. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. BAKER returned this morning from Mishawaka where they were called late last night, bringing the body of their son to the farm home about one and a half miles south of Green Oak. Harry Dean, son of George and Nellie BAKER, was born near Green Oak, on March 2, 1905. The deceased attended common school near the farm home and finished his high school studies at Macy in 1922. Upon the completion of his high school work he entered Indiana university, where he would have entered his junior year this coming fall. Besides the parents, Harry is survived by the following brothers, Robert [BAKER], of this city and Donald [BAKER] of Mishawaka, and one sister, Miss Florence [BAKER], at home, and numerous relatives and friends throughout this county. Joe BAKER of this city is a cousin to the deceased. Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church at Macy on Sunday afternoon.
SOURCE:
http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/Genealogy/Tombaugh/Obituaries/Html/1926.htm
Harry Dean BAKER, son of Mr. and Mrs. George BAKER of the Green Oak neighborhood, was instantly killed, Thursday evening at 6:20, when a Grand Trunk freight engine struck the Ford coupe in which he was riding at "death crossing" at Mishawaka, Ind. Baker, who has been a student at Indiana university for the past two and a half years, was employed during his vacation months by the Fuller Brush Co., and was assigned territory around Mishawaka, where he lived with his brother, Donald [BAKER] and wife. At 6:20 yesterday evening Baker was driving his Ford coupe and in attempting to cross the Grand Trunk tracks, was run down by a fast freight engine. Witnesses who were near state that the car rolled over and over down the tracks, finally swerving off the rails and coming to rest at the foot of a 60-foot embankment. Medical examination revealed that death had been instantaneous; the victim suffered severe skull fractures, a broken leg and a badly mangled torso. The scene of this fatality is known as "death crossing" there having been six people killed at this same point within the past eight months. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. BAKER returned this morning from Mishawaka where they were called late last night, bringing the body of their son to the farm home about one and a half miles south of Green Oak. Harry Dean, son of George and Nellie BAKER, was born near Green Oak, on March 2, 1905. The deceased attended common school near the farm home and finished his high school studies at Macy in 1922. Upon the completion of his high school work he entered Indiana university, where he would have entered his junior year this coming fall. Besides the parents, Harry is survived by the following brothers, Robert [BAKER], of this city and Donald [BAKER] of Mishawaka, and one sister, Miss Florence [BAKER], at home, and numerous relatives and friends throughout this county. Joe BAKER of this city is a cousin to the deceased. Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church at Macy on Sunday afternoon.
SOURCE:
http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/Genealogy/Tombaugh/Obituaries/Html/1926.htm
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