| Notes |
- from "Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1950" (ancestry.com)
A.W. Baker, a farmer, married 22 yrs with 2/4 children living, born 6 Jan 1832 in NY to Royal Baker and Sarah Shaw, died on 30 Dec 1901 in Highland, Oakland, MI of pernicious anemia. Burial on 1 Jan in Highland Cemetery. Informant W.W. Baker.
- From "History of Oakland County, Michigan" by Thaddeus D. Seeley, 1912
Born at Penn Yan, New York, in 1824, Anson W. Baker was twelve years old when he came with his parents to Oakland county, and on the home farm, which was located three miles west of Clyde, grew to manhood. In his boyhood days schoolhouses, churches and costly residences were here unknown; and neither railways nor telegraph or telephone lines spanned these broad acres, few, if any, evidences of modern civilization [Begin Page 631] then existing. One of four brothers to inherit the parental homestead, he received as his share one hundred and twenty acres of timbered land, which he converted into a productive farm. Selling that, he subsequently bought out one of his brothers, becoming owner of that part of the old farm on which the house stood. He built a new house, added to the improvements previously begun, and there engaged in tilling the soil for many years. When ready to retire from active pursuits he removed to Clyde, where his death occurred at the age of seventy-six years. He married Julia A. Cowles, who is still living in Clyde, being now seventy-six years old. She has two sons, namely: Wilson W., with whom this sketch is chiefly concerned; and Winford L., of Los Angeles, California. The latter has been a railroad man all of his life, having formerly been associated with the Pere Marquette road, with office either in Detroit or Saginaw, and now being chief clerk for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
|
1832 - 1901 (69 years)
