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- from "Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947" (familysearch.org)
Alice Frances Baker, a high school teacher residing Taylorsville IL, single, born 10 Jul 1902 in Hampton IL to Silas Sawyer Baker, b. Hampton, and Lyly Myrtle Sims Biggs, b. PA, died on 16 Apr 1935 in Monmouth, Warren, IL. Burial on 18 Apr in Hampton cemetery, Hampton, IL.
- from "The Jacksonville (IL) Daily Journal", 17 Apr 1935 (newspapers.com)
Taylorville, Ill., April 16. - Miss Alice Baker, 33, a teacher at the Taylorville high school for the last eight years and graduate of MacMurray College of Jacksonville, died at 6:40 a.m Tuesday at the hospital in Monmouth of injuries sustained in an auto accident a week ago Sunday. Miss Baker had gone to Davenport, Iowa to be at the bedside of her mother who was ill in a hospital there and was returning to Taylorville when the accident occurred. Her car and another collided head-on at the edge of Monmouth. She sustained a fracture of the skull and other injuries and never regained consciousness. Miss Baker had been teacher of girls' physical education at the high school here for eight years and was dean of girls. Her home was in Reynolds, Ill., near Rock Island. Surviving are her parents, a sister, Mrs. Golley and a brother, Leonard Baker, all of Reynolds, Ill. Miss Baker was a member of Lambda Society of MacMurray College.
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