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Baker, Burtis M.
LAST NAME: Baker FIRST NAME: Burtis MIDDLE NAME: M. NICKNAME: Burt
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 9 Dec 1874 DIED: 10 Oct 1912 BURIED:  ~ Womer Cemetery
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Niles, Berrien, Michigan
DEATH PLACE: Airlie, Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

Marriage of Parents – Robert Baker & Emma File md 20 Aug 1871, Berrien co, Michigan

Parents are buried in Hayesville Cemetery, Marion Co, Oregon

1880 MI CENSUS – Bertie Baker (6y, b Michigan) enumerated with parents Robert (28y, b Michigan, occupation farm laborer) and Emma (28y, b Michigan) and infant brother [Lloyd] (b Mar 1880, Michigan)

MARRIAGE – ca 1904, Marion Co, Oregon, to Maude M. Powell

1910 OR CENSUS - Burtis Baker, age 36, occupation farmer, b. Michigan, is enumerated with his wife of six years, Maud, age 25, mother of 2 children, b. Oregon, along with Floy A., age 5, b. Oregon, and Merle, age 1 yr 9 mos, b. Oregon.

NOTE – first husband of Maude M. Lady

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (Polk County 1912) #3053 – Burtis Baker, male, married, b. 9 Dec 1873 in Niles, Michigan, d. 10 Oct 1912 in Airlie, Oregon at the age of 39 y’s, name of father Robert Baker (b. Bichoner, Michigan), maiden name of mother Mary E. File (b. Niles, Michigan).

OBITUARY: 

Peedee: Bert Baker died at his home near Peedee Thursday and was buried Saturday at the Womer cemetery. He was about 38 years old. He leaves a wife and two children, father and mother, besides other relatives. He was a brother-in-law of Henry Powell.

Polk County Itemizer, Thursday, October 17, 1912, 8:1

INSCRIPTION: 

Baker
Burt M.
Dec 9, 1874
Oct 12, 1912
[shares marker with Maude Baker Lady]

SOURCES: 

Saucy Survey & Photographs
OSBH DC (Polk County 1912) #3053 

Michigan Marriage Records (ancestry.com)

1880 MI CENSUS (Berrien co, Bertrand, ED 4, FA#51)

1910 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Chemawa, ED 205, sheet 2A)

Polk County Itemizer, 17 Oct 1912, 8:1

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