Marshall County IN Archives Obituaries.....Baker, Edward August 23, 1838
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Fayetteville Luminary and Reformed Methodist Intelligencer, March 5, 1840. Vol. 3, No. 32
Dr. Bailey, I send you an account of the death of my father, mother, and one 
of my brothers which I wish you to publish for the sake of distant relatives 
and friends.  Z. Baker

Manlius, Feb. 28th, 1840

Died, - August 21, 1839, in the town of Lake State of Indiana, Mr. Edward 
Baker in the 65th year of age.  Also on the same day, Mrs. Patience, wife of 
Edward Baker, is 6d d years of her age.  In Sept. following, (the day not 
known,) Mr. John Baker, fifth son of Edward Baker, in the 28th year of his 
age.


Additional Comments:
My father and mother were natives of Cape Cod, Mass.  My father was a sea-
faring man for twenty-one years.  He then moved into this country, and after 
making several moves, last year, he exchanged a farm in the town of 
Hastings, Oswego Co. N. N., for another in Indiana where he resided when he 
died.  He moved there last April with his family, consisting of himself and 
my mother, two sons and one daughter.  They enjoyed good health the fore 
part of the season.  Mother was taken sick first and died in about three 
weeks.  She at first had fits of the chill fever, which terminated in the 
billions fever.  She was deranged for the most part of the time, especially 
the last week of her life.  Father had a short sickness of only three days.  
His disease was the chill fever; was not considered dangerous until the day 
before he died;  died about fifteen minutes before the death of my mother; 
both died about the setting of the sun; and neither was feft to mour the 
loss of the other.  They were both buried in the same grave.
 
The serving members of the family were all sick at the same time.  They 
recovered a little, and started towards the last of September to return to 
this state, came as far as Chicago, and here Joh, the oldest of them died.  
The others have returned, but are still in feeble health.

My father and mother were both of them professors of religion; they make a 
public profession in 1826, and joined the Free Communion Baptist Church, of 
which they remained acceptable members (as far as I know) at the time of 
their deaths.  My father knew what if was to enjoy cloe communion with God.  
The day before he died, my brother who lay sick on a bed in another part of 
the room, said he made several attempts to speak to him, and found not.  His 
countenance appeared to be lit up with the full prospect of heaven, beyond 
what he had ever seen in him before.  There was nothing particularly known 
as to my mothers religious feeling in her last moments, as w=she was 
deranged for most of the time.  But I mour not as those who have no hope.

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