Butler County KS Archives Obituaries.....Baker, David M. January 2, 1908
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Walnut Valley Times, January 4, 1908
Baker

Daivd M. Baker died Thursday, December 31 after an extended illness at his home 
in El Dorado.

Mr. Baker was born in Monroe county, Ohio December 19, 1830. With his wife he 
came to Kansas in 1870 and settled on a homestead in Fairview township. He and 
his family encountered the vissituties of ioneering on his claim for 14 years.

Then he went to Iowa for a while returning to El Dorado some ten years ago and 
has resided here since.

He was a Union soldier, served three years and seven months in Co. I, 77th Ohio 
Volunteers and spent 10 months a prisoner in Tyler, Texas. He was a member of 
Wallace Post G.A.R. and a few of the comrades left alive attended his funeral 
which occurred Friday, January 1. His body was laid to rest in this little 
cemetery near Welcome School house in Fairview township, where dear memories 
cherished for him. Many who knew him and his family, years and years ago were 
present to show their regard for an old time neighbor.

Mr. Baker was not endowed as a man successful in the accumulation of property, 
he perhaps had ideals which he never reached, perhaps never approached but he 
was a sincere, honest man, kind neighbor and friend and a good husband and 
father.

His children surviving are Mrs. E. H. Stewart of Hutchinson, Mrs. Grant 
Chamberlain of Portland, Orgeon; and his sons Wills, Carl and Milton Dane, 
Oklahoma; James of Portland, and Joseph and Jacob of Fairview township.

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