Barry County Missouri Obituary John Baker 1869 - 1915 
Source: Scrapbook bought at the estate sale of Vivian Roller by Ted W. Roller


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JOHN BAKER DIED  LAST  THURSDAY  Another  home  in  this  city  as  been
saddened, bowed down with grief and heart strings torn  that  cannot  be
healed only by time. A good wife is mourning the passing of her husband,
and children are sobbing for the absent father, brothers and sisters are
bowed down with sadness, on account of the separation.

It is so sad to see young men pass, but it has been so decreed and  will
continue for all time to come. Death is an unwelcome  visitor  to  every
family, yet every family has tasted of its bitterness  at  sometime  and
all will continue to.

John R. Baker died Thursday evening, Feb. 25, 1915, at his home in  this
city, of stomach and liver trouble, aged 46 years, 1 month and 19 days.

He was the son of the late Mr and Mrs. Andrew J. Baker  old  and  highly
respected citizens of near this city, during life and was born  Jan.  6,
1869, in Roaring River township, this county, and has lived  his  entire
life in the county. He attended the country schools  and  the  Cassville
High School, while the late Prof. Malden was Superintendent, and  taught
several schools in this county, very successfully.

January, 1892, he and Miss Mattie Lowder, a most  estimable  lady,  were
married and seven children were born of this marriage, four of whom  are
living, we are: Rolla, Marie, Robert and Ross.

He was a brother of Columbus Baker of Oklahoma, A.J., J.C.,  Albert  and
Will Baker of and near this city, Mrs. Harvey Higgs of near Wheaton, and
Mrs. Lou Davis of Idaho.

For several years he has been in the real estate business in this city.