OBIT: Ella K. BAKER, 1881, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ Obituary. It becomes our painful duty to record the death of Ella K. Baker, which occurred yesterday morning. Our amiable little friend had she lived until June 6th, would have been 13 years old; but the great destroyer saw fit to claim his victim and Ella was taken away, and were it not that duty prompts a generous tribute to the memory of those whose amiable and kindly disposition entwine our hearts about them, we fain would bow our head in submission to the decree of the Great Giver of Life and meditate on the solemn lesson thus taught us - that we, too, must die. We feel sad in our heart, because in the death of one so young, so pure, so amiable to all her friends and acquaintances; one who only had to be known to be loved, there is a sense of profound sorrow and irreparable loss felt, not only by her heart-stricken parents, but by every one who knew her. Her sufferings, though of short duration, were intense and painful to witness, but amidst all, in her moments of consciousness, she was fully resigned to "tread the valley and shadow of death." She seemed conscious from the time she was taken sick that her days would be few, but she gave her father, mother, brother and minister assurances that she feared no evil and that she would meet them on the "evergreen shore." Ah, yes; we shall forever miss her friendly face, her cordial greeting. When papa returns from his daily labor, no Ella shall meet him to take him by the hand and tell him of her childish joys or grief. She has gone to that better world to be forever blest. There where no sickness, pain or death are ever feared or felt, she basks in the effulgent rays of him who said, "Suffer little children to come until me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of Heaven." Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, May 28, 1881 1880 Altoona, Blair County census - W. H. Baker, 43 Susan Baker, 47 Ellie Baker, 12 Willie Baker, 11 Catherine Miley, 88, mother-in-law