OBIT: Hetty R. BAKER, 1900, Allegheny Furnace, Blair County, PA

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RECORD OF DEATHS.

  At 8.55 o'clock Monday night Mrs. Hetty R. Baker, one of the earliest 
residents of this vicinity, and almost the oldest in the county, died at her 
home, the old Baker homestead, at Allegheny Furnace, of diseases incident to 
old age.  She had been in failing health for several years.  Deceased was 
the widow of Elias Baker, who built the furnaces at Allegheny, just south of 
the city, and was born in Lancaster, Pa., October 2, 1803.  With her husband 
she came to Blair county (then Huntingdon) in 1830 and settled at Allegheny 
Furnace.  The ground on which Altoona is now located was then farming land.  
Her husband preceded her to the grave in 1864, and since then Mrs. Baker 
resided at the old homestead.  She was a devout Christian lady, a member of 
the Second Presbyterian church and highly esteemed by a host of friends.  
She is survived by two children, Dr. S. C. Baker and Miss Anna Baker, both 
at home, and by one grand-child, Miss Louise W. Beckman, now in Sweden.  
  The funeral services, which will be public, will be conducted at the house 
at 2.30 o'clock Thursday afternoon by Rev. J. L. Russell, formerly pastor of 
the Second Presbyterian church but now of Darby, near Philadelphia.  The 
interment will be private and will be made in Fairview cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Wednesday, May 16, 1900