OBIT: Solomon BAKER, 1932, Meyersdale R.D. 4, Somerset County, Pa

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SOLOMON BAKER

  MEYERSDALE, R.D. 4, March 23 - The dark cloud has been hovering very close to 
our Greenville folks this week, in fact it has shed some of its sorrowful 
darkness in a few homes.  While casting its shadow of death, it claimed one of 
our best known citizens, Solomon Baker.  Mr. Baker was taken seriously ill on 
Tuesday of last week and never again gained consciousness after that.  He died 
Saturday evening at about 11:30 o'clock.  His death was caused by paralysis.  
Mr. Baker was aged 63 years, 10 months and 4 days.  He worked for Richard Newman 
at lumbering for many years, and when at last his health compelled him to quit 
the sawmill, Mr. Newman was deeply moved, because those two men had been working 
companions and friends for a long while.  This companionship seems more than 
earthly, and it does bring the thought to us that even in death they are not to 
be parted, because so soon Mr. Baker followed his friend to the Great Beyond.
  Mr. Baker is survived by the following children:  John, Elmer, Harvey, 
Clarence, Jess, Frank, George, Edna, Mae, Mrs. William Keefer and Mrs. Jacob 
Baer, and these brothers and sisters:  Daniel, George, Harvey, and Mrs. Susan 
Arnold of Finzel, Md., and Miss Lydia Baker of Pittsburgh.  Mr. Baker's wife and 
two of their children preceded him to the grave.
  Funeral services were held on Tuesday at 2 o'clock at the Greenville Lutheran 
Church, interment in the church cemetery.  Rev. S. D. Sigler conducted the 
funeral services, and Undertaker W. C. Price had charge of the burial 
arrangements.

Meyersdale Republican, March 24, 1932