Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Fred Aaron BAKER ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, June 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ OBITUARY FRED AARON BAKER May 13, 1864-July 7, 1924 Fred A. Baker was born in Evansville, May 19, 1864, the son of Aaron T. and Julia Southwick Baker. With the exception of a few years spent in Janesville as a boy, his entire life was centered in Evansville where he was an employe and later a member of the firm of F. A. Baker and Co. He was actively interested in all civic groups and developments, having served as village treasurer, president of the school board, and as county supervisor. He was a member of the Masonic Knight Templar and Knights of Pythias orders. During the war he was vitally interested in the Liberty Loan drives and other war activities. On November 19, 1885, Mr. Baker married Margaret M. Williams of Evansville, who survives him, together with their three children--June, Elizabeth and Loyal. Of his immediate family there also remains a sister, Mrs. C. D. Barnard, and a brother, B. F. Baker. Professor J. F. Crawford of Beloit college read the simple service at the Masonic Temple on Monday afternoon June 14, following which burial rites were given by the local Blue Lodge with Knight Templar escort from Jamesville Commandery No. 2. Relatives and friends from out of town in attendance were Mr. and Mrs. Clarence S. Baker and son Marlin, of Janesville, Mrs. Melvin Diemer, of Madison and Mrs. George Gordon of Lodi. July 17, 1924, The Evansville Review, p. 4, col. 3, Evansville, Wisconsin