... To Mr. and Mrs. Baker have been born nine children, of whom four are dead. In the order of their ages they are here mentioned:
- Clara, wife of Sim Tarkington, now living at Tulare, California;
- John C., who died at the age of twenty-four:
- Benjamin Franklin, who lives at Oakland, California:
- Laura, the wife of Hon. Will R. Pleak, but who has been dead for several years:
- Samuel L., who has been for sixteen years an attorney-at-law in Minneapolis:
- David M., who was killed in this city in 1884:
- Harriet B. and Sadie, both at home, and
- Marsh, who died in infancy.
