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Frank Ernest "F E" Baker
8 Mar 1849 – 1 Feb 1882
| Birth | 8 Mar 1849 |
| Death | 1 Feb 1882 |
| Cemetery | Fairview Cemetery Smith Center , Smith County , Kansas , USA |
| Added by | Sandy Stewart on 12 Jun 2014 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106398662 |
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Obituary Died – Wednesday morning, June 25, 1881, of consumption, Mr. F. E. Baker, aged 33 years and 10 months Mr. Baker was born in Illinois and moved with his family to Iowa in the year of 1856. Was married to Miss Abigail Wright, May 23, 1868. He moved to Smith county, Kansas, in the year 1875, where he has continued to live and patiently await the time when the brittle thread of life beyond the vale of tears and confessed conversion and was baptized in the month of Feb 1877. He was a man of fine mental qualities, ever willing and ready to aid the oppressed and against whom the breath of suspicion did not breathe. He was elected Representative from Representative District No. 110 in 1878. He was elected as Representative from this County to the State Legislative on an opposition ticket to the Republican party- when that party was largely in the majority- and we believe that during that session of the Legislative he endeavored to represent the principles of the party to whom he was indebted for his election Sometime during the month of November Mr Baker bought the Smith County "Record" then published at Cedarville, and removed the same to Smith Centre, and labored hard to build up at this place a paper that would be the exponent of the principles of that party in whose success he seemed so much interested but owing to continued failing health he was compelled to sell his paper. And thus ends the life oof a man, who being an ardent worker in one political party could find warm political friends among those who differed materially with him.He endeavored to represent his constituents in an able and honorable manner, though at times he was so weak physically as not to occupy his seat, yet it was said of him, well done. He was held in high esteem by all who knew him in the community where he formerly lived. We feel in this untimely departure, that we lost a good neighbor and kind friend and the family of the deceased have our heartfelt sympathy in this their great bereavement. Funeral services were conducted by Elder Grover in the Congregational church, where a large concourse of friends and relatives assembled to pay their respects and last sad rites to one whom they had loved and one who had patiently awaited the time when it would be said of him, "it is enough, come up into the realms of the blest, where sickness and suffering do not come." A short time before his departure from this life be said to his friends who were standing around his dying couch, that he was ready and desired to go. When he closed his eyes in death, a placid smile seemed to say, "weeping mother and children all is well, weep not for me". May we imitate his virtues. He was entered in the Fairview cemetery Thursday, Jan 26, 1882.
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- Lena M Baker 1869–1886
- Lewis "Clyde" Baker 1870–1933
- Wright Wales Baker 1871–1953
- Ernest LeRoy Baker 1873–1963
- Arthur F Baker 1875–1894
- Melyn Elisha Baker 1877–1952
- Lucinda Belle Baker 1878–1879
- Mabel Minnie Baker Leonard 1882–1971
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