Annie Baker
Boyce woman at whose home her mother, Mrs. Catherine Anne Spiker Baker, died at 98 in August 1923.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of August 23, 1923 reports that Mrs. Catherine Anne Spiker Baker, widow of Martin Baker, died at 98 at the home of her daughter, Miss Annie Baker, in Boyce, and names Miss Annie Baker of Boyce first among her four surviving children.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of August 23, 1923 reports that Mrs. Catherine Anne Spiker Baker, widow of Martin Baker, died at 98 at the home of her daughter, Miss Annie Baker, in Boyce, and names Miss Annie Baker of Boyce first among her four surviving children.
What the source supports
That Annie Baker of Boyce was named in 1923 as a daughter of Catherine Anne Spiker Baker, who died at her home.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her mother's obituary. A December 1923 item on a "Mrs. Annie Baker, of Boyce" is not relied on. Her mother has no record here, so no kinship record is made.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The August 23, 1923 obituary of Mrs. Catherine Anne Spiker Baker.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., August 23, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-08-23 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, obituary "Mrs. Catherine Baker Dies at Boyce; Nearly Hundred Years Old"
Relevant passageMrs. Catherine Anne Spiker Baker, widow of the late Martin Baker, a well known Clarke county farmer of a generation ago, and mother of Mr. George Baker, of near Boyce, died at the home of her daughter Miss Annie Baker,in Boyce, last Saturday after reaching the-age of 98 years. ... Four children survive—Miss Annie Baker, of Boyce, Mr. George Baker, a farmer near Boyce, Mrs. Johu Barber, of Darkesville, W. Va., and Mr. W. B. Baker, of Middleway.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-16. How this project checks its sources
Also indexed as: Miss Annie Baker. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.
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