Person

George Baker

Farmer near Boyce named in August 1923 as a son of Mrs. Catherine Anne Spiker Baker, who died at 98.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of August 23, 1923 reports the death of Mrs. Catherine Anne Spiker Baker, widow of Martin Baker, at 98, and names her son George Baker, a farmer near Boyce, among her four surviving children.

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What the source supports

That George Baker, a farmer near Boyce, was named in 1923 as a son of Catherine Anne Spiker Baker.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. He is known here only from his mother's obituary. His mother has no record here, so no kinship record is made.

Source

Reporting

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 passage

Mrs. 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 source

Source family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

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