Joseph F. BAKER

                      Palm Section C Row 4 Grave 23

Her name could have been Ada Russel Ballow.  She was living with sister
Eugenia in 1880.
She had 3 or 4 boys (Roy, Charlie, David)  - Ada was 16 years old on the 1880 census.  At her marriage to Myron B. Russel on 25 Mar 1877 she was 15 years old.

Obituary  taken from Richmond Daily Independent Monday, November 28, 1932
Rites Honor Late Mrs. Joseph Baker
Rev. J.A.B. Fry, pastor of Epworth University Methodist church, South, of Berkeley, officiated at funeral rites this morning for the late Mrs. Elsie A. Baker, who died Saturday morning at the family home, 126 Seventeenth Street.  Mrs. Kenneth Wallace sang, "Face to Face" and "In the Garden" accompanied by Mrs. Myrtle Smith.  Serving as pallbearers were Homer Howard, William Baxter, Oscar Long, W.M. Pennington, William Campbell and Peter Dooling.  Burial in Sunset View cemetery followed the service which was held from the Ryan funeral home.  Deceased was the wife of Joseph Baker, Richmond gardener.

Death certificate obtained from Martinez, Contra Costa, California August 2001
Elsie Adaline Baker - residence 126 - 17th Street - female - white - married - husband Joseph Baker - born 20 June 1861 age 71 yrs 5 months 6 days - housewife - born Stockton, California - father John F. Ballon - birthplace Unknown born France - mother Eveline Womble born Unknown, Virginia - living in Richmond 12 yrs at time of death - living in California for life - informant Joseph Baker 126 - 17th Street, Richmond, California - buried Sunset View Cemetery 28 November 1932 - embalmer Charles Ryan of Ryan Funeral Home, Richmond California - died 26 November 1932 of chronic parenchymatous nephritis and uremia.

Buried Sunset View Cemetery, El Cerrito, Contra Costa, California 94530 - Palm Section C Row 4 Grave 23 - Elsie A. Baker - Date of Interment 11/28/32 - Cemetery records show that Elsie is buried in a plot owned by Mary Catherine Ross - There is no headstone - There is a headstone on the left of Elsie that shows a Baker child - It is the headstone for Hannah Baker who died 11/24/1913, who died the same day as another infant in the same grave named Arven Oakes Baker (Jr.) infant.  An obituary that was sent by Sunset View shows Arven Oakes Baker was not an infant, but was instead 25 years 11 months 21 days old.

Newspaper article received from Jeannette Tredway, from Family Bible of her mother -
Attend Sisters Funeral
Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Ballou, Mrs. Ila Castillo and Mrs. Ava Bacciarini attended the funeral services in Richmond Monday morning of Mr. Ballou's sister Mrs. Adaline Baker.  Deceased was a native of Stockton and had been a resident of Richmond for the past 20 years.

Obituary - Richmond Daily Independent - Saturday, 26 November 1932
Mrs. Jos. Baker Called By Death
Culminating an illness of five years' duration, death this morning claimed Mrs. Elsie Adalie Baker, wife of Joseph Baker, Richmond gardener.  The end came at the family home, 126 Seventeenth Street.  For the past two months her condition had declined rapidly.  The body is at the Ryan funeral home where funeral services are to held at 10:30 Monday morning.  She will be laid to rest in Sunset View Cemetery.  Deceased was a native of Stockton and had been a resident of Richmond for the past 20 ears.  During that time she made many friends who will mourn her passing.  She was formerly affiliated with the Women of Moose of Richmond.

Besides her husband, Mrs. Baker leaves three children - Leroy Wilcox of Lodi, Charles Wilcox of Albany and David Wilcox of Berkeley; a sister, Mrs. E.C. Loimaz of Piedmont; and three grand children, Josephine, Doreen Mae and Jewel Joyce Wilcox and a brother, Edward C. Ballou, of Ripon.