Clark Fletcher BAKER
1880 Census Hillsdale Co., MI, (FHL#1254580) p112
I never knew C.F.Baker. References were made to his cantankerous and difficult personality. I have a memory of having visited his farm home when he was an old man and being around an old garage with tools and an old car. I did not feel comfortable. He died when I was about eight.
Aunt Aleen never married. She stayed on the homestead of her father, Clark Fletcher Baker. I believe she took care of him in his later years. As a boy I went with my father to put in floor plugs and electrical outlets in the house. Until that time there had been a single wire from the ceiling in the kitchen on which there was an outlet for a single light bulb. It burned a sixty watt bulb as the only electricity used in the home. She never drove faster than fourty miles an hour but she never drove slower than fourty miles an hour. She had one speed for both country and town. She also didn't stop at stop signs.
He was a farmer and as I grew up his farm was just west of the town of Jonesville on the main highway that went thru the center of town.
He married Hannah Rose Bell 16 Oct 1875 at Moscow, Hillsdale, Mi . Hannah Rose Bell was born at Tekonsha, Calhoun, Mi 13 Mar 1857 daughter of Robert Bell and Lettie Law .
They were the parents of 4
children:
Clark Floyd Baker
born 10 Sep 1883.
Hazel Belle Baker
born 1885.
Bernice Aileen Baker
born 11 Nov 1887.
Lee Alger Baker
born 15 May 1891.
Clark Fletcher Baker died 27 Jun 1941 at Jonesville, Hillsdale, Mi .
Hannah Rose Bell died 25 Oct 1925 at Fayette, Hillsdale, Mi .