individual record
id | first | middle | last | dob | dod | cod |
| 3 | M. | Frances "Frankey" | Baker | 8/15/1858 |
veteran | exhumed | purchaser | cemetery |
| FALSE | Adams Street |
lot | plot | ||||||
| R12 G4 |
relations |
| James V. Baker (father, b. 1 May 1809, d. 13 Feb 1865) Julia Ann Baker (mother, b. Aug 1808, d. 3 Feb 1881) Mary Baker Brown (sister, b. c1829) Lyman Baker (brother, b. c1832, d. 18 Feb 1887) Juliette Bevans Baker (sister-in-law, married to Lyman) Lucy Baker Woodbridge (sister, b. c1835) Rosa Jennie Baker Lyman (sister, b. c1842) |
comments |
| Frankey was born M. Frances Baker. She was the daughter of prominent Berea citizens James V. and Julia Ann Baker. Berea's list of burials for 1858 says "Aug. 16 M. Frances daughter of J. V. Baker [age] 10". Her father bought lot 105 for her, and then bought lot 104 for himself and his wife. For more about the family, see entries for James V. Baker (no. 4) and Julia Ann Baker (no. 5). James, Julia, and Frankey Baker are still buried in Adams St. Cemetery. Their tombstones were described in 1904 as "Frankey Baker, son [sic] of Jas. V. and Julia A. Baker, d. Aug. 15, 1858, ae. 10 years" and "James V. Baker, d. Feb. 9, 1865, ae 55 yrs. 9 mo. 8 da." and "Julia A. Baker, d. Feb. 3, 1881 ae 72 yrs". In 1934, the stones were transcribed as "James V. Baker, died Feb 9, 1865, ae 55 yrs, 9 m, 8 d; Julia A., Feb 3, 1881, age 72 yrs; Frankey, died Aug 15, 1853, age 10 yrs". In 2007, the family pillar was found to be in good condition, of marble but very dirty and somewhat worn. The inscriptions were still legible. There are small individual headstones reading "J.V.B." and "J.A.B." and a lot marker with hand-carved inscription "104." Frankey's individual headstone, of white marble, is to the west and now appears to say "FRANKEY. DIED Aug 15, 1858. 6 yrs". A marble footstone says "FRANKEY" across the top; it was broken and reattached to the base with a black rubber cement. |
sources |
| One World Tree, James V. Baker, Ancestry.com 1850 US Federal census, James Baker household, Series: M432 Roll: 673 Page: 183 "List of Burials and Names 1856-1871," City of Berea Records 1860 US Federal Census, James B. Baker household, series M653, roll 954, p. 126; Ancestry.com "Number of Burial lots and prices," Adams Street Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society. Julia Ann Baker obituary, The Berea Advertiser, 10 February 1881, p.3 c.4 E. S. Loomis and D. T. Gould, "Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery," 1904, Berea Historical Society "Cuyahoga Cemetery Inscriptions," Vol. I, compiled by the Western Reserve Historical Society Lyman and Juliette Bevans Baker monument, Woodvale Cemetery, Middleburg Heights, OH. Frankey Baker tombstone photograph, Jeremy Feador, 2007. |