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Mrs. Alice BAKER a prominent Cove woman, passed away yesterday evening following an illness of about two weeks. Funeral services will be held at the Snodgrass and Zimmerman mortuary tomorrow at 10:30 a. m. standard time, after which the body will be sent to her old home in Indianapolis, Ind. for burial.

Mrs. BAKER was born Mar. 31, 1887 and was 43 years one month and 22 days of age. She is survived by her husband Guy BAKER, and a sister and brother in Indianapolis. She was a member of Cove Eastern Star.

Alice BAKER, 89, a long-time Summerville resident, died Friday at the La Grande Nursing Center.

Mrs. BAKER was born Jan. 20, 1898, at Pendleton, to Alexander and Mary Alice (CARGILL) HUDSON. On July 1, 1920, she married Ray Orien BAKER. He died on January 14, 1975.

Mrs. BAKER graduated from Monmouth Teachers College and later attended the University of Oregon. She taught school in Ukiah, Hermiston, Rieth, Milton-Freewater, Stanfield and Cove.

Survivors include a brother, Elmer HUDSON, Aloha; sister, Mildred ERWIN, Salem; and other relatives and friends.

A sister, Mable FARNAM, and brothers John, Robert and James HUDSON, died earlier.

The funeral will be at 1 p. m. Wednesday at Daniels Valley Funeral Chapel with Jack Hart of the First Christian Church officiating. Concluding services will follow at the Summerville Cemetery.

Amy BARKER, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. I. BARKER, was born in Minnesota, February 27, 1891 and died at the G. M. BAKER home on March 2nd, 1922, after a short illness. At the age of sixteen she came with her parents from Minnesota to Pasco, Wash. where they resided for two years, then coming to Cove, where her education was completed and she was married to Roy J. BAKER on November 3rd, 1912 when they made a permanent home on a farm two miles north of Cove. Mrs. BAKER leaves her husband Roy J. BAKER, two sons, Claude Edward, age 7, Robert Orien age 4, and a daughter, Lois Jean, age 8 months, her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. R. I. BARKER, four brothers, Ray BARKER of Salem, Guy Herbert and Gordon of Cove, also five sisters, Mrs. R. H. DANIEL and Nellie, Lura, Berta and Dorothy of Cove, besides a host of friends for it can be said "to know her was to love her".

Mrs. BAKER united with the M. E. church in 1910 and has ever been a faithful and willing worker in all Christian work. She was also a member of Mt. Fannie grange and at the time of her death held the office of Worthy Lecturer, one of the most important offices of the order.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Loree at the M. E. church at 10:30 a. m. Saturday morning and the remains were laid to rest in Cove cemetery. She is not dead her body is at rest. Her spirit inhabits the home of the blest. Nay, now but do not weep; God has given her rest, has given her sleep. She is now among God's jewels rare, shining with luster, bright and fair.

Mrs. Cassie Florina Banton, 65, La Grande, died at a local hospital yesterday afternoon. Funeral services will be held at 2 PM Saturday in the Dempsey-Snodgrass Chapel with the Rev. C. Kopp officiating. Burial will be in the city cemetery.

Mrs. Banton was born in La Grande, Jan. 10, 1894 and was a resident here her entire life. She married Claude Baker in 1914 and the couple had three children. Mr. Baker died in 1928. In 1941 she married Eugene Banton who was a victim of the Union county powder house explosion in April 1955.

She is survived by two daughters, Lorna Baker of La Grande and Mrs. Mary C. Noe of San Jose, Calif.; one son, Claude Baker of Oakland, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. J. Y. Walnum of Island City and Mrs. Charles C. Bull of La Grande; one brother Ronald Goodnough of Salem; and one granddaughter.

Earl Melvin BAKER, 72, of Union, died at a local hospital following an extended illness on Thursday, April 29. He was a retired laborer who was born in Cove April 4, 1898 and had lived in the Cove-Union area all his life.

Pastor B. B. Robeson officiated at funeral services at 10:30 a.m. Friday May 1, 1970, in Dempsey's Funeral Chapel. Interment followed at Cove Cemetery.

Surviving Mr. BAKER are two sons, Everett BAKER, Pendleton, and George M. BAKER, Everett, Wash.; daughter Mrs. June HARRIS, Hermiston; two brothers, Ray BAKER, Summerville, and Roy BAKER, Cove; 15 grandchildren and two great grandchildren besides other relatives and friends.

Elizabeth, nine-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.D. Baker of Baker, was drowned in the natatorium of that place shortly after the noon hour Sunday. There were no witnesses to the accident which caused the death.

The young girl and her brother, who had been in the water for some time were about to get out and dress at the time of the accident. The two were running a race to the side of the pool to see who could get dressed in the fastest time, the boy going to the men's dressing room and the girl to the other side of the pool.

It is thought that when she reached the side of the pool and discarded her water wings, which was the usual custom, she became overbalanced and fell backwards into the water, striking her head on the bottom with such force as to shock her unconscious or to kill her. A large bruise on the side of her head leads to this conclusion. She had not been on the bottom of the pool for a great length of time when found by a small boy who was diving near the place where she went down.

Funeral services for George M. BAKER, 86 year--old Cove retired farmer, will be held in the Methodist church in Cove at 2 p. m. tomorrow. BAKER, who died in Pendleton Wednesday following a long illness, will be buried beside his wife in Cove cemetery.

BAKER was born in Wisconsin, November 8, 1859, has been a resident of Union County 51 years.

He is survived by three sons, Earl of Pendleton, Ray of Summerville, and Roy of Cove, in addition to seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

Mrs. George BAKER, a resident of Cove for over 40 years, died yesterday at her home there. She was past 77 years old and had been invalid for several years.

Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church in Cove Thursday at 2 p. m. Rev. C. E. Callahan will officiate.

Mrs. BAKER was born Hannah F. SCHOONHOVEN, Nov. 8, 1861; at Maiden Rock, Wis. Her parents moved to Osakis, Minn. when she was nine and resided there many years.

She was married to Ed H. SAUNDERS, Watford, Ontario, June 29, 1879 and had one child, Clark Edward, who now resides in California. SAUNDERS died in 1882.

She was married to George M. BAKER, Osakis, Feb. 12, 1889. In 1895 they moved to Oregon, where she lived the remainder of her life. Four children were born, Earl M. and Roy J. of Cove, Ray O. of Summerville and Eva M. who died seven years ago.

Besides her husband and children, survivors include eight grandchildren; one great grand-daughter; two brothers, Orien of Portland and Henry of California.

She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for 60 years.

Guy BAKER, former Cove resident, died early Sunday morning in the Veteran's hospital in Walla Walla, where he had been the past three years. He is an uncle of Roy J. BAKER.

A baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. Guy BAKER at the Wonderlick hospital May 8. The little one did not live and was laid to rest in Cove cemetery at 2 o'clock Friday.

The death of Mrs. Joe Baker, wife of attorney Joe Baker of La grande, occured at her son's home near Wallowa the latter part of last week. The remains were conveyed to La Grande and interred in the Masonic cemetery Sunday.

John Baker, one among the very earliest settlers in Grande Ronde valley, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. F. P. Childers, yesterday before noon.  He was 81 years of age last March.  He has been in poor health of late and this coupled with advanced age left little hope for recovery.

The deceased was a member of a very prominent family who reached this valley after a long and tedious journey with ox teams in the late fall of 1862.  This band of homesteaders passed the following winter in a community camp, which was established near the base of Mt. Emily.  In this vicinity Mr. Baker took up a homestead which was the family abiding place for a
number of years, but later they moved to La Grande which has long been their home.  His wife died several years ago.  The surviving children are Mrs. Etta Wines, of Portland, Mrs. Childers, and Charles Baker of La Grande.

The funeral will be held from the Henry chapel at 2 o' clock Monday, overlooking the schools of the Elgin…(last line of text unreadable).

La Grande Star: Mrs. John Baker, wife of John Baker, of this city, an old and highly respected pioneer of Oregon
and Union county passed away at an early hour yesterday morning at the home of her son-in-law, Frank P.
Childers, after a lingering illness of many weeks duration. Apoplexy and old age were responsible. Mrs. Baker
commenced to sink rapidly about midnight and passed away at an early hour in the morning.

Mrs. Baker leaves behind to mourn her departure, her husband, John Baker, the grand jury bailiff, a son Charles
Baker , and Mrs. W.S. Wines. Mrs. Baker’s demise was not unexpected as she was quite aged and has been ill for
some time. The funeral will be held from the Childers home on Washington Avenue at 2 o’clock this afternoon.
Dr. J. D. Gillian officiating.

There is in the death of Mrs. Baker a story of perseverance and fortitude that only were made possible in the
pioneer days of long ago. In 1862 Mrs. Baker crossed the plains, not in a Pullman coach, but at the rear of an old
fashioned prairie schooner. Leaving her home in Sandusky, Iowa, in that year, she actually walked from that place
every step of the way across the plains and mountains to the Grande Ronde valley, carrying with her at the time
her young babe, who is now Mrs. Childers, and only placing it in the schooner to ride from time to time. All this
distance she made on foot with the exception of about 20 miles. But few pioneers of today can claim credit for a
feat like the one accomplished by Mrs. Baker and it is only through her bravery, pluck and determination was
such an achievement possible.

Sacajawea’s world-famed feat of guiding Lewis and Clarke, the intrepid explorers to the Pacific northwest carrying a papoose on her back the while, was emulated and in some respects outdistanced in 1862 by a white woman who died in La Grande today.

Mrs. John Baker, highly esteemed pioneer of Oregon and Union county, who passed away at an early hour this morning at the home of her son-in-law, Frank P. Childers, after a lingering illness of may weeks.  Apoplexy and old age were responsible.  She sank rapidly about midnight and by an early hour in the day was dead, leaving a sorrowing husband, John Baker, the
grand jury bailiff, a son, Charles Baker, a local tailor, and two daughters, Mrs. Frank Childers and Mrs. W. S. Wines.  Her condition has long been such as would not give hope of final recovery.  The funeral will be held from the Childers home on Washington avenue at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon.

Many hardy pioneers boast, and rightfully, that they crossed the plains in a prairie schooner, but the late Mrs. Baker actually walked from Sandusky, Iowa to La Grande, landing here in 1862.  Not only did she walk with the men of the party, but she carried a baby in her arms most of the way, allowing the little babe – which has since grown up to be Mrs. Childers of
this city, to ride at times and when the baby grew restless it was the sturdy mother with her face toward the setting sun that caressed and soothed the little one as she pressed on.  It is said positively that Mrs. Baker rode less than 20 miles of the entire distance across the plains.

Robert Orien BAKER, the four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. BAKER, passed away at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. BAKER, at 5 o'clock March 7th, 1922, from pneumonia. He was born near Cove, January 27, 1918, and was four years, one month and 11 days old. His mother, Mrs. R. J. BAKER, was laid to rest on March 4th, and he leaves his father, a brother and sister, besides other relatives. The remains were laid to rest beside his mother in Cove cemetery at 11:30 Wednesday morning.

Funeral services for Roy J. BAKER, 84, Cove, will be held 2 p.m. Saturday at Dempsey's Funeral Chapel. He died Wednesday at Valley View Manor following an extended illness.

Rev. Paul O. Jewell of the First Methodist Church will officiate the services. Vault interment will follow at the Cove Cemetery.

BAKER was born Feb. 1, 1890 at Osakis, Minn., the son of George BAKER and Hannah SAUNDERS. They moved to Oregon in 1895, stopping in Union where they lived a short while. Later the family moved to the Cove area onto the old PAYNE farm now known as the Marvin CHILDERS farm. BAKER graduated from Cove High School in 1912.

During part of 1905 and 1906, BAKER was a substitute mail carrier to Nibley. He also hauled cream from Cove to Union. He married Amy R. BARKER in November 1912 at Cove and she preceeded him in death in 1922. In 1916, he purchased the old DAUGHTERY ranch from Dr. CORPE, where he and his family lived until he sold it in 1952 and moved into Cove. His main interest were cattle and sheep production.

BAKER was a member of the Cove Methodist Church; Odd Fellows Lodge, of which he was a past grand master; Rebekah Lodge; and the Farm Bureau. He was the first president of the Union County Cattlemen's Association in 1948 and was the Union County Catttlemen of the Year in 1953.

BAKER is survived by a son, Claude E. of Cove; daughter, Mrs. John (Lois Jean) KIRBY of Union; stepson Almon GEISS of Portland; six grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and other relatives. He was preceded in death by one son.

Mrs. Sarah A. Baker, former Elgin resident, but a resident of Freewater the past several years, died in a Walla Walla hospital July 3. Funeral services and interment will be at Freewater July 5.

Mrs. Baker was born in Lampasa, Tex., November 16, 1868. She came to Oregon with members of her family who settled in the present location of Elgin in 1876. She was then only 12 years of age, and lived here until 1937, when she moved to the Freewater district. Her husband, Allen Baker, member of a local pioneer family, died at Freewater in 1937.

Mrs. Baker is survived by four children, Mrs. H. G. Masterson, Freewater; James N. Baker, Freewater; J. . Baker, Los Angeles and Mrs. H. F. Dawartz, Portland. She leaves also four brothers, W. M. Horrell, Halfway, Ore.; B. F. and A. E. Horrell, Freewater, and Merrit Horrell, Eureka Calif. Seven grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren also survive.

Vernon Baker was fatally shot at about twelve o’clock Monday night by Harry Swisher near Paradise. According to Swisher, who has recently purchased the Bob Turner place, he suspected that someone from the Joseph creek region was trying to make way with some of his mules, and started out toward Joseph creek, accompanied by Erick Smutler. They soon came face to face with Vernon Baker with three of Swisher’s mules, one of which was packed. The men attempted to take Baker back to Flora, but Baker resisted and declared the mules to be his own. They followed him to the Ed Enyart place, where they stopped him, Smutler keeping him covered with a revolver, while Swisher went into the Enyart house to phone for the sheriff. As he came out of the house, Baker put spurs to his horse to escape, Swisher called for him to stop, and when he did not he opened fire; the second shot hitting him in the back of the head. He died soon after, a sheet was placed over his body, and the sheriff called.