Ruth Baker Chilton Times January 8, 1916
On Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Charles Baker, who had been hovering between life and death for some days, passed away at the Washington House in this city, at which place she had been receiving care and nursing since fracturing her hip in a fall at her home in Gravesville on December 1st.
Ruth Coyhis, daughter of the late Benjamin Coyhis, a pioneer settler of this county, was born in the town of Brothertown on February 16th, 1843. In 1879 on February 16th, she was married at Gravesville to Charles Baker, and with the exception of some years spent on the Zeilley farm in Chilton town, that village has since been her home. Of later years she has been living alone, having little communication with her neighbors. On December 1st, 1915, while doing her housework she fell in some unknown manner and fractured her hip and being unable to call for help she lay there without warmth or food until found three days later by Dr. Bolton. She was taken to the Washington House and given care and attention but her age and weakened condition were against her and she lost strength rapidly until relieved from suffering by death.
The funeral was held on Tuesday from the M. E. Church at Brothertown with interment in the Brothertown Cemetery. The deceased is survived by one son, Edward Baker and a sister, Mrs. George Baker.
On Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Charles Baker, who had been hovering between life and death for some days, passed away at the Washington House in this city, at which place she had been receiving care and nursing since fracturing her hip in a fall at her home in Gravesville on December 1st.
Ruth Coyhis, daughter of the late Benjamin Coyhis, a pioneer settler of this county, was born in the town of Brothertown on February 16th, 1843. In 1879 on February 16th, she was married at Gravesville to Charles Baker, and with the exception of some years spent on the Zeilley farm in Chilton town, that village has since been her home. Of later years she has been living alone, having little communication with her neighbors. On December 1st, 1915, while doing her housework she fell in some unknown manner and fractured her hip and being unable to call for help she lay there without warmth or food until found three days later by Dr. Bolton. She was taken to the Washington House and given care and attention but her age and weakened condition were against her and she lost strength rapidly until relieved from suffering by death.
The funeral was held on Tuesday from the M. E. Church at Brothertown with interment in the Brothertown Cemetery. The deceased is survived by one son, Edward Baker and a sister, Mrs. George Baker.
Ruth Baker Chilton Times January 8, 1916
On Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Charles Baker, who had been hovering between life and death for some days, passed away at the Washington House in this city, at which place she had been receiving care and nursing since fracturing her hip in a fall at her home in Gravesville on December 1st.
Ruth Coyhis, daughter of the late Benjamin Coyhis, a pioneer settler of this county, was born in the town of Brothertown on February 16th, 1843. In 1879 on February 16th, she was married at Gravesville to Charles Baker, and with the exception of some years spent on the Zeilley farm in Chilton town, that village has since been her home. Of later years she has been living alone, having little communication with her neighbors. On December 1st, 1915, while doing her housework she fell in some unknown manner and fractured her hip and being unable to call for help she lay there without warmth or food until found three days later by Dr. Bolton. She was taken to the Washington House and given care and attention but her age and weakened condition were against her and she lost strength rapidly until relieved from suffering by death.
The funeral was held on Tuesday from the M. E. Church at Brothertown with interment in the Brothertown Cemetery. The deceased is survived by one son, Edward Baker and a sister, Mrs. George Baker.
On Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Charles Baker, who had been hovering between life and death for some days, passed away at the Washington House in this city, at which place she had been receiving care and nursing since fracturing her hip in a fall at her home in Gravesville on December 1st.
Ruth Coyhis, daughter of the late Benjamin Coyhis, a pioneer settler of this county, was born in the town of Brothertown on February 16th, 1843. In 1879 on February 16th, she was married at Gravesville to Charles Baker, and with the exception of some years spent on the Zeilley farm in Chilton town, that village has since been her home. Of later years she has been living alone, having little communication with her neighbors. On December 1st, 1915, while doing her housework she fell in some unknown manner and fractured her hip and being unable to call for help she lay there without warmth or food until found three days later by Dr. Bolton. She was taken to the Washington House and given care and attention but her age and weakened condition were against her and she lost strength rapidly until relieved from suffering by death.
The funeral was held on Tuesday from the M. E. Church at Brothertown with interment in the Brothertown Cemetery. The deceased is survived by one son, Edward Baker and a sister, Mrs. George Baker.
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