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Lulu <I>Baker</I> Underwood

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Lulu Baker Underwood

Birth
Villisca, Montgomery County, Iowa, USA
Death
31 Oct 1956 (aged 78)
Maryville, Nodaway County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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The above Lulu Baker was married to Edgar J. Bixler in Villisca, Montgomery County, Iowa on 17 May 1896. They had sons named Delpha and Bert. Lulu and Edgar Bixler were probably divorced sometime before 1903.

Delpha Bixler shows up in the 1910 census with Charley and Lulu Underwood (step-father and mother), along with his brother, in Ross, Taylor County, Iowa. Delpha and Bert also appear in in the 1910 census in Lincoln, Nebraska, visiting with their grandparents, Samuel and Mary Baker.
Edgar Bixler shows in the 1940 census, living in Lincoln, Nebraska with his son, Delpha.

Mrs. Lulu Baker Bixler, following the divorce from Edgar, married Charles F. Underwood (son of Elizabeth Jane (Simmons) and Lemuel Underwood) on 23 Mar 1903 in Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa.

The following was provided by Marty and Harley:

"Underwood, Lydia Louisa “Lulu” Baker Bixler]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday November 8, 1956 [p. 1]
Hold Last Rites For Mrs. Lulu Underwood
Funeral services for Mrs. Lulu Underwood, 76, were held at the Methodist church in Bedford Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Nov. 3. Burial was in the Lexington cemetery, with Rev. Carl Stiefel, minister, in charge.

Mrs. Underwood died in the St. Francis hospital in Maryville, Mo. Wednesday, October 31, just a day after being taken there for care. For the past 17 years she had been keeping house for John Kernen at the farm home north of the Lake of Three Fires park entrance.

Born Lulu Baker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Baker [Mary E. Mitchell] at Woodruff, Kansas, August 28, 1878, she is survived by two brothers Ben Baker of Nodaway, Iowa and Tom Baker of Lincoln, Nebr. Her late husband, Charles [Franklin] Underwood and their two sons preceded her in death."

Note that the record of her marriage to Charles Underwood lists her birthplace as Villisca, Iowa.
The above Lulu Baker was married to Edgar J. Bixler in Villisca, Montgomery County, Iowa on 17 May 1896. They had sons named Delpha and Bert. Lulu and Edgar Bixler were probably divorced sometime before 1903.

Delpha Bixler shows up in the 1910 census with Charley and Lulu Underwood (step-father and mother), along with his brother, in Ross, Taylor County, Iowa. Delpha and Bert also appear in in the 1910 census in Lincoln, Nebraska, visiting with their grandparents, Samuel and Mary Baker.
Edgar Bixler shows in the 1940 census, living in Lincoln, Nebraska with his son, Delpha.

Mrs. Lulu Baker Bixler, following the divorce from Edgar, married Charles F. Underwood (son of Elizabeth Jane (Simmons) and Lemuel Underwood) on 23 Mar 1903 in Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa.

The following was provided by Marty and Harley:

"Underwood, Lydia Louisa “Lulu” Baker Bixler]
Bedford Times-Press
Thursday November 8, 1956 [p. 1]
Hold Last Rites For Mrs. Lulu Underwood
Funeral services for Mrs. Lulu Underwood, 76, were held at the Methodist church in Bedford Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Nov. 3. Burial was in the Lexington cemetery, with Rev. Carl Stiefel, minister, in charge.

Mrs. Underwood died in the St. Francis hospital in Maryville, Mo. Wednesday, October 31, just a day after being taken there for care. For the past 17 years she had been keeping house for John Kernen at the farm home north of the Lake of Three Fires park entrance.

Born Lulu Baker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Baker [Mary E. Mitchell] at Woodruff, Kansas, August 28, 1878, she is survived by two brothers Ben Baker of Nodaway, Iowa and Tom Baker of Lincoln, Nebr. Her late husband, Charles [Franklin] Underwood and their two sons preceded her in death."

Note that the record of her marriage to Charles Underwood lists her birthplace as Villisca, Iowa.


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