Obit: Baker, Josiah (1833 – 1934)

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Surnames: BAKER BLISS PEDRICK LINCOLN YESKE

---Source: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark County, Wis.) 11/08/1934

Baker, Josiah (11 Aug. 1833 – 1 Nov. 1934)

Josiah Baker, a Civil War veteran of Abbotsford, died at the home of his son, Seth, in that village last Thursday night, pneumonia being the cause of his death.

The deceased was born in Chautauqua county, N.Y., August 11, 1833, when there were only twenty-four states in the Union. He spent most of his boyhood at Counties Port, Pa., and in his early twenties he lived at Madison.

He enlisted in Company C of the thirty-seventh regiment of the Wisconsin infantry as a musician. He was married July 25, 1865 to Miss Elizabeth Bliss of New York and three months later he was discharged from the army at Delancy House, D. C. After the war they located at Loyal, and in 1908 at Arpin. Mrs. Baker died in 1911, and in 1918 Mr. Baker moved to Abbotsford to reside with his son. He is survived by nine children and an adopted daughter, Elmer Baker, Arpin; Mrs. Byron Pedrick, Dancy; Mrs. Elizabeth Lincoln, Monrovia, Ca.; Charles Baker, Puyallup, Wash.; Newell Baker, Menasha; Alvin Baker, Mosinee; Arthur Baker, Marinesco, Mich.; William Baker, Melrose; Seth Baker, Abbotsford, and Mrs. Arthur Yeske, Tavera. There are ninety-seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.