OBIT: William J. BAKER, 1880, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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HOLLIDAYSBURG HAPPENINGS.
Death of Willie J. Baker.

  On Wednesday morning William J. Baker, a promising pupil of the 
public high school and youngest child of Mr. Samuel Baker, died of that 
terrible scourge, scarlet fever.  Willie Baker, as he was familiarly 
called, was born on the 15th day of December, 1865, and consequently 
was within a month of being 15 years of age, having contracted the 
disease on last Saturday.  He was a manly, intelligent youth, the idol 
of his family and a general favorite.  He was gifted with a fine voice 
and the promise of being a great singer.  He --- in several Sabbath 
school and other local exhibitions in Condron's Opera house, and was 
highly complimented.  He was truly a noble and promising boy, and --- 
can only commend his sorrowing parents and friends to Him who has 
claimed him as his own.  The funeral will take place to-day at 3 
o'clock from his father's residence on Front street.  Interment in the 
Lutheran cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, November 11, 1880