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Continued: Henry Baker registered for the draft June 5, 1917 in McLennan County Texas. He listed his address as RFD no. 1 Crawford, Texas. He listed his birthplace as Manchester, Tennessee. He was married with two children. He was five feet ten inches tall with a slender build, light brown hair and brown eyes.
1920 McLennan County Texas January 15, 1920 Henry Baker head 25 TN TN TN Bertha wife 24 TX GA GA Florence dau 5 TX TN TX Howard son 3 TX TN TX Lynett dau 1 TX TN TX
1930 Census McLennan County Texas dwelling 76 family 78 Henry Baker head 34 TN TN TN married at 19 Bertha M wife 34 TX GA GA married at 19 Florence dau 15 TX TN TX Howard son 13 TX TN TX Linette dau 11 TX TN TX William son 9 TX TN TX Benjamin son 7 TX TN TX Elford R son 3 TX TN TX Melvin son 2 TX TN TX
1940 census McLennan County Texas - outside McGregor Henry Baker head 44 TN widow Farmer Robert Balker son 17 TX Elfred Baker son 14 TX Melvin Baker son 11 TX Norma Jean Baker dau 5 TX
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Continued: Waco Times-Herald December 23, 1950 TWO KILLED BY CAR HERE - Two persons, a man and a woman, were killed early Saturday morning in an automobile-pedestrian accident in the 1200 Block of LaSalle Street. Dead were Henry Baker, 56, a civilian employee at Fort Hood who was spending the Christmas holidays with children in Waco, and a woman tentatively identified as Mrs. Gaye Perry Chapman, about 50, address unknown. Walter L. Miller, 17, of 1912 Burnett Avenue, told police officers Louis Seeley and E.L. Harris that he was driving west on LaSalle and that the man and the woman entered the street from behind a truck and walked into the path of his automobile. Both were dead on arrival at Hillcrest hospital, were they were taken by a Waco funeral home ambulance. Their deaths brought this years total within the county to 39 and to 6 within the city limits. Funeral arrangements for both have not been completed. Baker is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Pat Richards, 1516 Mitchell Avenue, in whose home he was visiting. Five sons. R.B. Baker of 1916 Pine, Melvin Baker of 1516 Mitchell Avenue, Roy(sic) Baker of 1618 South Fourth, Howard Baker of Shelbyville, Tennessee and J.W. Baker stationed with the army in San Antonio, and two other daughters, Miss Norma Jean Baker, 1516 Mitchell Avenue and Mrs. Victor Queen of Loving New Mexico.
Waco Tribune Herald Sunday December 24, 1950 HENRY BAKER DIES IN HOSPITAL - Funeral services for Henry Baker, 55, of Fort Hood and father of five Wacoans will be held at the Shilo Church Sunday at 3. P.M. Reverend W.W. Magness will officiate assisted by Rev. Roy L. Smith. Burial will be in the Crawford Cemetery. Mr. Baker died in a local hospital at 5 P.M. Saturday. Survivors are: five sons; R.B. Baker, E.R. Baker and Melvin Baker all of Waco, J.W. Baker of San Antonio, Howard Baker of Shelbyville, Tennessee; three daughters, Mrs. Pat Richards and Miss Norma Jean Baker both of Waco and Mrs. Victor Queen of Loving New Mexico; three brothers, Sam Baker of Shelbyville Tennessee, Leonard Baker and John Baker both of Crawford; two sisters, Mrs. Mollie Henley, Deckard Tennessee and Mrs. Martha Dodson of Henshaw Tennessee
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Continued: The State of Texas, McLennan County To any regularly licensed or ordained minister of the gospel, Jewish rabbi, or to any legally authorized officer --Greeting: You, or either of you, are hereby authorized and empowered to solemnize the rites of matrimony between Mr. Henry Baker and Miss Bertha Plemons. In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and the impress of my official seal, at my office in the city of Waco on this the 27th day of December 1913. -- J.W. Baker Clerk County Court, McLennan County Texas, By Claude Miller Deputy. I hereby certify that the within license was executed by me, joining the within named parties in the holy union of matrimony on this 28th day of December 1913.-- signed A.C. Gustaous Reverend Seminary Hill Fort Worth Texas. -- The within license returned into my office, this 31st day of December 1913 -- J.W. Baker Clerk County Court McLennan County Texas.
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