Louisa Jane "Lida" Baker

Brief Life History of Louisa Jane "Lida"

When Louisa Jane "Lida" Baker was born on 19 May 1876, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Joseph Martin Baker, was 27 and her mother, Leah Douglas, was 26. She married Frank Qualls about 1892, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas, United States in 1940 and Trumann, Poinsett, Arkansas, United States in 1985. She died on 12 July 1945, in Mount Vernon Township, Faulkner, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Mount Vernon, Faulkner, Arkansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Cyrenus Ray "Cy" Davidson
1868–1941
Louisa Jane "Lida" Baker
1876–1945
Marriage: 5 May 1895
Avery Hue "Frank" Qualls
1891–1918
Lillie Gertrude Davidson
1898–
Joseph "Joe" Monroe Davidson
1899–1961
Thomas Edgar Davidson
1904–1971
Virgil Oran Davidson
1907–1972
James Roy Davidson
1907–1950
Floy Mae Davidson
1911–1940
Rosalee Davidson
1912–1983
Ollie Marie Davidson
1916–1988

Sources (16)

  • Lida Davidson, "United States Census, 1940"
  • E.J. Qualls, "Arkansas Marriages, 1837-1944"
  • Lydia Jane Baker Davidson, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic

When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name, from Middle English bakere, Old English bæcere, a derivative of bacan ‘to bake’. It may have been used for someone whose special task in the kitchen of a great house or castle was the baking of bread, but since most humbler households did their own baking in the Middle Ages, it may also have referred to the owner of a communal oven used by the whole village. The right to be in charge of this and exact money or loaves in return for its use was in many parts of the country a hereditary feudal privilege. Compare Miller . Less often the surname may have been acquired by someone noted for baking particularly fine bread or by a baker of pottery or bricks.

Americanized form (translation into English) of surnames meaning ‘baker’, for example Dutch Bakker , German Becker and Beck , French Boulanger and Bélanger (see Belanger ), Czech Pekař, Slovak Pekár, and Croatian Pekar .

History: Baker was established as an early immigrant surname in Puritan New England. Among others, two men called Remember Baker (father and son) lived at Woodbury, CT, in the early 17th century, and an Alexander Baker arrived in Boston, MA, in 1635.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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