Morris Evan Baker

Brief Life History of Morris Evan

When Morris Evan Baker was born on 18 May 1910, in Roy, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Henry LeGrand Baker, was 20 and his mother, Augusta Stegen, was 22. He married Violet Marie Hasty on 21 November 1932, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1949 and Unity, Cassia, Idaho, United States in 1950. He died on 14 September 1982, in Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Pleasant View Cemetery, Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States.

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Morris Evan Baker
1910–1982
Violet Marie Hasty
1908–1989
Marriage: 21 November 1932
Charlene Baker
1933–2011

Sources (28)

  • Morris Baker, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Morris Evins Baker, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
  • Morris Evan Baker, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

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Historical Boundaries 1912: Cassia, Idaho, United States

1929

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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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Morris Baker - Accident and Scar (told by Morris)

She mentioned that at one time they were living in Oakley in the basin, and there I was injured and was in very serious condition. Now, I was only four years old when this occurred. That was in 1914, …

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