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Baker, Mary Helen Shepard   149858
Birth: 12/13/1871    Death: 04/22/1914    Marriage:
Cemetery: Hickory Grove (CENTER SOUTH)
Record Source: Lamar County Record
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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/17/2025)

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Lamar County Death Record Book #2, p. 27, #30: Mrs. W. W. Baker, Petty, Female White Married, born 12/13/1872. Age 42 years, born Miss. Father: H. C. Shepard, born Miss. Mother: is not named. Informant: R. P. Davies, Petty, Texas. She died 22 April 1914 of General Congestion. Buried at Hickory Grove by Wess Reed, Honey Grove. Original record stated 1872 as birth year. The tombstone stated 1872.

From an old scrapbook of newspaper clippings and obituaries collected by Ada Bradley Yates of High community, transcribed by Phillip Rutherford. Unnamed, newspaper circa 1920: Helen Sheppard Baker - Mrs. Baker, 41, married W. W. Baker 41 [sic] years ago. They had three children, all dying in infancy. She is buried at Hickory Grove Cemetery.

She is on the same stone with B. N. Baker.

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