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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. (12/16/2025)

THE DETROIT NEWS-HERALD, 16 Apr 1936 from microfilm in Clarksville Library: “Paris News -- Two year old Roy Earl Baker, unnoticed by his playmates near his home at Taylortown, fell into the gin pond and was drowned about 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon. When the body was found in the pool, 2 physicians were summoned but resuscitation efforts failed. The child’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Baker, a brother Jerry and 2 grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T. Baker of Rockford survive. Service was held Friday morning at 11 o’clock at Rockford Cemetery where interment was made. Emberson-Brown-Roden funeral home had charge of the arrangements.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Ray Earl Baker
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 09 Apr 1936
Event Place: Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 30 Nov 1933
Birthplace: Texas
Father’s Name: Raymond Baker
Mother’s Name: Eva Broughton
Certificate Number: 21727
GS Film number: 2116864
Digital Folder Number: 005144813
Image Number: 00243
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KSBL-DQ4 : 5 December 2014), Ray Earl Baker, 09 Apr 1936; citing certificate number 21727, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,116,864.

Buried next to Sidney A. McFarland.