Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Baker, Joseph Clyde 258198

Birth: 05/26/1922 Death: 10/10/1926 Marriage:

Cemetery: See Notes

Record Source: Texas Death Certificate, Researcher-Submitted Info

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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. (12/15/2025)

Notes

DAYTON DAILY NEWS, (Dayton, Ohio), Monday, October 11, 1926, p. 25: “OHIO BOY KILLED Lima Youth Struck by Auto in Texas. PARIS, Tex., Oct. 11. -- (AP) -- Joseph Clyde Baker, 5-year-old son of E. H. Baker of Lima, Oh., was killed Sunday night when struck by an auto on a highway near here. The Baker family, en route to Mexia, Tex., from Lima, had stopped their car near the road and the child was struck when he started to cross the highway. The body will be forwarded to Mexia today for burial.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Joseph Clyde Baker
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 10 Oct 1926
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 26 May 1922
Birthplace: Ohio
Father’s Name: E H Baker
Mother’s Name: Elsia M Binkley
Burial or Removal Place: Mexia, Texas
Certificate Number: 35661
GS Film number: 2114210
Digital Folder Number: 005145341
Image Number: 00809
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K37G-8D3 : 13 March 2018), Elsia M Binkley in entry for Joseph Clyde Baker, 10 Oct 1926; citing certificate number 35661, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,114,210.

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