Eugene Delson Baker

1879 - 1940  (60 years)

• Name	Eugene Delson Baker
  Birth	3 Sep 1879	Highland, Oakland, MI
  Gender	Male
  Census	1 Jun 1880	Highland, Oakland, MI ; age 1, born MI, living with parents
  Census	30 Apr 1910	Saginaw, Saginaw, MI ; E.D., age 30, born MI, mx1 for 5 yrs, RR conductor, parents born MI/NY
  WW1 Reg Card	11 Sep 1918	Saginaw, Saginaw, MI ; age 39, born 3 Sep 1879, conductor for Pere Marquette RR, NOK Mrs. May Baker (wife)
  Census	14 Jan 1920	Saginaw, Saginaw, MI ; age 40, born MI, railroad conductor, parents born NY/MI
  Census	21 Apr 1930	Saginaw, Saginaw, MI ; age 50, born MI, marr at 25, conductor for steam railroad, parents born MI/MI
  Census	7 Apr 1940	Saginaw, Saginaw, MI ; age 59, born MI, gr8 ed, residing here in 1935, conductor for locomotive railroad co
  Death	24 Aug 1940	Flint, Genesee, MI
  Burial		Highland Cemetery, Highland, MI
  Person ID	I15462	Family Tree
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2022

  
  

  Father	Larkin Baker,   b. 6 Jun 1838, Walworth, Monroe, NY d. 4 Jan 1901, Highland, Oakland, MI (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Emma Jane Lewis,   b. 1843, New York d. 7 Feb 1888 (Age 45 years)
  Marriage	31 Dec 1865
  Family ID	F5837	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lucy Mae Beach,   b. 20 May 1883, Highland, Oakland, MI d. May 1958 (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	17 Oct 1904	Plymouth, Wayne, MI
  Notes	from "Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952" (ancestry.com) On 17 Oct 1904 in Plymouth, Wayne, MI, Eugene D Baker, 26 a conductor residing Saginaw MI, born MI to Larkin and Emma Baker, married May Beach, 21, residing Detroit, born MI to David Beach. 1st marriage for both. Witnesses Louis B Stovall and Lizzie Gleason.
  Family ID	F5846	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2017

  
  

• Photos		Eugene D Baker on Train "This photo, believed to have been taken circa 1910, shows Eugene D. Baker in a derby, coat and bib overalls at the far left . The locomotive pictured, No. 363, was one of a series of 2-8-0 Class C-1 engines built by the American Locomotive Co. that entered service on the Pere Marquette Railroad in 1903."
  		Eugene Delson Baker

  
  

  Headstones

  Eugene D Baker Gravestone HUSBAND / EUGENE D. BAKER / 1879 - 1940 Plot: Lot 56, Grave 6

  
  

• Notes

  from "Michigan Births, 1867-1902" (familysearch.org) Eugene D Baker was born on 3 Sep 1878 in Highland MI to Larkin Baker, a farmer b. NY and Emma J Baker b. NY from "Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007" (ancestry.com) Eugene Delson Baker was born 3 Sep 1879 in Highland, Oakland, MI to Larkin Baker and Emma J Lewis from "Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1950" (ancestry.com) Eugene D Baker, a conductor for the Pere Marquette RR residing Saginaw MI, married to Lucy Mae Baker, born Highland MI to Larkin Baker b. MI and Emma Lewis b. MI, died on 24 Aug 1940 in Flint, Genesee, MI of a coronary thrombosis. Burial on 29 Aug in Highland Cemetery. Informant Mrs. Lucy M. Baker. from "The Highland Township Historical Society" Eugene D. Baker worked for many years as a conductor on the Pere Marquette Railroad's Toledo Division (now the Saginaw Subdivision of CSX) that ran between Saginaw and Toledo, Ohio. As his train passed through Highland he would often wave to family and friends along the tracks.