Vera (Baker) Dewell (1892 - 1963)

Born 14 Dec 1892 in Darlington, Durham, Ontario, Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Erastus Dewell — married 11 May 1946 (to 22 Aug 1963) in Oshawa, Durham, Ontario, Canada

Died 22 Aug 1963 at age 70 in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Vera Baker was born in 1892 to Tom Baker and Maggie Lammiman at their farm in Darlington, Durham county,^[1][2] one of six children. She was a student at the local elementary school and then attended nearby Bowmanville High School.^[3] In 1912 she was a teacher at the Eldad Church sunday school.^[4] Sometime after this, Vera must have recieved a post secondary education, become a nurse, and moved to New York.

Vera was a Registered Nurse working at Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City before returning home to Solina to help care for her aging parents around 1933.^[5] Following the death of her father, Vera married Sam Dewell on May 11th, 1946.^[6]

There is a record of Vera visiting with her niece Miss Louise Baker of Coburg on September 30, 1962, less than a year before her death.^[7] Vera Dewell died August 28th, 1963, at Bowmanville Memorial Hospital, of heart trouble.^[8] Following Vera's death, her husband donated many books to the Solina library, inscribed in her memory.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ "Ontario Births, 1869-1912", index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FM4G-WMN : accessed 26 Aug 2014), Vera Baker, 1892.
2. ↑ "Canada, Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F2LW-729 : accessed 26 Aug 2014), Vera Baker, 14 Sep 1892; citing Ontario, 14 Sep 1892, reference 022077; FHL microfilm 1846449.
3. ↑ Mr. Baker's Loyalty, The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Ontario, June 3rd, 1908, page 3.
4. ↑ Fraser, page 68.
5. ↑ Thos. Baker, Solina, Passes - Pioneer of Darlington Twp., The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Ontario, January 17th, 1946, page 3.
6. ↑ Marriage - DEWELL-BAKER, The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Ontario, May 16th, 1946, page 6.
7. ↑ Hampton, The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Ontario, October 3rd, 1962, page 19.
8. ↑ Deaths - DEWELL, The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Ontario, August 28th, 1963, page 14.
9. ↑ Fraser, page 326

• Fraser, Marguerite J., A Place Called Solina, Solina Community Library, Solina, Ontario, 1975