Pearl Fern Baker ^{2 3 4 5 6 7}

   FamilySearch ID: K8FW-TNP.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1880 in Otterbein, Benton, IN. ^{1 8} The 1880 census recorded Sumner Baker, farmer, 37, living with wife Susan, 28; daughter Pearl, 5; and sons Linnie, 3, and Earnest, 2. Everyone was born in Indiana. Sumner's father was born in Virginia and mother in Massachusetts. Susan's father was born in North Carolina and mother in Kentucky.

2. Residence: on 31 Jan 1933 in Otterbein, Benton, IN. ⁴

3. Cause of Death: Pearl died at St. Elizabeth Hopsital due to hypostatic pneumonia due to cerebral embolism, 22 Jan 1953, Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN. ⁶

4. Residence: 536 South Ninth St., Lafayette, IN on 22 Jan 1953 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN. ¹

5. Residence: Box 318, Otterbein, IN on 22 Jan 1953 in Otterbein, Benton, IN. ⁶

6. Obituary: Journal and Courier: obituary of Pearl B. Johnson on 23 Jan 1953 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN. ¹ ---
Otterbein Woman Dies in Hospital
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Mrs. Pearl B. Johnson, 78, widow of Edward M. Johnson of Otterbein, died at 9:30 p. m. Thursday in St. Elizabeth hospital where she had been a patient since last Sept. 23. She had lived with a brother, Dr. Ernest S. Baker, 536 South Ninth street, for two and a half years, but frequently returned to her home which she maintained at Otterbein. Born at North Manchester, she was a daughter of Sumner W. and Alice (Beeker) Baker, Benton county pioneers. The family moved to Otterbein in 1880. She was graduated from Purdue university, receiving a bachelor of science degree in 1894 and a master's degree in 1896. She also was graduated from the Chicago Music college in 1901 and taught school and music in Bolivar township schools in Benton county until her marriage to Edward Morton Johnson on Jan. 21, 1903. Her husband died in 1944. Mrs. Johnson was an active member of the Otterbein Methodist church and formerly was a district leader of the church women's organizations. She was the last Lafayette district president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society before its organization into the Woman's Society of Christian Service. She also was Spiritual Life secretary of the Lafayette district WSCS for four years and sponsor of the Hawthorne Missionary society, of the Otterbein church for many years. She was a life member of the Purdue Alumni association and a charter member of the Otterbein Woman's Literary club. Surviving besides her brother, Dr. Baker, is a son, Paul B. Johnson of Greenwood, and another brother, Linnaeus E. Baker, Long Beach, Calif.

Pearl married Edward Morton Johnson, son of Benjamin Franklin Johnson and Mary Catherine Fox, on 21 Jan 1903 in Otterbein, Benton, IN.^{1 2 3} (Edward Morton Johnson was born on 14 Jul 1878 in Oxford, Benton, IN,^{2 9} died on 31 Jan 1944 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN ⁹ and was buried on 2 Feb 1944 in Montmorenci: Montmorenci Cemetery, Tippecanoe, IN ^{9 10}.)