Mary Alice Morgan Baker ~ Index
Mary Alice Morgan, daughter of Thomas Morgan and Ann Roberts, was born 6 March 1855 at Merthyr, Tidfil, Glamorganshire, South Wales. She joined the Mormon church in her native Wales and emigrated to Utah in 1875. She married Joseph Baker on 26 July 1875 in the old Endowment House in Salt Lake City.
She was a woman of stalwart character and pleasing personality. She had a keen sense of humor and a typical Welch temper, but she was of a kindly disposition. She was a good cook whose biscuits and pies were delicious.
When she married Joseph Baker, his first family numbered eight children one of who was Julia Alline Kimball. She had twelve children of her own, six boys and six girls. She also reared her sister's daughter, Mary Geneva Morris. Besides all this, she took in her daughter Alice's two sons and cared for them. She performed all of this labor with fortitude and determination.
Mary's first child Mary Elizabeth, died when she was ten months old. She lost her tenth child, Florence Geneva, at the age of five, and her last child, Margaret Edna, died when she was fourteen. Richard died quite suddenly of an infected tooth 9 October 1924. All of her other children married and had families except he and Thomas Morgan Baker. She never quite recovered from Richard's death and passed away on 22 March 1925. She has one-hundred and seventy-five descendants.
Life Sketch
Mary Alice Morgan, Joseph Baker's second wife, was born 6 March 1855, at Merthyr, Tidfil, Glamorganshire, S. Wales, the daughter of Thomas and Ann (Roberts) Morgan. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in her native Wales and emigrated to Utah in 1875. She married Joseph Baker, on 26 July 1875, in the Endowment House, at Salt Lake City, Utah.
She was a woman of stalwart character and pleasing personality. She had a keen sense of humor and a typical Welch temper, but she was of a kindly disposition and conscientious about her many duties as a mother of a large family. She was a good cook, her biscuit and pies were delicious.
When she married Joseph Baker, his first family numbered eight children, one of which was Julia Aline Kimball. She had twelve children of her own, six boys and six girls. She also raised a daughter of her sisters, from the time she was eight days old. She was Mary Geneva Morris, born on 23 September 1901, at Brigham City, Box Elder County, Utah, she married Luther Parker Murray, on 30 November 1920. Her Aunt Mary gave her all the loving care and help of a mother, but she never did want to legally adopt her which shows how unselfish she was. Besides all this when Mrs. Baker's daughter Alice died in 1918, she took in her two sons and cared for them. She performed all this labor with fortitude and determination. She was a good manager, assigning the girls certain tasks to perform each day, while she did the sewing and mending, and part of the cooking.
Her first child, Mary Elizabeth, died when ten months old, she lost her older child Florence Geneva by death, when five years old, and her last one Margaret Edna, died at fourteen years. Richard died quite suddenly of an infected tooth, on 8 October 1924. All of her other children married and had families except the oldest boy, Thomas Morgan Baker. She never quite recovered from Richard's death, and passed away about five months later, on 22 March 1925 at Mendon and was buried there. Her descendants number one-hundred and sixty-four.