WEST CEMETERY · WC-0018

Nellie Shaw Baker

Planned burial notice

Birth: Not recorded
Death: 1936-07-08
Section clue: Not recovered
Lot clue: Not recovered
Death certificate: Not obtained
Burial permit: Not obtained

What the source tells us

Daily Argus, Mount Vernon, NY, July 9, 1936: age 76; widow of William; daughter of John and Ellen Leonard Shaw. Reynolds Funeral Home, Meriden; planned interment at West Cemetery. July 8 death inferred from “yesterday”; July 11 planned funeral inferred from “Saturday.” Notice does not prove completed interment.

Inferred from notice date; obtain civil record.

Source S013

Nellie Shaw Baker obituary transcription — Daily Argus, July 9, 1936

Open the cited source

Source access status: PDF read; factual abstract included. Reviewed for this edition September 8, 2026.

Location and interpretation

Section and lot wording is preserved as a research clue. No authenticated grave coordinates or internal plot map have been recovered. A memorial or planned burial notice does not by itself confirm completed interment.

Cite this record

Silent Grounds Collective, “Nellie Shaw Baker,” West Cemetery Record Recovery Archive, WC-0018, initial recovery edition, September 8, 2026. Cited evidence: S013, https://nyscu.org/Archives/Universalist%20Memory%20Garden/Universalist%20Memory%20Garden%20BA-BL/Baker%2C%20Nellie%20%28Shaw%29%201936.pdf. https://ctcemeterycollective.org/collections/west-cemetery/records/wc-0018. This entry is a research reference; consult its evidence status and original source.