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BAKER Robert
Robert Kermit called Jackie.
Date of birth : November 10, 1917, Venice, California.
Date of death : August 16, 1933, Pineville, Kentucky.
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Norma Jeane half-brother.
Born from the union between Gladys Baker and John Newton Baker.
Brother of Berniece Miracle.
When he was young, he had an accident; one July 4th, he put a firecracker in a Coke bottle which burst at his face; he lost his right eye.
1921 : aged 3 and a half, Robert hurt himself again. Gladys and Jasper were in the car with their children; they were travelling from California to Kentucky, to visit Jasper's mother who lived in Flat Lick. They drove in a convertible. Robert was seated on the back with Berniece, aged 2. Jasper and Galdys were arguing. Gladys was looking at Jasper and Jasper at the bending road. Robert fall from the car and his hip was injured.
He grew up with a hitching leg.
Robert kept hitching reffering to his car fall in 1921. Jasper brought him to the hospital in Louisville where the doctors trapped his leg in a plaster.
Jasper regularly travelled through the State to Louisville to keep a watch on Robert health condition.
After 2 years, Robert condition grew better but he kept a leg shorter than the other. However, the treatment had to continue.
Robert alternated his sporadic stays between Harlan and the examinations in Louisville. He wore a large bandage on his leg which had to be changed often.
Jasper took his family to live in Middlesboro and Robert went back home, where he would stay (Jasper made Robert go out of the hospital against the doctors opinion).
The health condition of Robert made worse and his kidneys couldn't bear the infection; he died on August 16,
1933, aged 16 (
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He was buried on August 17, 1933 at Flat Lick, Kentucky.
He never knew that his mother was alive and that he had a half-sister.
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