Tillie’s family was living on the farm at Blyn, also knows as the Reyes Ranch, when she and her twin sister Annie were born. The family’s property was acquired by her grandmother, Annie Jacobs Reyes, and her grandfather, Bartolo Reyes, who was born in Chile.
 
On the farm at Blyn she remembers her folks had a big two story house. “Then the highway department decided for the 101 highway to go right through the ranch. So they bought the property and they went right through the house. ”
 
Tillie and her sister Annie did all kinds of chores on the farm. They didn’t have to milk cows like their brother Walt did. Their mother always had a big garden “so we had to weed, hoe and feed the pigs morning and night with two five-gallon cans.”
 
“I started school in Blyn and we had to walk a mile in the morning to school and after school we walked another mile back home so we always had to wear what we called boy’s shoes because they lasted, nothing fancy about ‘em because of all the walking. Then we would get home and feed pigs.”
 
The Blyn school was on Zaccardo Road. “There were fifteen to twenty kids in that one room school house. I was never so happy in all my life as when Blyn consolidated with Sequim schools when I was in the fourth grade. So we got to ride the bus then to school right from in front of our door. When we had recess we played baseball or else found somebody and sat and admired the boys.”
 
Blyn had a grocery store and a church. The grocery store is now the Tribe’s Art Gallery and Tribal Library.
 
Tillie remembers when her mother used to go down to Jamestown and visit Jake Hall and “it seems like we always just sat at her side and behaved ourselves.” “We always went to the beach at Blyn, Reyes’s Landing they used to call it.” They swam and because of the bay “the water really wasn’t that cold.” They always had a fire and clam bakes and marshmallows.
 
Tillie’s Mom made all of Tillie’s and Annie’s clothes “We dressed alike.” Her father worked day and night. He dug clams for income at Discovery Bay for Johnson and Gunstone. He also worked in a logging camp and used to separate the milk from their cows for sour cream.
 
Tillie Baker passed away in 2007.