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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Hempstead County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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M. M. Baxter is a son of Nathan Baxter, who was born in Georgia, November 15, 1802, a farmer and miller by occupation, and he was also born there, his birth occurring on March 15, 1834. His native State continued to be his home until 1864, at which time he removed to Indiana, but in 1869 came to his present location in Arkansas. He started out to fight his own way in the world at the age of eighteen years, in Pauline County, Ga., and for many years has had the reputation of being an exceptionally fine cabinet-maker and millwright. He has owned his present farm of 290 acres since 1874, and as a tiller of the soil holds a prominent place among the agriculturists of this section. His land averages one bale of cotton to every three acres, but he has frequently raised one bale to the acre. The average yield of corn is twenty bushels to the acre, but forty bushels are often raised, and he also has abundant harvests of the smaller grains. He was married on January 6, 1856, to a daughter of William Watson, of Georgia, who is now engaged in farming in Arkansas, having come to this State in 1868. Mr. Baxter and his wife are the parents of the following children: Wesley H., Emily Elizabeth (wife of Cornelius Brown), John Marion, Eliza Dora (wife of William Asbury), Martha Ellen (wife of W. A. Mauldin), Mary Missouri, Millie L. (deceased), Margaret Alice (wife of William H. Turner), Robert Lee, Delana Adaline, Emma Ada, Sanford Richard, Thomas Jackson and William Mitchell. Mr. Baxter is a Democrat, and he and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church. His paternal grandfather was born in North Carolina, an Englishman by descent, his father having been born in that country, and come to America with Sir Walter Raleigh.

 

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This family biography is one of 131 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Hempstead County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Hempstead County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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