When Mary Flavia Durant was born on 28 April 1885, in Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, John Thomas Durant, was 32 and her mother, Caroline Elizabeth Wilson, was 27. She married Fred George Baxter on 9 May 1904, in Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Sonora Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 13 July 1956, in Montebello Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 71.