When Thomas Franklin Baxter was born on 19 November 1861, in Alexandria, Monroe Township, Madison, Indiana, United States, his father, James Edgar Baxter, was 31 and his mother, Caroline Githens, was 24. He married Cora Luthera Starr on 27 March 1888, in Brown, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Grant Township, Keith, Nebraska, United States in 1870 and Johnstown, Brown, Nebraska, United States for about 35 years. He died on 28 January 1948, in Ainsworth, Brown, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Ainsworth Cemetery, Ainsworth, Brown, Nebraska, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Nebraska, United States 1873: Keith, Nebraska, United States 1887: Perkins, Nebraska, United States
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: occupational name from Middle English baxter ‘baker’ (from Old English bæcestre ‘baker’, earlier ‘female baker’, the feminine equivalent of bæcere). Compare Baker .
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