When Mary A Baxter was born on 22 August 1864, in Greene, Tennessee, United States, her father, Thomas Baxter, was 33 and her mother, Susannah Robertson, was 31. She lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Ash Grove, Greene, Missouri, United States in 1880.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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