When William G Baxter was born on 28 September 1861, in Greene, Tennessee, United States, his father, Thomas Baxter, was 30 and his mother, Susannah Robertson, was 28. He married Josephine Marcella “Josie” Kile on 25 July 1880, in Greene, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Ash Grove, Greene, Missouri, United States in 1880. He died on 18 January 1912, in Missouri, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English: occupational name from Middle English baxter ‘baker’ (from Old English bæcestre ‘baker’, earlier ‘female baker’, the feminine equivalent of bæcere). Compare Baker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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