Brief Life History of Magdalene
When Magdalene Baxter was born on 22 April 1833, in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Henry Baxter, was 26 and her mother, Agnes Grant, was 26. She married George Davis Grant on 18 January 1857, in President's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851 and Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 30 January 1927, in West Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Bountiful Memorial Park, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Magdlene Baxter, "Scotland Census, 1851"
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
- Magdalene Baxter Grant, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1838
EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER: William C Brown BIRTH 1838 DEATH 1838 (aged less–than 1 year) BURIAL Bountiful Memorial Park Bountiful, Davis County, Utah, USA Show Map MEMORIAL ID 99780931 · View Source
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
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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Speaking in Tongues
From the Journal of Israel Barlow, Sr.: "January 30, 1903, Cottage meeting at Sister Maggie Grant’s. She bore her testimony speaking in tongues. Patriarch Tolman interpreted it. It said, “She knew it …
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