Clarissa Adelaide Baxter

Brief Life History of Clarissa Adelaide

When Clarissa Adelaide Baxter was born on 22 August 1849, in Independence Rock, Natrona, Wyoming, United States, her father, Zimri Harfford Baxter, was 42 and her mother, Eunice Abigail Seavey, was 38. She married Daniel Morgan on 9 November 1867, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 10 January 1890, in Price, Carbon, Utah, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Price City Cemetery, Price, Carbon, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Daniel Morgan
1844–1902
Clarissa Adelaide Baxter
1849–1890
Marriage: 9 November 1867
Daniel Sevey Morgan
1868–1939
Clarissa Adelaide Morgan
1870–1941
William Henry Morgan
1872–1959
Eunice Abigail Morgan
1874–1875
Martha McGill Morgan
1876–1965
Zimeriah Harford Morgan
1879–1959
John Athos Morgan
1881–1881
Edward Nelson Morgan
1882–1961
Joseph Albert Morgan
1884–1953
James Oscar Morgan
1887–1962
Ira Roy Morgan
1889–1950

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  • Luana Morgan in household of Lee Daniel Morgan, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • 1849 Wyoming Birth of Clarissa Adelaide Baxter
  • U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900

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1850

Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States

1852

Historical Boundaries: 1852: Juab, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Juab, Utah, United States

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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