William Reid Baxter

Brief Life History of William Reid

When William Reid Baxter was born on 7 January 1852, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, his father, John Grant Baxter Sr, was 24 and his mother, Mary Magdalene Reid Tyndale, was 25. He married Jessie Laird about 1881, in Silver City, Juab, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 30 September 1917, in Goshen, Juab, Utah, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Original Goshen Pioneer Cemetery, Goshen, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Reid Baxter
1852–1917
Jessie Laird
1856–1927
Marriage: about 1881
David Henry Baxter
1883–1918
Robert Laird Baxter
1885–1950
John Grant Baxter
1887–1964
Wiliam Tyndle Baxter
1889–1945
Mary Magdalena Baxter
1892–1945
Andrew Louis Baxter
1898–1914

Sources (20)

  • William R Baxter in household of Mary Baxter, "United States Census, 1870"
  • William Reed Baxter, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
  • William Reed Baxter in entry for William Tyndel Baxter, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"

World Events (8)

1857

Historical Boundaries: 1857: Juab, Utah Territory, United States 1862: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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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Goshen Centennial History by Louie S. Steele Jensen Part II

Mr. Jones came into the valley in 1860. He was very handy in fixing things such as welding an iron, shoeing a horse or ox, fixing a door or window. In other words he tried everything. This gave him th …

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