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A. J. Baxter
Abstracted from The Memorial and Biographical History of Ellis
County, Texas. Lewis Publishing Co. Chicago. 1892.
A. J. Baxter, presently [1892] the Treasurer of Ellis County, was born
in 1841 in Duck River, Hickman County, Tenn., the ninth in a family of twelve
children of Andrew and Violet Baxter. . His paternal grandfather emigrated
from Scotland to America and settled in South Carolina.and his maternal ancestors
were English.
In 1861, he enlisted in Co. M, 1st Tennessee Artillery in Gen. Walthal's
Division, and served gallantly throughout the War, serving on the
Mississippi River and in the battles battles of New Madrid and Fort Pillow.
He was wounded and lost his left arm at the siege of Atlanta. . After
the end of the War, he was a student for two years at a college in Marion,
Alabama.
He later moved to Pontotoc Co. Miss., where, in 1871, he was elected County
Treasurer, an office he held for two years. After a time spent in farming,
he moved to Arkansas where he worked as a grocery store salesman and was
in the butcher business. He returned to Mississippi before moving to
Ellis County, Texas, where he taught school, having had past experience in
that occupation.
In 1872 Mr. Baxter married Miss R. Maudlin of Mississippi, and they had six
children; five still living [1892]. Musa May, V. A., T. Ethel, D. E. and
C. H. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church.
In 1886, he was unsuccessful in his run for the office of County Treasurer,
however, two years later, he was elected to that office, and again in 1890.
He was a capable, efficient and courteous officer, and the affairs of Ellis
County could not be entrusted to worthier hands.
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