{"id":3128,"date":"2022-01-10T14:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3128"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:20:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:20:25","slug":"baxter-john-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/baxter-john-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Baxter, John D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John D. Baxter<\/strong>, register of Lauderdale County, is the son of David and Cynthia<br \/>\n(Dixon) Baxter. The father was a native of North Carolina, and, when a young<br \/>\nman, came to Middle Tennessee, where he married Miss Dixon and by her had two<br \/>\nsons and a daughter; they settled in Middle Tennessee, where the mother died<br \/>\nin 1831, a devout member of the Presbyterian Church. The following year he<br \/>\nmarried Frances Elder, by whom he had six children; he was not a member of any<br \/>\nchurch; she belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church South; he was a farmer,<br \/>\na quiet, upright man, in politics as Democrat; he died in 1857, about sixty-<br \/>\nseven years old. John D. Baxter, our subject, inherits Irish blood through his<br \/>\nfather; he was born September 14, 1823, in Rutherford County; received a<br \/>\ncommon school education, and remained on the farm until he was twenty-one<br \/>\nyears old; then served a three years&#8217; apprenticeship learning the carpenter&#8217;s<br \/>\ntrade, which he followed for seventeen years. In 1848, Mr. Baxter married Ann<br \/>\nA. Lackey, who was born May 26, 1829, in Rutherford County; two of the six<br \/>\nchildren born to them are living now. In 1861 they moved to Lauderdale County,<br \/>\nwhich has since been their home, the entire family belongs to the Presbyterian<br \/>\nChurch. In 1865 Mr. Baxter was appointed by Gov. Brownlow to fill the office<br \/>\nof register of Lauderdale County, and in 1866 he was elected by the people to<br \/>\nfill the office, and has been so popular and efficient as an officer that he<br \/>\nhas been re-elected every four years since then and is still holding it for<br \/>\nthe sixth term. For twelve years he was postmaster at Ripley, Tenn.<br \/>\nPolitically he is a Democrat. In 1871, Mrs. Baxter died, and he has never<br \/>\nremarried. He has been a resident of Lauderdale County for twenty-five years,<br \/>\nand is a worthy citizen.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John D. Baxter, register of Lauderdale County, is the son of David and Cynthia (Dixon) Baxter. The father was a native of North Carolina, and, when a young man, came to Middle Tennessee, where he married Miss Dixon and by <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/baxter-john-d\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-3128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-baxter"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3129,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}