KENTUCKY: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin & Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887
Marion Co.

EDWARD BRISCOE BAXTER was born January 4, 1837.  His grandfather, William
Baxter, was born in Ireland from which country he came to America before
the war of the Revolution.  He was among the first that came to Kentucky,
and located in what is now Washington County; was married to a Miss Mary
Walker and reared a family of sons and daughters, among whom was William
Baxter, Jr., the father of Ed. Briscoe.  William was born in Washington
County in 1784; as a farmer he was very successful and when quite a young
man removed to Missouri, carrying with him his household possessions and
slaves.  He located in Howard County, where he remained some years, then
returned to his native State--settled in Washington County, where he
afterward married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Margaret
(Harbison) Briscoe, who were of English parentage and natives of Virginia.
Elizabeth Baxter died in 1859.  Of eight children born to her marriage with
Mr. Baxter, four sons and two daughters, William A., Lafayette, James H.,
Elizabeth, Lucebra and Edward B. lived to be grown.  William Baxter died in
1857, aged seventy-three years; his life was one of remarkable activity.
Politically he was a Democrat and held the office of sheriff of a district
which was co-extensive with what is now Marion County, and carried on the
business of that office in connection with farming.  He was a soldier in
the war of 1812, and fought in the memorable battle of the Thames.  Ed.
Briscoe Baxter was a native of Marion County; was reared on his father's
farm.  He received a common-school training in early life and finished at
Perryville Institute, where he studied mathematics and collateral science
up to 1857, when he was called home upon the occasion of the death of his
father; from that time until the beginning of the civil war he had charge
of the home farm.  His sympathies being with the Southern cause, he and two
brothers went South, and soon after joined Morgan's command.  He was
captured at Springfield, Mo., and for a year was held a prisoner of war at
Johnson's Island; his two brothers were captured with Morgan and his
command while on the road into Ohio; they were held prisoners at Camp
Douglass until the end of the war.  Ed. B. Baxter returned home after the
war and resumed farming, with which he connected the business of trading in
stock--he has been uniformly successful and is now proprietor of 400 acres
of valuable farming and stock land, lying on the waters of Beech Fork Creek
in Marion County.  He was married on the 7th of October, 1874, to Miss
Ellen, daughter of Walter and Mary (Durham) Gregory, of Boyle County.
Ellen (Gregory) Baxter was born April 8, 1848; to her and Mr. Baxter are
born three sons, Walker, George and Edward.  She is a member of the
Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Baxter, though not a member of the church, holds
to the Baptist faith.  Politically he is a Democrat, but without political
aspirations, though he is a worker in support of his party and principles,
and is also a strong advocate and supporter of schools.

Baxter Walker Harbison Briscoe Morgan Durham Gregory
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Washington-KY Boyle-KY Howard-MO VA OH Ireland

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