Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....Baxter, Moses J. 1828 - uk
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Author: MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA
MOSES J. BAXTER, farmer, Temple, Carroll Co., Ga., son of John and
Elizabeth {Stripling ) Baxter,-was born in Monroe County, Georgia in 1828  His 
paternal grandparents were John and Nancy (Dowdy) Baxter. His grandfather was 
born in England, and came to this country after the revolutionary war. He 
settled first in Virginia, afterward moved to North Carolina, and finally came
 all the way from North Carolina to Georgia in an ox cart, and settled in the 
woods in Monroe county-among its pioneers. He followed farming all his life. He 
was a soldier of the war of 1812, and during his service had a remarkable 
experience with a wound. The ball went entirely through his body, and a silk 
handkerchief was drawn through the orifice, yet he recovered and lived many 
years in excellent health afterward.(TRANSCRIBERS NOTE: This some incident is 
repeated in Mr. Z. T. Adams biography as have happened to Mr. Adams (??) Mr. 
Baxter's father was born in 1807,and came to Georgia when a small boy with his 
father, who came to Carroll county in 1828; the subject of this sketch was an 
infant at the time, and the unconscious subject of a thrilling incident. The 
trip had been made in ox-carts, and when they reached the Chattahoochee river a 
negro nurse insisted on taking the baby in her arms. When the boat reached the 
opposite bank, the steers became scared and backed, and the negro jumped 
overboard with our subject in her arms. When she arose to the surface his 
father caught and drew them out. His father was a soldier in the Indian war of 
1836; and, also, was a member of the Methodist church. His maternal 
grandparents, John and Mary Stripling, were among the early settlers of Monroe 
county. Mr. Baxter was reared on the farm in Carroll county, and the very 
limited education he received was at the old time dirt floor log house, with 
its unsatisfactory accompaniments. In 1862 he enlisted in Company F, Cobb's 
legion, and went to the front. But he was soon token sick and was sent to 
Richmond; where he remained many months, and when he had apparently recovered 
he returned to the army. It was not long before he was again prostrated, and, 
this time, came home on a furlough: he was at home at the time of the 
surrender. Like thousands of others, the war left him stripped of everything; 
but like them, he went bravely to work, impaired in health as he was, to build 
up. By dint of hard work and close management he has a fine, large farm, well 
improved, with nice dwelling and substantial out buildings, half a mile from 
Temple; and commands the respect of all who know him. Mr. Baxter. was married 
in 1852 to : Miss Sarah J., daughter
of James and Elizabeth (Baskin) Stripling, early settlers, by whom he has had
eight children: William A., N. N., James D., Robert A., John M., Geo. Ann
Florence, Frances, and Martha. Mr. Baxter is a master Mason and himself and
wife are members of the Methodist church.


Additional Comments:
“MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA”, Historical and Biographical Sketches
by S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., Published in 1896.  Transcribed by Elizabeth Robertson 
July 2004.


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