Neosho County KS Archives Obituaries.....Baxter, Minnie E. (Bickering) April 4, 1899
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Galesburg Enterprise, Friday, April 7, 1899
Death has once more visited our community and claimed for its victim the loved 
wife and mother in the home of Charles M. Baxter. Mrs. Baxter died at 4 a.m. 
Tuesday. She leaves a husband, her eight children, father, mother, brothers 
and sisters with a host of friends to mourn her death. The remains were 
interred in Mt. Hope Cemetery at 8 o'clock this afternoon, the A.O.U.W. and P. 
of A. lodges taking part in the ceremony at the grave. Due to the illness of 
the children the funeral was deferred until later.

Friday, May 5, 1899
  Minnie E. Baxter died at her home near Galesburg, Kansas, on April 5, 1899, 
after a short illness of but a few days, aged 39 years, 4 months, and 8 days. 
  Her maiden name was Bickering. She was born in Wooster, Kosciusko county, 
Indiana, December 2, 1859; moved with her parents in October 1868 to Jones 
county, Iowa. 
  January 13, 1881, was united in marriage to Charles M. Baxter. They moved 
with their family to this place in the fall of 1886. As the result of their 
union, nine children were given to them, five sons and four daughters, of 
which four sons and four daughters with the husband, father, mother, three 
sisters and two brothers remain to mourn her untimely death.
  She joined the M. E. church during the winter of 1877. . . 




Additional Comments:
*Second obit has April 5 for death date. First obit has Tuesday, which would 
be April 4, 1899. Another article mentions that the children were ill with the 
measles.

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