Elijah
"Lige"
Baxter
Born in Tennessee
Ancestors 
Son of Aaron Baxter
and [mother unknown]
Brother of
James Samuel Baxter
Husband of
Margaret (Bryant) Baxter
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
George Washington Baxter, James Lafayette Baxter, Anna Bell (Baxter) Bryant, William Jasper Baxter, Maggie Jane (Baxter) Cowan, Charles Baxter and Amanda Lou (Baxter) Gilbert
Died
at age 60
in Texas
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Oct 2015
This page has been accessed 103 times.
Biography
Lige was captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi during the Civil War but was released in about a week and returned to Cooke County where he married Aron Bryant's daughter, Margaret. Lige and Margaret had three children born before they came to Texas. He probably came to Texas after hearing many stories while at Vicksburg. His brothers-in-law ( James Polk Duncan, Felix Grundy Lewis, and James Stuart)had already moved to Texas before him. Lige and Aron Bryant, his father in law, moved to Texas together. Elijah first leased land in the Walnut Grove Community and it was here his fourth child was born in 1871. Elijah's wife died in August of 1872. Elijah then bought a farm and settled in the Franklin Community. In a couple of years, Elijah married another fine and dedicated wife, Eliza Jane Hunter, daughter of John and Comina Hunter who had moved to Collin County from Tennessee in the 1850's.
Sources
- findagrave.com # 6489825
Is Elijah your ancestor? Please don't go away!
Login to collaborate or comment, or
contact
the profile manager, or
ask our community of genealogists a question.
Login to collaborate or comment, or contact
the profile manager, or ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elijah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Elijah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elijah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Elijah:
-
~1.56%
Joel Layman
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch DN5000757 [compare], Ancestry member Joellayman1974
+
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch H755113 [compare]
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Comments: 1
Leave a message for others who see this profile.
There are no comments yet.
Login to post a comment.
[deleted]
Elijah Baxter was my great grandfather. I do have quite a bit of Baxter family history if anyone is interested. Cheryl
posted
by [deleted]
Featured National Park champion connections: Elijah is 17 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 22 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 15 degrees from George Catlin, 16 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 21 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 17 degrees from George Grinnell, 27 degrees from Anton Kröller, 18 degrees from Stephen Mather, 25 degrees from Kara McKean, 17 degrees from John Muir, 20 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 26 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.