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Stephen Hunnicutt Baxter

Great Great uncle of Charlotte Baxter Hensley

Stephen Hunnicutt Baxter(1783-1866)brother to John H. Baxter (1795-1873)
John H. Baxter was my gggrandfather.

Stephen Hunnicutt Baxter had a sister named Mary Ann Baxter  who married Capt. William Smith of Liberty Co. in 1810. Stephen H. Baxter migrated from South Carolina to Liberty County in 1806. He resided with Israel Baxter until he established his own home nearby after the War of 1812. He served along the Atamaha River in 1814 protecting Liberty County,from hostile Creek Indians. Israel Baxter Jr. and Stephen H. Baxter were both members of Blackmon's Regiment, Second Brigade, Georgia Militia during the War of 1812. By the middle of the nineteenth century only two families with the Baxter sirname remained in Liberty County. They were Stephen H. Baxter(1783-1866) and his brother, John H. Baxter(1795-1873)both of whom changed their places of residence from the 18th Militia District to the 16th Militia District of Liberty County at Jones Creek about 30 years before the Civil War. Their homes were locatied adjacent to the residence of their siter, Mary Ann, who married, William Smith Jr. It was their son, James Madison Smith, who commanded the Altamaha Scouts from Liberty, County durning the Civil War. Three members of his company were George W., Henry H,. and Stephen G. Baxter. The first died in a prisoner of war camp after capture by federal troops at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, The second died in 1862 of an illness contracted while he was in the service. The third survived the war. Stephen G. married Isabella Caswell in 1853.-
 

4. STEPHEN HONEYCUTT4 BAXTER (ISRAEL3, THEOPHILUS2, ISRAEL1) was born 1784 in Beaufort District South Carolina, and died 1866 He is buried in Jones Creek Church Cemetery, Long Co. Ga.. He married REBECCA CARTER 1815 in Tattnall Co. Ga., daughter of GEORGE CARTER, SR..

Children of STEPHEN BAXTER and REBECCA CARTER are:

HARRIET  BAXTER, b. 1817, Tattnall Co. Ga.; d. 1841.m Soloman Parker

JOHN JACKSON BAXTER, b. 1815, Tattnall Co. Ga.; d. September 17, 1892, Trudie - Pierce Co. Ga.. m. Temperance Moody (John Jackson Baxter's first wife.)

JANE BAXTER, b. 1821.  second wife of Soloman Parker

STEPHEN HONEYCUTT BAXTER, b. July 27, 1823, Tattnall Co. Ga.; d. June 30, 1904, Pigot Branch Baptist Church, Ludowici Ga..  m. Caroline Poppell.

WILEY B. BAXTER, b. 1826, Tattnall Co. Ga.; d. May 13, 1880, Jackson Co. Fl.. m. Eliza Copeland

HENRY H. BAXTER, b. 1837, Liberty Co. Ga.; d. March 20, 1862, Sandersville, Washington Co, Ga; m. Nancy Dukes, November 29, 1859, Liberty Co. Ga..