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Show Charlie Baxter Charlie Varner Baxter, 79, died May 5th at Fort Knox, Ky., of causes incident to age. Funeral services will be conducted con-ducted at 2 p. m. Monday in the Milford LDS Chapel, and burial will be in the" Milford Cemetery. Mr. Baxter had been a resident of Milford since 1902, when he came here from the lumber camps of the Northwest to work as a miner. In the earlier days he worked at the Old Hickory, Montreal, Mont-real, Moscow, and other mines in the area, and in partnership with a brother had operated a blacksmith black-smith shop in Milford. He was city marshal for more than six years prior to 1918, and again served as city marshal for several years during 'the 1930s. He had also been city water master mas-ter for several years. Mr. Baxter was the first successful suc-cessful farmer in the Milford Valley, Val-ley, and raised the. first alfalfa seed grown in the "area, farming 80 acres obtained under a Desert Land Grant. His first irrigation well was operated with a "one-lunger" "one-lunger" gasoline engine. An ardent sportsman, he enjoyed en-joyed hunting and fishing, and even in his later years bagged his annual buck in the Mineral Range and each year shot his quota of pheasants and ducks. Charlie Baxter was born April 23, 1879, in St. Paul, Nebr., to Noah and Lydia Ellen McMillen Baxter. In September, 1903, he married Minnie Ellen Elliker in , Milford. Survivors include three sons and a daughter, Harold J. Baxter, Clyde Max Baxter and Charles Norman Baxter, Milford, and Mrs. Ellen Gertrude Jefferson, Fort Knox, Ky.; a brother and two sisters, sis-ters, George Calvin Baxter, Mil-frd; Mil-frd; Mrs. Josephine Lilly, Methow, Wash., and Mrs. lone Evelyn Gillespie, Durango, Colo.; also 14 grandchildren - and - nine greatgrandchildren. |