Person

William Baxter

A farmer living in Clarke County, Virginia, who married Sarah E. Alexander on August 19, 1879, as Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records.

What the sources support

Patricia B. Duncan's abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that William Baxter, 35, single, a farmer born in Maryland and living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Sarah E. Alexander on August 19, 1879, in Clarke County, Virginia.

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What the source supports

That William Baxter, a farmer living in Clarke County, Virginia, married Sarah E. Alexander in 1879.

Uncertainty

Read from this project's OCR of a scan of Duncan's printed abstract, not from the page image or from the register kept by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Clarke County. Duncan's abbreviations are expanded using her key. Nothing about William Baxter beyond this entry is recorded here, and his parents and his wife get no records.

Source

Reference work

Evidence role: supports. Duncan's entry for the marriage.

Patricia B. Duncan, Clarke County, Virginia Marriages 1836-1886 (Heritage Books, 2008)

Patricia B. Duncan · 2008 (publication)

Locator: Page 59, register entry for the marriage of William Baxter and Sarah E. Alexander

Relevant passage

BAXTER, William; s/o John & Catharine BAXTER; 35y; sgl; farmer; b. Maryland; res. ClrkVA; m. 19 Aug 1879 at ClrkVA to ALEXANDER, Sarah E.; d/o James & Jane ALEXANDER; 21 y; sgl; b. LdnVA; res. ClrkVA

Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.

Open source

Source family: duncan-clarke-marriages. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-15. How this project checks its sources

Also indexed as: BAXTER, William. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.

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