John W. Baxley ^{2 3}

   FamilySearch ID: MR4T-9HS.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1880 in Middleway, Jefferson, WV, United States. ⁵ The 1880 census recorded John Baxley, farmer, 28, living with wife Amanda, 28; William, 4; David, 3; Charles, 2; and Mary, 9 months born in August 1879. Everyone was born in West Virginia except Amanda in Pennsylvania.

2. Moved: 1882, , Allen, Kansas, United States. ⁶

3. Book: History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California, 1913. ⁶
One of the most successful of the citizens of Tulare county who have come within its borders in recent years is John W. Baxley, a native of Berkeley county, W. Va., born February 8, 1852. Mr. Baxley was brought up and educated and became acquainted with the details of practical farming in his native state, where he successfully raised wheat, corn, red clover, tobacco and other crops till 1882, when he removed to Allen county, Kans. There he farmed many years, acquiring eight hundred acres and giving his attention principally to wheat and corn. It was in 1909 that he came to Tulare county, Cal., where he rents one hundred and sixty acres of the Giannini ranch and has charge of six hundred and forty acres more of it as superintendent. He raises chiefly prunes, grapes, olives and almonds and has produced some fine crops of beans between rows of fruit trees. In the spring of 1911 he planted a sack and a half of black-eyed beans and fifteen pounds of brown beans and harvested two hundred sacks of the former and thirty-four sacks of brown beans.
In Kansas Mr. Baxley served his fellow townsmen as township trustee and road superintendent. Since coming to California he has been too busy with his purely private affairs to give any time to political work, but he has well defined ideas concerning all questions of public policy and, being an outspoken man, he is quite certain to be heard from whenever he shall consider it necessary to raise his voice in advocacy of any measure directed to the enhancement of the public weal. He married, at Tierty-burg, Pa., February 11, 1875, Miss Amanda L. Beecher, a native of that state, and they have had eleven children, all of whom survive: William A., married Alice Griffin, and they have two sons, Walter and Marvin. David D., who married Anna Orth, has three daughters, Rose, Violet and Lillian. Charles married Maud Meyers and they have a son named Ralph. Mary is the wife of Edward West and has borne him three children, Russel, Irene and Everett. Laura married R. R. Ross and they have a son, Elmer. Grace became the wife of M. J. Adams and their children are Viola, Harold and Catherine. Bessie is the wife of William Stevens and they have a daughter named Edna. Ernest married Edna Dornburg and has borne him a daughter, Hilda. Mattie married Howard Clark and they have one child, a son, Clive Howard. The remaining two are Clarence and Gladys.

4. Obituary: Tulare Daily Advance Register: obituary of John W. Baxley on 23 Sep 1929 in Tulare, Tulare, CA. ⁴ John W. Baxley, 78, native of Kansas and for 19 years a resident of Tulare, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary Graham, 250 North E street, Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Baxley was a retired rancher and has been living with his daughter for several years prior to his death. Deceased is survived by nine children, William A. Baxley of Tulare, Charles Baxley of Humboldt, Kan., Mrs. Mary Graham of Tulare, Mrs. R.R. Ross of Tulare, Mrs. W.N. Stevens of Lemoore, Ernest Baxley of Tulare, Mrs. L.I. Clark of Tulare, Clarence Baxley of Tulare, Mrs. C.P. Lambert of Tulare. Also surviving are several grandchildren and two brothers and two sisters, J.M. Baxley of Woodville, George Baxley of Porterville, Mrs. Frank Mull of Hammond, Ind., and Mrs. Ed Davanaugh of Brainer, Mo. Services are to be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock from the Goble Funeral parlors, the Rev. Walter Gardner, pastor of the First Christian church officiating. Interment will be in the Tulare cemetery.

5. Newspaper: Tulare Advance: Probate of John W. Baxley, 5 Nov 1929, Tulare, Tulare, CA. ⁷ LEGAL NOTICES - NOTICE TO CREDITORS - In the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the county of Tulare. In the Matter of the Estate of JOHN W. BAXLEY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, by the undersigned, Mary Graham. the executris of the estate John W. Baxley, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claim against said deceased, to file them with the nccessary vouchers in the office of the County Clerk of Lite above entitied Court within six months after the first publication of this notice, or to submit them with the necessary vouchers, within said six months, to the exceutrix at the office of Ward C. Rush. in the City of Tulare, County of Tulare, State of California, the same beine the place for the transaction of the business of said estate, in the * County of Tulare, State of California. Date of first publication this 8th day of November, 1920.
MARY GRAHAM, Exceutrix of the estate of John W. Baxley, deceased. Ward G. Rush, Attorney for the Executrix.
(Research Note: Mary Graham is John's daughter).

John married Amanda C. Beecher, daughter of John Beecher and Matilda Mary Keafauver, on 11 Feb 1875 in Gettysburg, Adams, PA.¹ (Amanda C. Beecher was born in May 1851 in Cumberland Twp., Adams, PA,^{8 9 10} died on 14 Sep 1925 in Tulare, Tulare, CA ^{2 10 11} and was buried in Tulare: Tulare Cemetery, Tulare, CA ¹⁰.)