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John Baxter (J.B.) and Celia Ann Masten John Baxter (J.B.) Masten was born on July 2, 1846 in Tennessee, probably near Nashville. He was the oldest son of Wyle B. and Elizabeth Britton Masten. J.B.'s early years were spent in Tennessee, but the family moved to Dade County, Missouri where he met, courted, and married Celia Ann Spain on May 23, 1869 in Lockwood, Missouri. Celia Ann was the daughter of Lewis and Martha Penn Spain. She was born on September 19, 1849 in Dade County, and grew up during the Civil War. Three of her brothers served in the Confederate forces. Life in Missouri was extremely dangerous during that time. In early, 1862, Union forces drove the Confederate troops out of Missouri, at which time pro-Confederate bushwhackers began a guerrilla war against the Union forces. The bushwhackers also attacked civilians they suspected might support the Union. Conditions were clearly out of control, and people were killed independent of their beliefs about slavery or any other issue of the war. One of the most ruthless massacres of the Civil War occurred near Centralia, Missouri - where the famous outlaw Jesse James was reported to be part of the bushwhackers. In view of the situation, Celia's father moved the family from Missouri to Paris, Texas when she was 13. However they moved back to Dade County as soon as the war ended. |
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Celia Ann (Spain) Masten | ||||||||||||||||
John Baxter (J.B.) Masten | ||||||||||||||||
J. B. and Celia Ann Masten were the parents of fifteen children. Gillar (8/29/1870 - 8/6/1951), who married John Henard Thomas Jeffereson (1/3/1872 - 10/12/1951), who married Mamie Neislar Minnie (4/3/1873 - 5/11/1966), who married Jim Sluder Viola Mae (9/1/1874 - 7/26/1955), who married Welcome Gower Lewis (1/23/1876 - 9/19/1970), who married Bertha Holder Wiley (9/11/1877 - 1963), who married Laura Jane LeGear Jesse E. (12/10/1878 - 1/25/1966), who married Mary Elizabeth Brewer Clinton (Clint) (3/10/1880 - 3/27/1966), who married to Lou Ella Wiggs Perry (8/25/1881 - 10/5/1947), who married Mittie Pearl Wheeler Monroe (12/10/1882 - 11/16/1970), who married Nannie Steadman Henry (8/4/1884 - 12/21/1941), who married Claudia Brooks Arthur (2/18/1886 - August, 1969), who married (1) Mary Snell and (2) Norma Chapman Buddy (10/10/1887 - 9/2/1888), died while less than one year old Johnie (3/17/1889 - 1931), who married Fannie Stinson Leona (9/13/1890 - 4/25/1963), who married Dupree Clampitt |
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