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Worshipful Master. On February 15, 1883, they received their charter, and Baxter was confirmed in his office. J. Sidney Otis, his nephew and a prominent stockholder and officer in later life in the H. Weston Lumber Co. at Logtown, was elected Senior Deacon.
February 27, 1897, was a memorable day for Marion and Elizabeth Baxter. Their oldest daughter, Sarah Amelia, was wed to John Henry Weston, son of Henry Weston, founder of the H. Weston Lumber Company of Logtown. The wedding took place in the big front room of the Baxter home in Pearlington. Her father gave the bride away; her younger brother Clay, six years old, and younger sister, Beulah Emily, nine, held the ribbons. The members of the bride?s family were all present as were the Westons, Poitevents, Favres, Otises, Osbourns and many others. The couple?s first child, John Roland Weston, was born in 1898. He was the first grandchild in the Marion Francis Baxter family.
The turn of the century brought an abrupt change in Baxter?s life. For more than 30 years, he had been associated with the Poitevent and Favre Lumber Company, for most of the time in high-level, responsible positions. But the sons of the founders of the company were gradually taking control, and Baxter found it more and more difficult to get along with the new generation. Friction between him and young Eads Poitevent continued to increase, and finally Baxter decided to leave the company. At the last it appears that relationships were patched up to some degree, for on leaving, he was presented with an expensive pocket watch encased in silver. The etching on the back of the case was on gold inlaid with silver. It showed the lumber mill on the Pearl River with pine logs coming out of the water to the ramp via the log conveyer and thence to the carriage where the block setter and the sawyer cut the logs into lumber. The watch represented the ultimate in craftsmanship, and even after almost 90 years, keeps near-perfect time.
After he left the company, he moved his family to Favreport, located between Pearlington and Logtown, where they occupied the old Gauss place. In Favreport, Baxter became associated with his old friend, Simon Favre, and in the beginning superintended the operation of brick manufacture at the kiln there. Later he was superintendent of a lumber mill in Favreport.
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