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"THE VOICE OF THE SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST"
Bay St. Louis - Waveland - Diamondhead - Pass Christian - Long Beach
THE SEA COAST ECHO, BAY: ST.,LOUIS, MISS., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1976 SECTION C PAGE 1
At City-County Memorial Library
Lionel Baxter collection to be shown in Nov
By KATHY PIERCE The ? Lionel Baxter Document Collection will be exhibited Nov. 1 through 11 at the City-County Public Library in Bay St. Louis.
Th<* collection includes dot ents, engravings, pictures, china, and original editions; mainly from the Civil War period. Mr. Baxter has a particular interest in old documents pertaining to the 20th Mississippi regiment of the Confederate army. His
grandfather, Marion Francis Baxter, served with the regiment from 1861 through 1865, he joined Company ?E? in Handsboro at the age of 13 years and 8 months, after running away from home. When Marion Baxter walked home from South Carolina in 1865, he was not yet 18 years old.
The earliest item in the collection is a 1691 signature of William Penn, and there are signatures of Jefferson Davis,
Robert E. Lee, and many other officers of the Confederacy, including most of the commanders of the 20th Mississippi Regiment.
There is a 1780 map of South Carolina and Georgia made by the mapmaker to the King (George III), showing the holdings of the original proprietors, among which were Mr. Baxter?s family.
Also on exhibit will be the ,ten plate set by Lennox -depicting scenes of the Civil
War, which were made in a limited edition and sold to finance the construction of the Confederate Museum of Richmond, Virginia.
There are many more documents, pictures, maps and commemorative medals and coins of a contemporary nature.
Lionel Baxter has been collecting these documents for more than forty years. He has now retired from the Storer Broadcasting Company,
where he was formerly the head of Washington division. He is presently on the Board of Directors of the Miami Beach company, one of the nation?s largest operators of radio and television stations and cable TV systems.
Mr. Baxter is very active in civic affairs and is a member of the Knights of Columbus, Bay St. Louis; Metropolitan Dinner Club of the Gulf Coast; Diamondhead Country Club; Civil War Round Table,
Jackson; the Har.cock County Hisotrical Society; the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Gulfport; a member of the Advertising and Public Relations Committee of the Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge; and a former member of the Communications, Committee of the United' States Chamber of Commerce.
Th display may be seen fronr: 10:00 a.m. Monday, November 1, but will formally open with a reception in Mr. Baxters honor on No.v. 1, in the Crawford Room at the Library from 7 to 9 p.m. The public is most welcome.