Joseph Andrew Baxter Culpepper

Male, #35293, (18 Sep 1859 - 1936)

Parent*Elias Daniel Culpepper (31 Jan 1832 - 8 May 1914)
Parent*Nancy Clegg (30 Jul 1832 - 2 Nov 1904)
Joseph Andrew Baxter Culpepper|b. 18 Sep 1859\nd. 1936|p35293.htm|Elias Daniel Culpepper|b. 31 Jan 1832\nd. 8 May 1914|p32452.htm|Nancy Clegg|b. 30 Jul 1832\nd. 2 Nov 1904|p32453.htm|Rev. William H. Culpepper|b. 17 Oct 1813\nd. 22 Mar 1909|p32073.htm|Sarah Leslie|b. 15 Feb 1808\nd. 22 Jan 1849|p32074.htm|||||||

Name-Comm His common name was Baxter. 
Birth*18 Sep 1859 Joseph was born at Jefferson Co., Arkansas, on 18 Sep 1859.1 
 He was the son of Elias Daniel Culpepper and Nancy Clegg. 
1860 Census1860 Sarah, Nancy, John, James and Joseph listed as a household member living with Elias Daniel Culpepper in the 1860 Census at Darysaw, Jefferson Co., Arkansas. 28 m-p. 873 hh 646. 
1870 Census1870 Sarah, Nancy, John, James, Isaac, Joseph, Martha, Malcolm and Francis listed as a household member living with Elias Daniel Culpepper on the 1870 Census at Derasaw Township, Grant Co., Arkansas. 38 m-210 hh 33. 
1880 Census1880 Isaac, Joseph, Francis, George and Malcolm was listed as a son in Elias Daniel Culpepper's household on the 1880 Census at Grant Co., Arkansas. 48 m-ED100-27. 
Marriage*circa 1887 He married Johnnie Smith at Arkansas circa 1887. 
Employment* Joseph's occupation: teamster at Vaugine Township, Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co., Arkansas. 
1900 Census*7 Jun 1900 Joseph was listed as the head of a family on the 1900 Census at Vaugine Township, Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co., Arkansas. 40 m-ED 100 sheet 8 line 177. 
1910 Census*1910 Joseph was listed as the head of a family on the 1910 Census at Jefferson Co., Arkansas. 49 m-ED 32 112 85. 
1930 Census*1 Apr 1930 Joseph was listed as the head of a family on the 1930 Census at Belle Glade, Palm Beach Co., Florida.2 
Burial*1936 His body was interred in 1936 at Palm Beach, Palm Beach Co., Florida. 
Death*1936 He died at Palm Beach, Palm Beach Co., Florida, in 1936.3,4 
Biography* Joseph Andrew Baxter Culpepper was the son of Elias Daniel and Nancy (Clegg) Culpepper. A one year old Joseph A. B. Culpepper was noted on his parents' farm in the 1860 in the Darysaw P. O. District of Jefferson Co., AR and this is probably where he was born. This farm is now in Grant Co., AR which was organized in 1869.5 On current maps, Darysaw is to the west of Pine Bluff near the border between Jefferson County and Grant County but on the Grant County side of the line. A ten year old "Joseph A. B. Culpepper" was listed with his parents in the "Derasaw" Township of Grant Co., AR in the 1870 census. By the 1880 census, Joseph was apparently going by his middle name, "Baxter."

Baxter married Johnnie Smith and the settled down to raise their family near Pine Bluff, AR. Mrs. Tom (Manola Culpepper) Logan wrote:6

When I knew Uncle Baxter and Aunt Johnnie best, they lived on a farm in Grant County, farmed and raised sheep. One of my treasured graduation gifts was a wool comforter, sheep raised and sheared by Uncle Baxter, carded and quilted by Aunt Sarah [Mrs. A. B. (Sally Culpepper) Williams?] with material furnished by Addie [Mrs. J. H. (Addie Guest) Culpepper?] and Floy [Mrs. J. F. (Floy Culpepper) Guest?].

This would have been in the mid-1920's. By 1932, Baxter had apparently moved to Florida since that was noted as his residence in the obituary of his sister, "Emma" Young. Since he would have been in his early 70's at this point, he was probably retired and living with one of his children. Baxter died a few years later in Palm Beach, FL. 

Family

Johnnie Smith (Mar 1869 - )
Children

Charts Descendants of Elias Daniel Culpepper of Jefferson Co., AR
Last Edited 1 Jan 2005

Citations

  1. William Harold Broughton, The Cleggs of Old Chatham: the ancestry, family, descendants of Thomas A. Clegg and Bridget Polk, their kin, and events of history Clegg Family Association, 1977.
    p 229 but Apr 1858 in 1900 census.
  2. 1930 Federal Census, United States.
    ED 50-55, Sheet 4-A, Line 34, Belle Glade, Palm Beach Co., FL
    Home=$400, Radio=N, Farm=N
    Joseph B. Culpepper, Head, M, 70, md@27, AR/AL/AL, No Occup, Vet=N.
  3. William Harold Broughton, The Cleggs of Old Chatham: the ancestry, family, descendants of Thomas A. Clegg and Bridget Polk, their kin, and events of history Clegg Family Association, 1977.
    p 229; location Mrs. Tom Logan letter 19 Mar 1980.
  4. State of Florida Health Department / Office of Vital Records, compiler, Florida Death Index, 1936-1998, Online database at Ancestry.com, 2004.
    http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7338
    Baxter Culpepper, Palm Beach Co., FL, Male, White, Vol 733, Cert 19497, died 1936.
  5. Rhonda S. Norris, A Genealogist's Guide to Arkansas Research Russellville, AR: Arkansas Genealogical Research, 1994
  6. Elias Daniel Culpepper Family Group Sheet