Ancestry of
Meredith Baxter

TV and Movie Actress

John Thomas Baxter Jr.

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• • Father of Meredith Baxter — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • John Thomas Baxter 
  • Mother:
  • Jean Isabel Lawson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 May 1923 
  • Birth Location:
  • Pasadena, Los Angeles, California 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Mar 2010 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Nancy Ann Whitney
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1944 
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  • Child:

  Meredith Ann Baxter (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad and later a sound engineer for live radio and television.

• Additional marriages for John Thomas Baxter Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Virginia Grace Backes
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Mar 1957
  • Marriage Location:
  • Los Angeles County, California

• Sources for John Thomas Baxter Jr.

  • ¹ California Birth Index, 1905-1995, Birth record for John T Baxter.
  • ² California, U.S., Marriage Index, 1949-1959, Marriage record for John T Baxter and Virginia G Backes.
  • ³ Federal Census, CA, Los Angeles County, 1940, Pasadena, E.D. 19-507, Sheet 13B, Image 26 of 34.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, CA, Los Angeles County, 1930, South Pasadena, E.D. 19-1517, Sheet 3B, Image 6 of 26.
  • ⁵ Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, and Death Announcements, 1851-2003, Los Angeles Times, 1957, Engagement for John Thomas Baxter and Virginia G Backes.
  • ⁶ The Sedalia Democrat (Sedalia, Missouri), 05 JAN 1954, p. 2, Obituary for father John T Baxter.
  • ⁷ U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995, 1952, South Pasadena, p. 22.
  • ⁸ U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1, Record for John Thomas Baxter.
  • ⁹ U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016, Pasadena Junior College, 1942, Players Guild, Record for Tom Baxter.
  • ¹⁰ U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016, Pasadena Junior College, 1944, Plays, Tom Baxter and Nancy Whitney.
  • ¹¹ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Death record for John T Baxter.
  • ¹² U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, Draft registration for John Thomas Baxter.
  • ¹³ United States Public Records, 1970-2009, Record for John Thomas Baxter.
  • ¹⁴ Virginia, U.S., Divorce Records, 1918-2014, 14 AUG 1995, Divorce record for John Thomas Baxter Jr and Virginia Grace Baxter.
  • ¹⁵ Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014, Marriage certificate for James Clayton Rittenhouse Jr and daughter Janet Katherine Baxter.
  • ¹⁶ Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014, Marriage certificate for son Paul Robert Baxter and Carolyn Ann Shiera.
  • ¹⁷ Baxter, Meredith, Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering, New York: Three Rivers Press (2011).
  • ¹⁸ Today books, "TV mom Meredith Baxter tells about life behind the lens", (accessed 04/11/2020).
  • ¹⁹ Wikipedia, "Meredith Baxter", (accessed 04/10/2020).