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Sharecropper's Daughter chronicles Baxley family life and SRP era
Fairy Bell Baxley recalls a hard agrarian life in Ellenton Barnwell County born 1902 daughter of Ashley Mugs. She and Carl Baxley married in 1918 faced boll weevil and poverty, moved after Savannah River Plant purchase, raised eight children and later wrote a diary published as Sharecropper's Daughter with family edits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Baxley
Fairy Bell Muns
Daisy Mae
Ellenton
Carl
Fairy Bell
Sharecropper
Mrs. Baxley
Barnwell County
Fairy Bell Mans Baxley
Aiken County
Lois
SRP
Old Christian Church
Old Ellenton
Hickory Ridge
C.F
Bush Place Farm
Main Street
Lonnie
Louise
Barnwell
Arthur Foreman
Baxleys
Florie Gap
Ruby
Jackson
Pine Log Road
Fairy Bell Baxley
Sarah Caskey