Ruth Euzelia Ariail Baxter

Ruth Euzelia Ariail Baxter

Top picture is grave marker for Ruth Euzelia Ariail Baxter, daughter of Rev. William Hamilton Ariail and wife of Clifford Lawton Baxter. Bottom picture is marker for Clifford Lawton Baxter, Jr., son of Ruth Euzelia Ariail Baxter. Bio for Clifford Lawton Baxter, Jr.: Clifford Jr. is not married. He died at sea during WW II. A German submarine attacked the ship that Clifford was on in the vicinity of the Azores. It is not known if his remains were recovered. If not, then the marker in the Black Swamp Cemetery would be a memorial marker. There is no confirmation that the following article recovered pertains to Clifford Jr., however it is highly likely that it does: 2 Allied Ships Sunk by Subs: Navy disclosures yesterday of the loss of an American freighter in the North Atlantic and a British merchantman in the Caribbean– both last month– boosted to 459 the Associated Press count of Allied and neutral losses in the Western Atlantic since December 7.Two merchant sailors and two naval gunners were lost when Axis torpedoes blasted the medium-sized American craft, but forty-six survivors were rescued from rafts and a lifeboat by a British corvette and taken to a United Kingdom port. One of these men was hospitalized and the others have returned to the United States. All fifty-eight crewmen of the British vessel were rescued by a United States warship twenty minutes after their boat went down. Survivors said they did not see their attacker. (Note: It is believed that Clifford died on the American medium sized craft.)

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