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Clarice Howard Baxter, known as "Ma" Baxter, was the wife of J. R. Baxter, Jr., She was born in DeKalb County, Georgia on October 1, 1897. She was a teacher, but left the teaching profession when she got married. She was active in the Stamps-Baxter Music Co., based in Dallas, Texas. Stamps-Baxter, a southern music company publishing shape-note music also promoted singing schools and the training of music teachers. The company also sponsored gospel quartets to sing the company's music in churches. Clarice also participated in the quartets. After her husband died she took over the management of the Stamps-Baxter Music Co. She was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1997.

Dianne Shapiro, from "Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame" (www.sgma.org), "Ben Speer's Stamps-Baxter School of Music" (www.stampsbaxterschool.com) and "History of the Stamps Baxter Singing Schools and Normal School of Music" by Jeannette Fresne Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, October 2008, XXX:1, p. 21