They went out to Oklahoma, a new state, my hopeful grandparents. There would be three sons: James Patton, Baxter, Jr., and my father, Robert Love, all born in Atoka, Oklahoma. A nephew of two of Tennessee's most memorable governors, Robert Love Taylor and Alfred Alexander Taylor, Baxter worked as a newspaper editor, and in 1910 was elected county judge. Then it was time to move on to higher things, for he was from a family keen on politics, and he moved his young family to Oklahoma City, where, in 1917, the politics were heating up.
