William P. BANTA

Sources:

Ancestry One World Tree
1870 Census, Fayette County, Texas
1880 Census, Hamilton County, Texas
1860 Census, Burnet County, Texas
1850 Census, Travis County, Texas
Internet IGI, Feb 2008

Notes:

                   NOTES:
    1. William was the author of Twenty-Seven Years on the Texas Frontier.
    2. William noted as being the first man married in Burnet County and the first man baptized in Burnet County. He was baptized in to the Church of Christ.
    3. William was in nearly all the Indian fights from 1850 to 1859 and organized and commanded the first company of minute men in the county under commission from Governor Edward Clark in 1861.
    4. William was one of the first to volunteer for service in the Confederate Army in 1861, and six months later was elected first lieutenant of Company A, McCord's Regiment, Walker's Division.
    5. He served for 27 years on the frontier, seeing the country settled from the Red River to the Rio Grande.
    6. He officiated at his daughter, Ellen's marriage, and spent most of the later years of his life at Lampasas, Texas.


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