Isaac William BANTA
Internet IGI, Feb 2008
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. OCCUPATION: Preacher
He married Eliza Barker 22 Sep 1822 at Warrick, Indiana . Eliza Barker was born at Knox, Indiana 26 Jun 1806 .
They were the parents of 13
children:
Henry Banta
born 11 Aug 1823.
Mary Ann Banta
born 12 Jul 1825.
William P. Banta
born 23 Jun 1827.
David Riley Banta
born 17 Apr 1829.
Celestine Banta
born 17 Jul 1831.
John Banta
born 22 Feb 1833.
Jacob Rhinierson Banta
born Abt 1836.
Abiah Louise Banta
born 9 Apr 1837.
Roxana Banta
born 31 Dec 1839.
George Gordon Wilson Banta
born 28 Jan 1841.
Permelia Victoria Banta
born 26 Feb 1843.
Elizabeth Perlina Banta
born 5 Apr 1846.
Isaac Flavius Joseph Banta
born 28 Dec 1848.
Isaac William Banta died 16 Jul 1855 at Burnet, Texas .
Eliza Barker died Aft 1850 at Center Point, Kerr, Texas .