BIO:  BANTA, Abram T., s/o Henry & Jane (Fulton) Banta

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

BANTA   FULTON   STEPHENS   McCRACKEN   

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1886

Daviess County, Barr Twp., page 809

ABRAM T. BANTA, one of the early settlers of Daviess County, Ind., is a son
of Henry and Jane (Fulton) Banta and was born in the county where he now
resides in 1823.  The parents were natives of Kentucky, the father born in
1786. The mother was an own cousin of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the
steamboat.  They came to Indiana in 1823 and located in Daviess County,
where they purchased 160 acres of timber land.  The father died in 1872, 
and the mother in 1833.  Abram obtained his education in the subscription
schools of early days, and when twenty-two years old began working for him-
self on rented farms.  Ten years later he went in debt for the greater part
of eighty acres of land.  By hard work and good management he not only paid
for this, but added eighty acres more, making a good farm of 160 acres, 120
of which are under cultivation.  In 1845 he was married to Eliza E. Stephens,
born in 1830, daughter of William and Elizabeth (McCracken) Stephens.  To
their union the following children were born:  Elizabeth J., William W.,
Susan D., Martha A., Glen D., Mary E., Henry D., Sarah E., Charley A. and
Thomas S.  Mr. Banta served nine months in the late war in Company F,
Forty-fourth Indiana Infantry.  He is a Republican, and he and wife are
members of the Christian Church.
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