Emma Daugherty Banister
N 31° 44.158 W 099° 18.703
14R E 470472 N 3511212
Separate husband and wife grave markers at the Banister family plot in Santa Anna Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMV47T
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/20/2017
Views: 2
Emma Daugherty Banister is buried in Plot 2, Block 79, Lot 2 in the Santa Anna Cemetery in Santa Anna TX.
Marker Number: 1476
Marker Text:
(Oct. 20, 1871-June 4, 1956)
The Daugherty family moved west in the late 1870s to Coleman County from present Forney in Kaufman County, where Emma was born. At age 14 she left home to finish school and obtain a teaching certificate in Goldthwaite. She married lawman and widower John R. Banister in 1894, and they raised nine children. Banister was Coleman County sheriff when he died in mid-1918, and Emma was chosen to complete his term of office to the end of 1918.
Recorded - 1986
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