Banta Book Errors

Citation: A Frisian Family, The Banta Genealogy. Descendants of Epke Jacobse, who came from Friesland, Netherlands, to New Amsterdam, February, 1659; Banta, Theodore M. (1834-1910); New York; 1893. Viewable and downloadable for free at The Internet Archive: The Banta Genealogy at the Internet Archive Main page - view or download in various formats including PDF. This version may be from a photocopy, which is faint or faded in places. (As of January 2011, The Banta Genealogy copy previously free and downloadable as a PDF at Google Books has apparently been removed.)


Errors, Addenda, disambiguation ...

 ...     Sarah Elizabeth Shuck
            d/o Peter Shuck, Emilia Johnson.
            Says married Frank 'Codman'
            s/b Francis Cochran 1855 -- --- Johnson Co. Indiana B-402

  95     Anna Shuck ... - No such person existed ... more TBA

 158     Person named as "Hattie De Lane"  s/b "DeLand"
         Full name Harriett Cornelia "Hattie" DeLand or De Land

 158     Person identfied as "Ira Voris Shuck", incorrect.
         This was Ivadell Voris "Iva" Shuck (1874-1950) (female).
         She married 17 Oct 1907 to Rev. John Duncan Gibb (1863-1953),
         a Presbyterian minister.
         Both died Alameda Co., California.

 171
       1513 Peter W. Banta family, more information exists:

          2632 HENDERSON G.
              Henderson Grafton Banta, per ...
              Apparently had first marriage with unknown woman that
                produced a son James T. Banta b. 1833/4
                Listed in 1850 census.
              Second marriage to Eliza (nee Hampton) Tate 22 Dec 1840 at Franklin Co., KY
                This was HER second marriage; first was 3 June 1834
                  at Franklin Co. KY to James R. Tate.
                4 children from this second marriage (per census):
                  Catherine, John M., Lewis J., Henderson.
                (No basis found for marriage date reported by TMB of 20 Feb 1840.)

       2633 HENRY GRAFTON ...
           m. 9 Nov 1841 to Virginia Elizabeth Kelly
           (User-submitted IGI, etc.)
           (Have list of children; from census and other)

       2635 CYNTHIA ...
           (have list of children; from census)

       2636 ELIZA (Eliza Jane / Elizabeth) Banta
          married 22 or 27 Feb 1855 at Henry Co. KY
           to James Madison Kephart.
           His first wife was Lavinia (Lorinda) Adams; 5 children
             by first marriage.
           Eliza Jane was born abt 1834/5 per 3 censuses, the latter
             two where she was identified as 'Elizabeth'
           Five more children to James and Eliza:

       2638 MARTHA
           Marriage # 3 to George W. Yount 3 June 1873 at Henry Co. KY
             She identified as "Martha W. Lewis" in marr. rec.
           (Record of first two marriages not (yet) found.)

       2434 REBECCA
           (further info.)

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