Mary Ann Minton

Brief Life History of Mary Ann

When Mary Ann Minton was born on 1 February 1845, in Linn, Iowa, United States, her father, Jacob Minton, was 22 and her mother, Charlotte Lewis, was 19. She married John Banister about 1860. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. She lived in Cherokee, Iowa, United States in 1895 and Madison, Lake, South Dakota, United States in 1930. She died on 14 June 1935, in Fayette, Iowa, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Good Hope Cemetery, Cherokee Township, Cherokee, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Banister
1835–1874
Mary Ann Minton
1845–1935
Marriage: about 1860
Ida Josephine Banister
1862–1943
Theodore K Banister
1863–1916
Harriet Minerva Bannister
1865–1937
Charlotte Ellen Bannister
1866–1956
Esther Banister
1868–1960
Laura Ann Banister
1870–1918
Clara Electa Banister
1873–1880

Sources (33)

  • Mary Graham, "Iowa, State Census, 1895"
  • Mary Minton, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • Mary A Banister, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1851

Historical Boundaries: 1851: Cherokee, Iowa, United States

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English (West Midlands): habitational name from a place in Little Stretton, Shropshire, so named from the ancestor of Welsh mynydd ‘mountain, hill’ + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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