Pvt Texas Frontier BN "Texas Ranger"
John Banister came to Texas from Missouri in 1867 and began to "cowboy" in Coleman and Mason counties. In 1876 he joined the Texas Rangers and served in the Frontier Battalion, escorting John Wesley Hardin to Comanche for trial in the murder of Brown County deputy sheriff Charles Webb. Banister also aided in the capture of the legendary bank robber Sam Bass. Banister left Ranger service in 1888, worked running a livery stable, as a railroad detective, and as an inspector for the Texas Cattle Raisers Association.
After his first wife died in 1894, leaving him with four children, John Banister married his second wife, Emma Daugherty. John and Emma would have five children of their own. In 1914 John Banister became sheriff of Coleman County but was struck down by a stroke in 1918. Emma, who had served as John's office deputy, assumed the job of sheriff and, in doing so, became the first female sheriff in the United States. After completing her husband's term, she returned to her farm in Santa Anna.
Information from the book: Texas Cemeteries by Bill Harvey

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Found this in a book "TEXAS RANGER INDIAN WAR PENSIONS"
Abstracted By Robert W. Stephens (page 16)

BANISTER, John R. (Ind. Sur. No. 13549)
Born May 24, 1854, in Camden County, Missouri, died
August 2, 1918, in Coleman, Texas. Married first Mary
Ellen Walker in November, 1882, in San Saba, Texas;
she died in 1892 in Coleman. Married second Susan
Emma Daugherty September 25, 1894, in Goldthwaite,
Texas; she was born October 20, 1871, died in June,
1956. Application based on service in Company E of the
Frontier Battalion from October 9, 1877, to February 29,
1880. Application approved.
When he made application for a pension in 1917,
Banister was serving as Sheriff of Coleman County,
Texas.

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