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Probable daughter Elizabeth "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3HX-1CG : 13 March 2018), Eliza Barker in entry for Elizabeth P Sellers, 29 Nov 1935; citing certificate number 53886, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,116,707.
Eliza Barker was born on June 26, 1806 in Knox County, Indiana.[1][1][2]
She married (1st) Isaac Banta on September 25, 1822 in Warrick County, Indiana.[2]His middle name was William.[1] They moved to Texas in 1840. [1][2]
Together they had 13 children:
Isaac, her husband, died July 16, 1855 in Burnet County, Texas.[1][2]
Eliza married (2nd) a man named McDonald;[2]Zachariah McDonald on July 12, 1859 in Burnet, Texas.[1]
In 1887 she was living in Centre Point, Texas.[2]In 1900 Eliza was living with the Sellers family.[1]
Eliza Barker, Banta, McDonald died on June 19, 1903.[1]She is buried at San Marcos Cemetery, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas.[1]Her tombstone reads, "All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come. Thou shall call and I will answer Thee. Thou will have a desire to the work of thy hand. Even so come Lord Jesus, come quickly."[1]
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