Banta, Bertha May LAST: Banta FIRST: Bertha MID: May GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE:  BORN: 23 Aug 1896 DIED: 30 Oct 1915 BURIED: 1 Nov 1915 (William C. Brown Cemetery) OCCUPATION:   BIRTH PLACE:  Kansas DEATH PLACE: Dallas, Polk Co, Oregon NOTES:  1900 KS CENSUS - Mae Banta (b Aug 1896, Kansas) enumerated with parents A.B. (b Mar 1861, Indiana, married 10y) and Rosa A. (b July 1870, Nebraska, mother of 3 children, all living) and 2 siblings, Cecil (b Feb 1893, Kansas) and Ruth (b Sept 1898, Kansas) 1910 OR CENSUS - Albert Banta (49y, b IN, md 20y), enumerated with wife Rose (39y, b NE, md 20y, mother of 7 ch, 5 living, all at home) and 5 ch, Cecil (17y, b KS), May (13y, b KS), Arthur (9y, b KS), Harold (5y, b KS) and Fern (1y, b KS) NOTE - This grave was later moved to Dallas Cemetery OBITUARY:  May Banta, the nineteen-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs A.B. Banta of North Dallas, passed away late last week. The cause of death was given as tuberculosis. Funeral services were conducted from the Chapman parlors by F.W. Smith. Polk County Observer, Friday, November 5, 1915, 1:4 INSCRIPTION:  SOURCES:  1900 KS CENSUS (McPherson Co, McPherson, ED 142, page 103) 1910 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, ED 249, South Dallas pct, page 314, lines 14-20) OSBH DC (1915 Polk co) #6450 Polk County Observer, 5 Nov 1915, 1:4 CONTACTS:  ROW: