Grover Benjamin Bannister
Grover Benjamin Bannister
Private, U.S. Army Coastal Artillery Corps, Company 1
Born Oct. 8, 1888
Died Oct. 6, 1918
Grover Benjamin Bannister was the son of Judge Charles A. Bannister and Josephine Wilma (Hanks) Bannister.
He was born Oct. 8, 1888, in Pratt County, Kan., and he and his family moved to Oklahoma in 1889, first settling on a farm east of El Reno. In 1895, the family built a new home at 200 N. Barker Avenue in El Reno, where they lived for decades thereafter.