About Wife’s Father George Darr 1837

Added by Heather_Jehle on 9 Jun 2008

The children of George and Sarah Darr are identified in an article in the Circleville, Ohio Independent American newspaper, dated June 3, 1837 which announces the partition of land belonging to George Darr.
Peter Darr, David Darr, Frederick Funk and Elizabeth, his wife, late Elizabeth Darr, Margaret Hines, late Margaret Darr, William Darr, John Darr, Sarah Fluery, late Sarah Darr, Willis Guy, John Guy, George Guy, Hezekiah Guy, Samuel Guy, Nelson Guy, Ann Guy, Margaret Guy, Catherine Guy, and Mary Guy, children and heirs of Catherine Guy, formerly Catherine Darr, deceased; will take notice that William Southard and Ann his wife, late Ann Darr have filed their petition on the 7th day of April, 1837 in the Court of Common Pleas of Pickaway County, and which is now ending, in which they pray partition of those lands of which George Darr, late of said county Pickaway, died, seized and possessed, situated in said county, to wit: 90 Acres on the water of Hey-run, a branch of Deercreek, entered and surveyed in the name of Henry Massie, known by the No. 7808, conveyed to said Darr, in his lifetime by said Henry Massie and wife by deed dated 28 June 1815. Also 19 acres, being survey No. 9333 in the name of Cadwallader Wallace, patented to said Wallace, and by him and wife conveyed to said Darr in his life time, by deed, dated 20th October 1821. And that at the next Term of said court, application will be made by the said Southard and wife, for an order that partition be made of said premises.
WM. P. DARST, Clerk
J.L. GREEN, ATTY for Pet. April 8, 1837

Information from Mandy Colgan50

Added by mdn161 on 13 Nov 2008

Marianne,  This is what I have on the Darrs at this point.  I think I posted it at some point for someone else.  I haven’t done anything on them since them.  In fact, my rootsweb page was never updated with this information so it is good I found it again.  I have tried to get correct information on these families but as always, I might not have it all correct.  John Peter is a bit tough because I am not absolutely positive who his mother is.  I have circumstantial evidence but no hard documentation.Mandy
 
The Darrs are a German Brethren family that migrated along a very traditional route from VA/MD into Indiana along with most of the original families that came into Elkhart Co.

The progenitor of the family was SEBASTIEN DORR (umlaut)
b 1727 Ilbesheim, Rheinland-Pfalz (German Palatine) d: 27 November 1802 Frederick, MD. He seems to have arrived in the colonies in about 1749. He was naturalized in Fredrick Co. MD on 15 April 1761

The Ott progenitor JOHAN MICHAEL OTT was also from the Rheinland-Pfalz and naturalized in Frederick Co. MD

Both families (and most of the German Brethren Families) came in the colonies from 1715-1750 as part of a huge protestant migration from the areas of Germany along the Rhine. These migrants settled in the tolerant Pennsylvania and Maryland Colonies. The New England and Virginia colonies fined families that were not members of the Congregationalist (Puritan) Church and the Church of England.

After the American Revolution, colonists of all stripes went west into the "Great Valley" of Virginia and settled along the "Great Wagon Road" that ran from York Co. PA down through the valley into North Carolina. This land had been previously denied to colonists by the English government by treaty with various American Indian groups.

Many of the German Brethren that ended up in Elkhart traveled into Rockingham Co. VA. This is a list of communicants from one of the major Brethren Churches in the area whose families all ended up in the Benton, Elkhart Co. Area. (Long, Ott, Hapner, Butt)

"Friedens Lutheran and Reformed Church Records", German Church Records of Rockingham County, Virginia Volume I / Brigitte Burkett pg. 73-76

1804 communicants list includes
Frans Ott & Wife (Franz Jacob Ott and Catherine Nead)
Susana Otten (dau of Franz Jacob Ott)
Heinrich Hopner & Wife (Henry Hapner and Elizabeth Ott dau of Franz Jacob Ott)
Friederich Ott (son of Franz Jacob)
Catharina Lang
Friederich Lang (Georg Frederich Lang brother of Adam Lang)
Johannes Ott (son of Franz Jacob Ott)
Abraham Hopner (son of Heinrich Hopner marries Salome Ott 1804)
Salome Otten (dau of Franz Jacob Ott)

1805 Communicants List includes
Adam Bott
Susanna Gangwer (dau of Franz Jacob Ott married to Joseph Gangwer 1804)


    The Grandson of SEBASTIEN DORR was GEORGE MARTIN DARR
b: 1750-1754 in Frederick Co. MD, d: abt 1836 in Deer Creek, Pickaway Co. OH
+SARAH English b: 23 January 1757, Overwharton Parish, Stafford, VA, d: Aft. 1860 Pickaway Co. OH, m: bef 1775

There were Darrs in Rockingham Co. VA so it is possible that the George Darr family spent some time in Rockingham. The George Darr family was definitely present in Loudoun Co. VA, which was one county west of Frederick Co. MD, and northeast of Rockingham Co. VA, along the wagon road.

George and his wife Sarah had 9 known children born in Frederick Co. MD or Loudoun Co. VA. Of these
three were married in Frederick Co. MD
two were married in Loudoun Co. VA
two were married in Pickaway Co. OH
one was married in Frankfort, KY

George Martin Darr appears in the 1790 Census of Frederick Co. MD pg. 185 so sometime after 1790 he was in Loudoun Co. VA

George Darr and several of his children then migrated to central Ohio in about 1814 along with many German Brethren from the Great Valley. This area opened up considerably and with some safety after the war of 1812 and the defeat of the Shawnee Indians. The Ott family was also among those that migrated. The Ott family bought land in Ross Co. OH

George bought land in Pickaway Co. OH from Henry Massie, 28 June 1815, and from Cadwallader Wallace, 20 Oct 1821.

George is in the 1820 Census of Deer Creek Twp., Pickaway Co. OH along with his sons Peter and David. He is also in the 1830 Census Perry Twp., Pickaway Co. OH.

The children of George and Sarah Darr are identified in an article in the Circleville, Ohio Independent American, dated June 3, 1837, which announces the partition of land belonging to George Darr.

Peter Darr, David Darr, Frederick Funk and Elizabeth, his wife, late Elizabeth Darr, Margaret Hines, late Margaret Darr, William Darr, John Darr, Sarah Fleury, late Sarah Darr, Willis Guy, John Guy, George Guy, Hezekiah Guy, Samuel Guy, Nelson Guy, Ann Guy, Margaret Guy, Catherine Guy, and Mary Guy, children and heirs of Catherine Guy, formerly Catherine Darr, deceased; will take notice that William Southard and Ann his wife, late Ann Darr have filed their petition on the 7th day of April, 1837 in the Court of Common Pleas of Pickaway County, and which is now ending, in which they pray partition of those lands of which George Darr, late of said county Pickaway, died, seized and possessed, situated in said county, to wit: 90 Acres on the water of Hey-run, a branch of Deer creek, entered and surveyed in the name of Henry Massie, known by the No. 7808, conveyed to said Darr, in his lifetime by said Henry Massie and wife by deed dated 28 June 1815. Also 19 acres, being survey No. 9333 in the name of Cadwallader Wallace, patented to said Wallace, and by him and wife conveyed to said Darr in his life time, by deed, dated 20th October 1821. And that at the next Term of said court, application will be made by the said Southard and wife, for an order that partition be made of said premises.
WM. P. DARST, Clerk
J.L. GREEN, ATTY for Pet. April 8, 1837

George Darr's sons Peter Darr and David Darr left Pickaway Co. OH about 1827 and migrated with some of their children through Preble Co. OH and into Elkhart Co. IN


PETER DARR
b: 1774-1781 Frederick Co. MD, d: 04 December 1844 Benton, Elkhart Co. IN, buried Jackson Cemetery, Benton, Elkhart Co. IN
+ MARY MAGDAELNA LOCK (married? see end of document) *I believe she is the mother of John Peter Darr*
+Eve Eickenbarger b: 1793-1796 MD, d: 22 February 1872 Benton, Elkhart Co. IN, m. 5 Sep 1814 Ross Co. OH (I have been working on the Eickenbarger family lately and have more stuff on them)

DAVID DARR
b: 15 June 1793 Loudoun Co. VA d: 10 December 1845 Kosciusko Co. IN, buried Syracuse Cemetery, Turkey Creek, Kosciusko Co. IN
+MARY CARR b: 28 May 1802 d: 30 May 1876 Pickaway Co. OH, m: 18 May 1819 Pickaway Co. OH, buried Peck Cemetery, Pickaway Co. OH

Peter and David Darr are found on the 1820 Census of Deer Creek Twp., Pickaway Co. OH, and the 1830 Census of Preble Co. OH. Again, many of the original Brethren families of Elkhart Co. IN made this move into Preble Co. OH. Western Ohio was the next stop for the next generation. The Ott family was also among these families. John Peter Darr, son of Peter Darr married Sarah Ott in Preble Co. OH. It is apparent, however, that Peter and David decided not to stay in Preble Co. OH. By the early 1830’s the brothers claimed land in Elkhart Co. IN as did members of the Ott family.

Peter and David entered the following land claims:

Peter Darr
9/2/1831 80 acres E1/2NE Sec 7 Twp 35-N Range 7-E
1/8/1832 80 acres W1/2NW Sec 8 Twp 35-N Range 7-E
7/13/1832 80 acres E1/2SE Sec 7 Twp 35-N Range 7-E

David Darr
8/5/1834 80 acres E1/2NE Sec 33 Twp 35-N Range 7-E
2/10/1835 40 acres NWNE Sec 33 Twp 35-N Range 7-E

This is from a biography of John Darr, one of the sons of Peter Darr:

1883 History of Henry Missouri, National Historical Co., pg. 699

DARR, John - born: 1821 Ross Co, OH residence: Big Creek Twp
John Darr, farmer, section 15, was born in Ross County, Ohio, March 1, 1821, being the son of Peter Darr, a native of Virginia, who removed to Ohio with his parents when a lad. There he grew to manhood and married Eve Eickenbarger, of German birth, but who was raised in Ohio. Peter Darr went to Elkhart County, Indiana, in 1827, and was one of the pioneers of that county, where he entered land and improved a farm. John Darr spent his youth on this farm and in a flouring mill, and was married in Goshen, Indiana, January 1, 1846, to Miss Ann Margaret E. C. Henkle, born in Germantown, Ohio, November 26, 1827. She was a daughter of the Rev. Andrew Henkle.


   Peter Darr had 5 known children:

PETER DARR (known as John Peter or J.P.) b. 1811 MD (probably Frederick Co.), d. 8 Feb 1882 in Benton Twp. Elkhart Co. IN, buried Solomon Creek Cemetery, Benton, Elkhart Co, IN, m. 21 Nov 1831 Preble Co. OH, Sarah Ott, lived Benton, Elkhart Co. IN  **born before father’s marriage to Eva Eickenbarger** DANIEL DARR b. 1815 OH, d. 13 Aug 1839 buried Jackson Cemetery, Benton, Elkhart Co. OH

MATILDA DARR b. 1817 OH, m. 9 Jun 1836 Elkhart Co. IN, James Barnes, lived Goshen, Elkhart Co. IN

DAVID DARR b. 7 Mar 1819 Pickaway Co. OH d. 1902 Benton, Elkhart Co. IN m. 24 Apr 1856 in Elkhart Co. IN, Catherine Bartholomew, lived Benton, Elkhart Co. IN

JOHN DARR b. 1821 Ross Co. OH, m. 1 Jan 1846 Elkhart Co. IN, Ann Margaret Henkle, lived Benton, Elkhart Co. IN and Big Creek, Henry Co. MO

Peter Darr died in 1844 in Benton, Elkhart Co. His son J.P Darr remained on the property that his father claimed in the 1830s.

This is information about John Peter (J.P.) Darr from a biography of a son-in-law John N. Juday

Pictoral and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St.Joseph Counties…, pg 747

John N. Juday [married Amy Darr]
…“The Father, Peter Darr, was of Dutch Descent, a native of Maryland, from which state he removed to Preble County Ohio, when a young man, and was there united in marriage to miss Sarah Ott, by whom he became the father of twelve children: John, Eliza, Jesse, Elizabeth, Milton, Mary, George, Amy, Thomas, Daniel, William, and Sarah. Mr. Darr was one of the first settlers of Benton Township, cleared a good farm from the woods and became a respected and law-abiding citizen. He lived to the age of seventy-one years, and he and his wife were members of the United Brethren Church. He was a strong supporter of the Union cause during the Civil War and always cast his vote for Republican nominees. One of his sons served in an Indiana regiment during the war, [John J. Darr Co. F, 12th Indiana Infantry] but during his service died in a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee”   MARY MAGDALENA LOCK b.1789 Rockingham Co. VA d. 1848 Preble Co. OH.  Parents John Lock and Salome Bastian. Both parents are buried in Roselawn Cemetary, Lewisburg, Preble Co. OH with other Otts, Locks etc. (including John Peter’s parents-in-law Frederick and Catherine Ott ) John Lock’s will (1818) mentions John Peter Darr as the young son of Mary Magdalene (Lock) Ott wife of John (Johannes) Ott.  Mary Magdalena married John Ott in Preble Co. OH on 22 Jun 1815 (after the birth of John Peter) In 1811 Mary’s age was 22.  Information on John Peter says he was born in MD (unproven) - could have been VA or OH.  Did Mary leave a marriage? Was there a birth out of marriage? Are there two separate John Peter Darrs?  (I have not to this date found a double).  John and Mary Magdalene Ott stayed in Preble Co. OH while Peter and Eva Darr went to Elkhart Co. IN – perhaps John Peter felt his future lay in Indiana with his father.    John Lock Capt. Revolutionary War

Tenth Legion Tithables (Rockingham Division) Rockingham County Virginia: tithables for 1792 / by Harry Miller Strickler, 1930.

No. 2 - West District Capt, Thomas Shanklin's Company (Mt. Clinton, Muddy Creek, War Branch)
Jno. Lock C.P.T. 4 White males 16-40

Preble County OH - Deed Records, Deed Book 3
8-24-1818 John Lock Sr. and Solome (mark) wife of PCO to Mary Magdalena Utt of PCO; $320.; all SW1/4 S19 T7 R3. Wit. Abraham Lock, Jacob Bear. pg 152

Preble County OH - Will Abstracts
Lock, John Sr. - Harrison Twp. - Book B. Pg. 18. dated 9-1-1818
Wife - Salome
Sons - Henry, John, George, Phillip, and Abraham
Daughters - Mary Magdalene wife of John Utt, Susanna Catherine wife of John Etzler.
Mentions John Peter Darr, son of Mary Magdalene wife of John Utt - John Peter was not of age.
Mentions land that the mills are on.
Executors - wife Salome, and son John Lock
Signed - John Lock Sr.
Witnesses - Jesse Swisher, William Leas and Jacob Baker 

Drusilla A. (Richhart) FAGAN - Corn

Added by gracieduffy on 5 Oct 2007

There are questions as to how Drusilla met Evans.  It is known that she made many trips to Pickaway County and Ross County where her Funk and Richhart relatives lived.  She went by train to visit them.  Possibly Drusilla met Evans Clinton Fagan on the train or at the depot in Crawford County where she switched trains.  The passenter train, railroad track went from Kosciusko County, Indiana to mid-Ohio, then  down the State of Ohio through Crawford County, (Oceola) Ohio and continued down through Picaway County and Ross County.  ..........Drusilla and Evans were married November 11, 1856 in Wabash, Indiana by a Mr. J.P.M. Rowan.  They then went back to Ohio where Evans lived.  They became parents to Henry Clinton in September 1857 and to Israel E. in May, 1859.  Baby Isreal was one week old when Evans was shot and killed.  .....  There was a story passed down from generation to generation that "Evans was a gambler.  He would ride his horse into town and play cards at the town tavern.  The story was that he won a lot of money (in the thousands) and as he was headed home with his winnings he was met by robbers. robbed and killed.  His horse ran home without him and his family went out looking for him.  They found him under a stone bridge, dead."......Years later we learned of a different story.  (The newspaper clipping is attached in 'pictures' under Evans Clinton Fagan).....After the 'hearing' Drusilla went back to Indiana where she grew up.  In the 1860 census she is 21 years old. a widow, living in Wayne Twp.  Kosciusko County, Indiana.  She is a Laborer (perhaps a housekeeper, cook, ?) living with her two little boys and her little sister Elizabeth.  Elizabeth was probably helping Drusilla take care of the boys while she worked......................December 31, 1860 Dursilla remarried. (Kosciusko County, Indiana Marriages  1850-1874  B  353)  ... Her husbands name was Marion Francis Corns.  She had four more children:  Della, Francis (Frank), Maude, and Manford..............................Notes of George Bosse:  (great grandson of Druscilla on the Corns side) :  ".......Drusilla (Richhart) was born at the present site of Vawter Park on the south side of Lake Wawasee in 1838 when the area was wilderness.  The Flatbelly (Miami) Indian Reservation was very likely the east property line of the farm and Indians were still in the area as late as 1842.  I recall her telling about the deer, bear, wolves and wild pigs that roamed the forest when she was a girl.  She related that her mother died when she was only eleven years old and that she then had to raise the younger siblings.  However, the census of 1850 shows that her father had remarried within a year after the death of Drusillas mother.  Knowing great-grandmother it is easy to surmise that she resented the 'interloper; and chose to ignore her existence.  She said that she had only a few months formal schooling, however she was well informed and could carry a conversation about current events very well.  She was abstentions regarding tobacco and alcohol....."  ...1850 Census:  Kosciusco,  ANCilla  ----1850 Census Federal:  DruCilla A.,  ----1860 Census Federal Census :  DruSCilla  B.,  ------1870 Federal Census.  Drusilla. -----Obiturary,  Drusilla, ----- Death Certificate,  Drusilla.............    No inheritance was left to Drusilla.  Her grandfather Frederick FUNK was the guardian of Drusilla's mothers trust.  Drusilla was married and pregnant in 1857 when the 'letter was drawn up from Sarahs (mother of Drusilla)  estate'.  Her brother George C. and twin sisters were left inheritances.   [Early Guardianship and Estate Indexes of Kosciusko County, Indiana. Compiled by Marjorie Priser]...........Letter from Linda:  (Georges daughter.  She is the gggranddaughter of Drusilla on the Corns side):  "The Funk book was published in 1899.  My Great-grandmother, Della, gave the book to my father since he was the one most interested in the family history.  The majority of that book is on Bishop Henry Funck, I'm guessing either a brother or cousin of Frederick Funk Sr.  They called our line the Frederick Funk Family of Virginia.  It only goes as far as Drusilla.  No mention of her marrying or having children. " ..........Drusilla died December, 1929.  She is buried in Syracuse Cemetery.  Sec 1, row 19, space 8 - next to her mothers grave.  The name of the headstone is Drusilla A. Corns with her husband Marion.