Thanks, If you find them please let me know. Be Well Joe McDonald ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jedarr@aol.com> To: <nclincol@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [NCLINCOL] NCLINCOL Digest, Vol 2, Issue 149 > > In a message dated 10/30/2007 12:03:16 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > nclincol-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > Hi Jack, > Do you know the Darr family that owned an airport "Darr Field" at > Archdale > just out side of High Point NC? > > Joe McDonald > > > > > Thanks, Joe. I had heard about that somewhere, but I then forgot about > it > until you mentioned it. I haven't researched that one. > > I believe I have determined who the original Lincoln County Darr/Derr was > and have accounted for all except one of the Darr/Derrs who appear in the > 1790 > Lincoln census (Adam is a mystery to me, but he seems to have died or > moved > away.). The first was Laurence/Lorentz, who came from Germany to Lehigh > County, PA, in about 1764 and then moved to Lincoln County, NC, in the > early > 1770s. His two sons, John and Andrew, inherited his original property > and John > ended up selling his share to Andrew and then buying on Leepers Creek. > As > nearly as I can tell from cemetery and court records, Andrew's sons died > young > or, in the case of Joshua Whitlow, without ever marrying (except possibly > Andrew J., whom I have been unable to track). Joshua Whitlow Darr/Derr > owned > Madison Iron Works and was a major land-owner in the area, but since he > had no > issue, I don't know who he passed his estate to. Maybe there is some > connection between his property and Darr field. That is a research > project for > another day. > > I descend from John, who was buried in the Old White Church cemetery in > 1821. John married Susannah Rudisill and had three sons. Valentine > moved to > Stanley, where he was the postmaster, and his descendents, many of whom > appear > in some on-line sources, may still be in North Carolina. David is said > to > have moved to Alabama and I know nothing about him or his descendents. > My > ancestor Henry Rufus died young in 1845 and his wife, Anna Blackburn, and > all of > his children migrated to Arkansas in 1858 with her Blackburn siblings. > Henry > Rufus's three sons, including my great grandfather John Calvin, were the > primary founding fathers of Atkins, Arkansas, a town created when the > railroad > was first put through. > > I don't know where the Darr Field name might come from, but I know that > another Darr branch - possibly Laurentz's siblings - moved into Rowan > County or > Davidson at about the same time that Lorentz moved into Lincoln County, > so the > airfield name might stem from one of descendents of one of those > siblings. > > I would love to learn about any other descendents of immigrant Lorentz > Darr/Derr, whose will was probated in early 1794. > > > > ************************************** See what's new at > http://www.aol.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCLINCOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.15.23/1113 - Release Date: > 11/6/2007 10:04 AM > >