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