DARR BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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DARR, John - b: 1821 Ross Co, OH
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 699
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 Eckenbarger, 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. Mr. and Mrs. Darr have four children, Julia B., (wife of 
John Fleming) Edwin, Lucy E., (wife of Dr. Kinsey) and Frank C. They have lost 
three children, two of whom died in infancy, and Andrew M., died in Johnson 
County, October 15, 1852, at the age of 21 years. After his marriage Mr. Darr was 
occupied in conducting a flouring mill in Middleton, Butler County, Ohio, for two 
years. In 1848 he returned to Indiana, where he resumed the flouring business 
until coming to Missouri in 1866, when he purchased a farm in Johnson County. 
There he resided about fourteen years. In 1880, selling his Johnson County 
property. he settled on his present place. He has 140 acres of land in a fair state 
of cultivation and under improvements.

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