Sketch of Rev. Thomas Durfee, St. Charles County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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Rev. Thomas Durfee came to St. Charles from Fall River, Mass., in 
1827.  He was a graduate of Brown University, Rhode Island, and of
the Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass.  In 1828 he was married
to Miss Ann Glenday, who was a neice of Thomas Lindsay, and then
living with him.  Mr. Durfee lived several years after his marriage
in Callaway County, as pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Auxvassee.
He afterward returned to St. Charles, and was agent of the American
Bible Society, and in 1833, the great cholera year, he died at the
house of Thomas Lindsay.  Mr. Durfee was a man of great worth and a
fine preacher.  He left two daughters, Jane S., who afterwards was
married to John Jay Johns; and Margaret Lindsay, who is now the wife
of E. P. Borden, of Philadelphia.  Mrs. Durfee, after the death of
her husband, continued to live with her uncle, Thomas Lindsay, till
his death in 1843.  At her uncle's death she was, by his will, poss-
essed of his old homestead, where she continued to reside until 1850,
when she went to live with her son-in-law, John Jay Johns, with whom 
she still resides.  She is a great enthusiast on the subject of ed-
ucation, and is using her means freely in educating her grand children.
Her eldest daughter, Mrs. Johns, was educated at Monticello, Illinois,
and Mrs. Borden at Bradford Seminary, in Massachusetts.	

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