Deardurff history
What’s in a Name? How Do you Spell Yours?
From Dierdorf to Deardurff: 16 spelling variations, centuries of family history, and a few mysteries still waiting to be solved. When your last name is Deardurff, you get used to spelling it for people. I’ve been doing it my entire life. It’s not exactly a name people hear every day, and I can understand why…
Read MoreBefore We Were Deardurffs:
The History of Dierdorf, Germany Tracing our family name back to a German town with more than 900 years of history. I’ve spent quite a bit of time researching the Deardurff family name and its variations. Deardorff, Deardorf, Dearduff, Dierdorf, and a few others have shown up along the way. Sometimes I wonder whether the…
Read MoreThe Church of Amwell
The Church of Amwell: A Forgotten Chapter in Deardurff Family History The story of Anthony Dierdorf, the early German settlers of New Jersey, and the churches they helped establish nearly 300 years ago. When researching your family history, you never know where an old name might lead you. Sometimes it is a birth record, a…
Read More193-Year-Old Log House Offers Peek At Past
B TRACY TURNER (Columbus AP) Pairs of volunteers watched anxiously as a screen sifted archaeological treasures from cold damp dirt. The group of about 20 professional archaeologists. Ohio State University students and history buff’s shared a quiet sense of excitement and urgency as each historical find was unearthed yesterday at the Deardurff House a 193-year-old log house in Columbus. The house is the oldest known…
Read MoreDeardurff family among earliest settlers in central Ohio
On Oct. 3, 1798, a wagon carrying Abraham Deardurff and his family rolled into the settlement of Franklinton in the heart of central Ohio. Located on the west side of the Scioto River, slightly south of the forks of the Scioto and Olentangy, Franklinton had been laid out by frontier surveyor Lucas Sullivant in the…
Read MoreThe Deardurff House
The Deardurff house, at 72 S. Gift St. In Columbus Ohio, is the oldest known structure in Franklin County still on its original foundation. It was built in 1807, just four years after Ohio achieved statehood. The Deardurff house was built by David Deardurff for his mother. You can read more about that in this…
Read MoreThe Deardorff Camera
NOTE: The following is from an archive of a site from Ken Hough. his website no longer exists that I can find other than the wayback machine. I felt it was important to document this piece of history for anyone interested either in the Deardorff camera’s or the Deardorff/Deardurff family history. A Brief History Lesson –…
Read MoreDefending The Alamo
Defending The Alamo William Dearduff, b. about 1811, 25 or older, arrived single from Tennessee 20 Mar 1830 and received title for one fourth sitio in the DeWitt Colony on 5 Nov 1831 with arrival date on 20 Mar 1830. His grant was on Sandies Creek north of current Cuero. He owned four lots, a…
Read MoreDeardorff History
History of Deardorff Original artical on http://www.craigcamera.com I’ve copied here to perserve the story in one location with other deardurff family stories. The following quaint piece of photographic history was prepared by Merle S. Deardorff, probably about 1983, and printed under the Deardorff letterhead. L.F. Deardorff Mr. Laben F. Deardorff., the founder of L.…
Read MoreDeardurff Women
Deardurff Women Deardurff women played pioneering role in Franklinton By: Robert Albrecht Dispatch Reporter Leslie Blankenship stands on Gift Street in front of house that once belonged to the Deardurff family. The phrase “pioneer women” brings to mind images of determined and resilient people who prevail over difficult circumstances and deserve to be remembered. It…
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