Lucius Darby

DARBY, BEMENT, SCOTT, PHILIPPI, MCMILLAN, LENHART, DARLING, HART, PECK, NORTHRUP, FERRIS, DOUBLEDDAY, GROW, SHEPARD, BENNETT, RINDGE, BURNHAM, HICKS, BLANCHARD, BRACKETT, WOODS, HOOKE

Posted By: Lynda Darby Ozinga (email)
Date: 9/29/2003 at 22:03:32

Clarksville Farmer,Lucius E. Darby (1868-1943) entered Clarksville, Butler Co, Iowa when but 8 months old, in the company of his parents, Thomas DeWight Darby Jr. (1842-1900) & Frances Elizabeth Bement Darby (1920). Both Thomas & Frances are buried with Lucius & his wife Amy Scott Darby (1867-1942)in the Lynwood Cemetery, Clarksville.

Amy Scott was the daughter of Illinois Civil War soldier Isaac (1839-1920) & Sarah Philippi Scott (1849-1923). Sarah was the dau of Mary McMillan (1820-1903) & David Philippi (1816-1865), who is buried in the Old Town Cemetery in Clarksville. The Philippi family came to Clarksville from Somerset Co, Pennsylvania. Mary McMillan was the sister of Margaret McMillan (1813-1895) who married Samuel Lenhart(1806-1885)m & Margaret & Samuel are also buried in Lynwood Cemetery, Clarksville.

The Darby family remained in the area long term & was a very old American Family - descendants of some of the first settlers in America.

Lucius Father, Thomas Darby Jr. was a Baptist, a farmer, born in Cortland Co, New York, Thomas & Frances had lived on a farm with his brother Nathan Darby, in Dryden, Tompkins co, New York, just prior to setting out for Iowa in 1868. Another brother, Wayland D. Darby (1842-1874) also followed Thomas Jr & Frances to Iowa, but passed away in Clarksville in 1874 & his body was shipped back to Cortland Co, at the insistence of their father, Thomas Darby Sr. Wayland D. Darby is buried near his parents in the Cortland Rural Cemetery, Homer, Cortland Co, NY., Wayland share's a headstone with his father & mother.

Frances Bement Darby's mother Sarah Darling Bement, a widow, Frances sister Sarah Bement Ford, brothers Ed Bement & William Bement also moved to the Clarksville area about the same time.

Thomas Darby Sr (1802-1883)., was born in Homer, Cortland Co, NY, only 4 months after his family arrived by horse & wagon from Canterbury, CT.

Thomas Darby Jr.'s mother was Uraniah Peck Darby (1810-1866), dau of Baptist Minister in Cortlandville, NY, Rev. Nathan Peck (1783-1872). Rev. Nathan Darby's father was an American Revolutionary Soldier from Fairfield, CT, Rev. John Peck (1742-1819)& Rev. Nathan Peck's mother was Sarah Northrup (1746-1830), both buried near the Baptist Church in Clifton Park, NY. Rev. Nathan's brother Rev. John Peck (1780-1849) was also a Baptist Minister in New York, married to Sarah Ferris (1784-1847). Two of Rev. John's sons were also Baptist Ministers, Rev. Philetus & Rev. Linus Peck. They died within days of each other of malignant dysentary & one of their sons' wrote a book about their lives & that of Rev. John & Sarah Ferris Peck.

Frances parents were Julius & Sarah Darling Bement (1822-1890). Julius (b 1813) was deceased prior to their arrival in Clarksville in 1868, & Sarah was the daughter of Reuben Darling (1791-1870) & Frances Hart (1798-1848). Reuben & Frances Darling are buried in the Peruville Cemetery in Tompkins co, NY. Reuben Darling was a fifer in the war of 1812 from New Hampshire, moved to NY right after the war of 1812. Frances Hart's family was from New Jersey, her father was Timothy Hart (1766-1835), brother of Deacon Amos Hart (1776-1863), a deacon in the Baptist Church in McLean, Tompkins Co, New York. Timothy Hart is buried with Thomas Darby's brother Nathan Peck Darby, & his own brother, Deacon Amos Hart, in the little cemetery next to the Baptist Church they belonged to, in McLean, Tompkins Co, New York,

Thomas Darby' Sr's parents were Joseph Darby (1772-1835) & Anna Grow Darby (1777-1806), both from CT. Anna's father was Deacon Thomas Grow (1743-1824), An American Revolutionary soldier, who started the Baptist Church in Hampton, CT, prior to 1800. Anna's mother was Experience Goodall Grow, dau of Ebenezer & Experience LYon Grow. Anna's aunt, Miriam Goodell Kinne also moved to Homer, NY about this same time with her husband, Deaon Ira Kinne, & family, & many of the families of Darby, Kinne's, Salisbury's, & Pecks, all from CT, were married in Homer NY's early days. Anna's sister Rhoda was married to the Rev. Alfred Bennett, who was the First Pastor of the Homer, NY Baptist Church, also arriving there from CT about 1802 & several other sisters were married to Deacon's RINDGE, HICKS & BURNHAM in the Baptist church, all moving from CT about 1802.

Joseph Darby's father was Eleazer Darby (1731-1813) & he moved to Homer, NY with the family in 1802. He died in 1813 in Homer, New York & is buried with his son, Joseph Darby & Anna Grow Darby, in a small farm cemetery above the John Keep County Home in Homer, Cortland Co, New York. Eleazers' wife was Anna Doubleday but she passed away before they moved to New York.

Eleazer Darby was the son of James Darby (1702-1786) & Eleanor Shepard (b 1701). James was the son of John Darby (1672-1725) & Mary Blanchard Darby (b 1674) who later married Nathan Woods from Groton CT, after John's death in 1725, as Mr. Woods fourth wife! Mary's twin brother Nathaniel Blanchard was killed by the Indians, along with his mother & other family members in 1706 in Dunstable, Massachusetts (now Nashua, New Hampshire). Mary & Nathaniel were children of Deacon John & Hannah Brackett Blanchard.

The belief is that John Darby was the son of Edward & Susannah Hooke Darby, married in Boston, Massachusetts in 1659, (from old family records prior to 1900), but no "official" records of this can be found, since there were no census in the 1600's, & 1700's, to prove this beyond a shadow of a doubt.