The Andrew Zumwalt Family


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The Durst and Darst Families of America, Vol II


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Sanford Gladden traces the history of the Durst/Darst family and some 40 other related families from their European roots to Philadelphia in Colonial times. They migrated to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, to Delaware and Pickaway Counties in OH and on to Texas. Some of the related surnames are: Beck, Cecil, Chandler, Charlton, Cozad, Craig, Damon, Deam, Dill, Eaton, Ewing, Fry, Glendy, Glotfelter, Grigsby, Guy, Harshman, Haynes, Holman, Huston, Jamison, Keithly, Kennedy, Kent, Lightner, Marshall, Morgan, Orman, page, Perrins, Ramsey, Selling, Stroop, Trolinger, and Weiser among other smaller branches.










The Andrew Zumwalt Family


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Andrew Zumwalt and his younger brother immigrated to America in 1737 and settled first at Baltimore, Maryland, where he and his wife, Mary, were married. They then settled on a farm in Little York, York County, Pennsylvania. They had five children born in York County. Mary died ca. 1748. He married 2) Ann Regina, a native of Switzerland. They had six children, ca. 1750-ca. 1759. The family migrated to Frederick County, Virginia, ca. 1751. Andrew Zumwalt died in Frederick County in 1764. Children, grandchildren and great grandchildren lived in Virginia, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois and elsewhere. Chiefly follows male lines only.




Genealogies in the Library of Congress


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Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.




Centennial History of Missouri


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The Durst and Darst Families of America with Discussions of Some Forty Related Families


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Abraham Durst (d.1772) was a possible son of Abraham Durst the emigrant who came to Philadelphia in 1743 and settled at Reading Borough, Berks Co., Pennsylvania in 1790. He married Mary and they were one of the first families to settle in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. They owned land in Frederick and Shenandoah County. He died in Dunmore Co. They were the parents of Abraham, Isaac, Mary, David, Samuel, Benjamin, Joseph and Paul. Family members lived in Dunmore, Frederick, Franklin, Shenandoah and Rockbridge Counties, Virginia and Meigs Co., Ohio.