David Darst (1757-1826) - Find a Grave Memorial

David Darst Veteran

Birth

18 Dec 1757

Frederick County, Virginia, USA

Death

26 Dec 1826 (aged 69)

St. Charles County, Missouri, USA

Burial

Old Pleasant Hill Methodist Church Cemetery

Darst Bottom, St. Charles County, Missouri, USA Add to Map

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David A. Darst Sr. was the son of Abraham and Mary Durst. He was in the 1st. Independent Co. of Dunmore (Virginia) Militia and participated in the battle of Ft. St. Vincent and Kaskaskia in 1776. In 1780 he was on the roll of Prather's Company of Militia from Kentucky County, Virginia. He married 14 Jan 1784,Rosetta Holman (dau of Henry Holman and Mary Remick) in Lincoln, Kentucky. They moved in 1796 to the Femme Osage District in then Spanish Territory. He recieved Spanish land grant #18. His sons David and Isaac recieved grants # 1643 and 1644. His son Jacob died at the Alamo in Texas. David had two sons and at least 5 grandsons who fought for Texas Independence. David Darst is buried in the graveyard of the old Pleasant Hill Methodist church. His wife Rosetta is buried at St. Aubert (now Mokane) Callaway County, Missouri.

Darst Bottom St. Charles Co. Missouri is named after David Darst.

Husband of Rosetta Holman Darst.

Father of:
Mary Victoria - b. 5 Nov 1784 Woodford Co Kentucky, d before 1806, m. Thomas Smith as his first wife;

Abraham b. 14 May 1786 Woodford Co. Kentucky, d. 23 Dec 1833 Damon's Mound, Brazoria County Texas m. 1st. 1810 Tabitha Callaway and 2 dn aft 1827 to Jemima Brownfield;

Elizabeth Louise b. 7 Jan 1788 Woodford Co. Kentucky, d. before 1828, m. Thomas Smith as his 2 nd wife;

Isaac b. 26 Nov 1789 Woodford Co. Kentucky, d. 8 Dec 1852 St. Charles Countyu Mo. m. ca 1813 Phoebe Bryan, dau of Jonathan, both bur. Isaac Darst Burying Ground;

Sarah b. 18 sep 1791 Woodford Co. Kentucky, d. before 1813, m. John Killebrew;

Jacob C. b. 22 Dec 1793 Woodford Co. Kentucky, d. 6 Mar 1836 at the Alamo, Texas, n, 1 st Elizabeth Bryan, m. 2nd abour 1820 Margaret C. Hughes;

David Holman b. 27 Nov 1795 Woodford County, Kentucky, d. 15 Nov 1869 St,Charles County, Missouri, m. Mary Thompson. both bur Mount Pleasant Methodist Church Cemetery;

Samuel b. 22 June 1798 (prob) St, Charles County Mo. Died young;

Nancy b. 22 Sept 1800, co. before 1850, m. Col. Patrick Ewing.

Inscription

REVOLUTIONARY
SOLDIER
DAVID DARST
1757 1826
PLACED BY
ST. CHARLES CHAPTER
DAR

DAVID DARST
PVT. PRATHER'S CO MILITIA
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
DEC 18 1757 DEC 2 1826

The Parsons Burying Ground was the burying ground for the Thomas Parsons family who came to the area in 1841 and built the large brick house (now on Lee Street, Defiance). They had bought the property from Joseph Haines family. Weather Joseph who d. in 1834 is buried there is not known. The site was used as a cemetery as early as 1811 when Mary A. Moore dau of Zachariah and Alice Moore was buried there. Several others were buried there prior to the arrival of the Parsons family. The first Parsons family member was buried at this site in 1851. The property was in the Parsons family for over 100 years. In the book on St. Charles County Cemeteries it is noted that the Burying Ground was now known as the Pleasant Hill Memorial Methodist Church Cemetery.

The old Pleasant Hill Methodist was a mile south of Defiance on Howell Road. That was the site of the Darst Family Burying Ground and in the 1850's when the Darst family sold land there for the first Pleasant Hill Methodist Church it became the Pleasant Hill Methodist Cemetery. Later after the church was destroyed in a storm the decision was made to rebuild in the village of Defiance. They and the Parsons family maintained the cemetery till the Parsons family sold the property, and the Pleasant Hill Memorial Methodist Church took over the maintance of the Cemetery. This occurred in the 1980's.

Yvonne Prough