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The committee used electronic media to reach Darr family members. Email contacts were pursued and the following poster was included in the Darrtown Facebook page and several Darrtown.com newsletters.
Members of the Darrtown Bicentennial Steering Committee deemed it fitting that they attempt to locate and invite descendants of Conrad Darr to the 200-year celebration.
Darr Descendants
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This is the poster used in the campaign to find and invite Darr descendants to the 200-year celebration.
BELOW:
This image shows a copy of Conrad Darr's orginal plat of Darrtown.
Reproductions, suitable for framing, were presented to all the Darr descendants who attended the 2014 Bicentennial.
RIGHT:
Seen here are four descendants of Conrad Darr who made the trip back to the village that he created 200 years ago.
Darr descendants return to Darrtown!
Eight people, who self-identified as Darr descendants, attended the Bicentennial. They included:
James Darr
Marianne Darr Norman
Russ Darr
Brian Black
Donald Raymond Sherer
Martha (Sherer) Bray
Lynne Sherer Sitkiewicz (Conrad Darr's 4th great-granddaughter)
Joye (Hutchings) Wilcoxon (88 years old, traveled alone, from Paris, Illinois, to attend the Bicentennial.)
Joye Wilcoxon (center) is holding a copy of the Oakland Independent newspaper of Oakland, Illinois. According to the newspaper's About Us page, the Independent is "an independently owned weekly newspaper covering the Oakland-Hindsboro community in rural Illinois. We provide important local news, as well as fun and quirky material that readers won't find anywhere else,"
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