Isaac Darst 1823- aft 1880

Isaac Darst (1823-aft 1880); the son of Isaac Darst (1787-1832); the son of Samuel Derst (1754-1791); the son of Abraham Derst (1725-1772), our Pfeddersheim immigrant, could be at times unneighborly...

Another very exciting scene occured in the neighborhood of Louis Bibel's near Bloomington, in which Issac Darst and John Enlow played the first act of the drama. The difficulty grew out of a dispute about a hedge fence, one wanting to cut the hedge down while the other objected. It appears that Darst had began cutting the hedge and Enlow came up and interfered. Some very angry words were used, and finally blows struck, in which Darst got the worst of the racket. He felled the hedge and called on his son to kill Enlow with a hedge-knife, which he held in his hand. About this time a man and a colored woman appeared upon the scene, and took the knife away from the boy, thus preventing what might have been a very bloody conflict.

Monday 13 MAR 1880 - The Decatur Daily Review, Decatur, Illinois