George Dierlam Family Bible
Here’s great information about John Dierlam and Kate Coward from the Calhoun County Texas message board (and mailing list) on RootsWeb. The original transcript is here:
Author: Shirley Wells
Date: 22 Jan 2003 1:22 AM GMT
Searching for info on John Dierlam and his wife, Katherine Coward. Their daughter, Annie Marie Dierlam, was b Jan. 15, 1872 in Seadrift, Calhoun Co, TX and died May 12, 1954. Where? Buried where? She md James Ryan Sims on Aug. 12, 1862 in Calhoun Co. Who was his father? Thanks!
Author: georgia
Date: 23 Jan 2003 5:25 AM GMT
Hi,
Are you sure James Ryan Sims and Annie Dierlam were married in Calhoun county. I have Calhoun county marriage list and a Texas Marriages CD and didn’t find them in Calhoun county.
Here’s what I did find
James R. Sims - Eliza Dierlam m.Jul. 15, 1886 Goliad co.
James Sims - Annie Dierlam m. Aug. 17, 1888 Jackson co.
for Calhoun I found the following
Birdie Sims - John Dierlam Jr. May 1. 1882
Esther C. Sims - T.F. Stephenson Oct. 20, 1867
Jessie Sims - William Dierlam Dec. 20, 1884
Margaret Sims - Felix Hill Nov. 5, 1872
mgr
Author: Shirley Wells
Date: 24 Jan 2003 7:04 PM GMT
Hi! I made a mistake in copying from one pedigree chart to another; sorry! James Ryan Sims md. three times: Eliza Dierlam, Annie Maria Dierlam and Betty Orenda Newman. My info: James Ryan Sims b June 8, 1867 Corpus Christi, TX d Aug. 2, 1962 El Campo, Wharton Co., TX. #2. Annie Maria Dierlam b Jan. 15, 1872 Seadrift, Calhoun Co., TX, d May 12, 1954.
Author: georgia
Hi,
Is it possible James Ryan Sims and wife Annie are both buried in Lost Prong Cemetery, Louise, Wharton co. Tx.
According to info on the LDS site they are and Bettie Newman is also buried there.
Don’t know if the info is correct as they have James married to Eliza Coward before 1888, Annie Dierlam before 1890 and Bettie Newman 12 Aug 1903.
The LDS site and Ancestry.com both have information about this family.
Today I talked to a woman who married a Dierlam. She told me there is a relative who has been researching for many years and has lots of information. She is going to find out if she will share.
Author: Linda Bevell
Date: 24 Jan 2003 2:25 AM GMT
I would be interested in the Dierlam info as My Greatgrand mother was Roberta Sims Dierlam. But also I would appreciate any info you might have on John William Jones and Etta Blanch Brown they are my grandparents on my father side. My father is Reginald Vance Jones and my aunt was Faye Jones Morgenroth.
Author: georgia
Date: 28 Feb 2003 9:33 PM GMT
Have you read “Seadrift Memories”?
I says
Fay Etta Morgenroth was born April 3, 1907 in Waxahacie, Texas. The family moved to Seadrift in 1912. Her father ran a feed store. The name of the store was “Jones Feed Store”. Their old home still stands and belongs to Dora Hall now. Her dad had a 145 acre farm, located in the Grisshom area.
“Seadrift Memories ” was written in 1986
mgr
Author: Linda Bevell
Date: 1 Mar 2003 11:28 PM GMT
I read the Post about Fay Etta Are you saying her father had the acreage. Do you know any thing about her father’s mother or Father or her Mother Etta Blanche Brown Jones
Author: MGR
Date: 12 Apr 2003 4:38 AM GMT
Yes, it was her father and all I know is what is in the book.
mgr
Author: Linda Bevell
Date: 17 Apr 2003 8:10 PM GMT
Where can I get the Book
Author: Linda Bevell Date: 19 Jul 2005 12:03 AM GMT
Do you know where I can get a seadrift memories book today? Also cna you help me with any history on Fay etta Jones Morgenroth’s Granf Father William Edward Jones?
Author: linda hahn
Date: 29 Aug 2005 9:57 PM GMT
Can you tell me anything more about Katherine Coward? Her birth date, state where born or who her parents were? Even if any sisters or brothers are known. Anything might help me to find my Katherine. Thanks.
Author: Edward Barnard
Date: 2 Feb 2006 8:39 PM GMT
I have a birth certificate for Needham Dierlam (my great grandfather) showing parents John Dierlam and Kate Coward, and stating John Dierlam served in the Civil War. The info I have for Kate says she was born 1848 in Calcasieu Parish Louisiana, and died in Seadrift. Her great-grandfather was Needham Dierlam, a Revolutionary War Patriot recognized by the DAR.
George and Mary Dierlam and family came to Indianola from Germany 1848. They’re on the 1850 census of Calhoun County as “Delam.”
I’d love to compare notes with anyone researching this line. Please contact me 
Author: Angela Mcknight
Date: 7 May 2006 5:08 AM GMT
Catherine Coward, married to Johannes C. Dierlam, is the descendant of
Needham William Coward and Elizabeth Ann Perkins
Isaac Hardy Coward and Elizabeth Bates
Needham Coward and Easter Phoebe Blount
Edward Coward, Sr, and Dorcas Roberts
John Coward and Elizabeth Griffin
Elizabeth Ann Perkins is the d/o
Rees Perkins, SR, and Martha Morgan
Elizabeth Bates is the d/o
Richard Bates, Jr, and Elizbeth Jane Weathersbee
I have more information on this family if you would like to e-mail me.
Angela McKnight
Author: Angela Mcknight
Date: 7 May 2006 4:58 AM GMT
George Dierlam, born 8 Mar 1808, in Metz (Nietz) Germany, died 10 Oct 1851 in Seadrift, Calhoun, TX. He was married to Anna Maria Schneider, born 17 April 1816 in Darmstdadt, Germany, died 15 Sept 1862 in Seadrift. He immigrated from Darmstadt, Vadenrod, a branch of the parish of Hopfgarten in Hesse, Germany. They came to America in 1848 so George could escape military training. They landed in New York cir 1848.
Their children were
Christian T. Dierlam, 6 July 1841(Germany) - 25 Dec 1920 in Seadrift. He was married 3 times - to Frances Esther Ahlert, Elizabeth Williams, and Florence Davis.
Johannes C. Dierlam, 10 Oct 1844 (Darmstadt, Germany) - 8 Dec 1924 in Seadrift. He was married to Catherine Coward, born 1848, d/o Needham William and Elizabeth Ann Perkins. Catherine was one of 10 children. Her brother, Needham Coward, married Augusta Cora Dierlam.
Wilhelm (William) Dierlam, born 2 Jan 1847 Germany, died in 1854 in Seadrift. If I remember right, he was gored by a bull.
When they were coming over on the ship to America, there was another child that died. It was either a twin to Wilhelm or a younger sibling.
Augusta Cora Dierlam - born 10 July 1850 in Seadrift, died 6 Nov 1910 in Seadrift. She married Needham Coward.
Mary Dierlam, born 1852, died in 1928. She married Thomas Decro Jordan.
My grandmother was Gertrude Coward, d/o
George L Coward, s/o
Allen Nelvil Coward and Henrietta Francis Dierlam, whose parents were Needham William Coward and Elizabeth Ann Perkins, and Christian T. Dierlam and Frances Esther Ahlert, respectively.
My grandmother had the Dierlam family Bible, but it burned in a fire in the late 1970’s or early 1980’s.
If you would like anymore info, please e-mail me.
Angela McKnight
June 29th, 2006 at 8:57 pm
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April 25th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
I have written copies of information I had on floppy disk (back before CD’s were popular) but the disk has evaporated. I have information on the Dierlams back into Germany in 1702, with one of the family lines back to 1610. I also have a picture of John Dierlam and Katherine Coward taken about 1908, and picutres of Annie Maria Dierlam Sims as a young woman, John Coward Dierlam as a young man, Alice Elizabeth (Dolly) Dierlam Roemer as a young woman, Joseph “Bud” Dierlam as a young man, Addison Dierlam as a youngish man, a picture of Bud, Dolly, Needham, and Lillie in their older years, and Lillie among her husbands family about 1912.
I have visited family graves in the Bindewald Cemetery in Seadrift (graves of George and Mary Dierlam, the immigrants) and I paid to have those stones preserved. I also have some pictures from the Steinburg cemetery off Dierlam Street with some of the family buried there. John and Katherine are buried there but their graves are not marked.
I have a copy of the birth certificate for John Dierlam (1844)
I also have the Coward/Cowart line back to the immigrant ancestor James Coward and his son William (1691/1698 - 1728).
I will be glad to share what information I have. I wrote this all up in 1993 and have it only in written form which takes a whole notebook. I may try to get it scanned, but that has not been done yet.
=Alice