Tombstone Tuesday

I bet you have never heard of this surname before.

I am fairly certain it was made up or perhaps was McDiarmit.

If I google 'Diarmit' I know how each individual is related.

I have heard the story about 4 brothers coming to the US and each changed their name once here.

I don't know if that is true, but there are names similar phonetically but spelled differently all located in a relatively close geographical area.

D'Yarmett, DeArmit, Diarmid -versions are found in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

My earliest know Diarmit is Thomas Diarmit b. abt 1788 Kentucky

Thomas married Lydia Bill b. abt 1794 Kentucky, and they had 4 known children:

Andrew Diarmit b. abt 1817 Kentucky

*Henderson Diarmit b. Dec 1819 KY

Sarah Diarmit b.abt 1826 KY

Thomas b. abt 1828 KY

Henderson Diarmit married Elizabeth Meadows and had 10 known children:

Leanner Diarmit 1846-? (m. Robert Joel Coghill)

Sarah Catherine Diarmit 1848-1922 (m. John N Coghill)

Eliza J Diarmit 1851-? (m. Francis M Webb)

Mary Ellen Diarmit 1852-? (m.Thomas Richardson)

William Jackson Diarmit 1853-?

Martha Diarmit 1855-1912 (m. Marcus L Harmon)

*Jerome Diarmit 1857-1943 married Mary Ellen Wiley

Alpheus Diarmit 1859-1942 

Mattie B Diarmit 1861-? (m. Alonso Bright and George Heady)

Nancy Ella Diarmit 1866-1941 (m.Marion G. Piles)

Jerome Diarmit and Mary Ellen Wiley had 6 known children. There may have been 7 but I haven't been able to prove that with documentation.

Effie Diarmit 1881-1976 (married Theodore Dunn)

Oscar Diarmit 1883-1954 (married Fannie G ?)

Mattie Diarmit 1885-1953 (married Louis M Stockdale)

Leota C Diarmit 1890-1967 (married Edward C Williams)

Ernest Diarmit 1892-1949 (married Eliza H Preston)

*Paul Bryan Diarmit 1894-1961 (married Helen A Sullivan)

I sure wish I knew more about the origin of this name as well as the other names that are so close to it.