FRY, JOHN

FRY, RUNNELS

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/14/2013 at 14:39:41

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 802-3

FRY, JOHN--Farmer, section 31, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born January 8, 1822, in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where he attended school, learned the carpenter trade and worked at the same till 1854, then came to Iowa and settled where he now lives and owns a good farm of 140 acres of improved land, and which he has cultivated since coming here, except the first four years, during which time he worked at his trade. He went to Colorado in 1860, returned to Iowa, and in 1875 moved with his family to Kansas, where he remained till 1879, and then returned. He was married, July, 1855, in Montezuma, to Miss Mary R. Runnels, a resident of this township and a native of Ohio (aged twenty-two). They have two children living: Arthur A. (aged twenty) and Martha E. (aged eighteen), and have buried one son, James L. (born July, 1857, and died September 29, 1878); also, one infant daughter.