FRY, WILLIAM

FRY, SHILDIZ, DRAKE, CUNNING

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/14/2013 at 14:49:59

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 803

FRY, WILLIAM--Farmer, section 20, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born April 1, 1842, in Holmes county, Ohio, where he lived till 1847, when he came with his parents to Iowa and settled in this township. After receiving his education he engaged in working on a farm, and in 1866 settled on his present farm of 180 acres of well improved land. (Thomas) his father was one of the commissioners who laid out the town of Montezuma, he being one of the pioneers of this county; he died December 26, 1874, aged seventy-five; William's mother (Julia Ann) died in 1861, aged sixty-one. Mr. Fry has been twice married; first, November 8, 1866, in Harrison county, Ohio, to Miss R.J. Shildiz, born in Ohio, 1844, she died after a lingering illness, March 24, 1872, leaving many friends and relatives. Mr. Fry's second wife was Mrs. A.M. Drake, December 8, 1874, a resident of Brooklyn, born in Ohio, 1842; they have one daughter, Julia O. (born July 18, 1880), buried an infant daughter (July 1, 1876), also a son, James O.C. (March 8, 1880, aged two years and five months). Mrs. Julia E. Cunning, mother of Mrs. Fry, now in her seventy-ninth year, is living with Mr. and Mrs. Fry.