Fry Cemetery Farmersburg, Sec. 26, NW/NE Grand Meadow twp. |
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Below are three sets of records from this cemetery.
1987 records
Name | Birth | Death | Inscription |
Feay, Alexander JR | 06/19/1850 | aged 2 yrs., 2 mo., 2 ds | |
Feay, Alexander | 05/26/1867 | aged 62 yrs., 8 mo., 19 ds | |
Feay, Christena | 12/04/1862 | wife of Alexander Feay; aged 46 yrs., 3 mo. | |
Fry, Elizabeth | 01/12/1871 | wife of George Fry; aged 90 years | |
Fry, George | 11/26/1863 | aged 85 years | |
Feay, G.W. | 06/14/1863 | aged 23 yrs., 4 mo., 4 ds | |
Fry, Henry | 08/08/1821 | 08/13/1878 | |
Fry, Sarah Jane | 08/09/1877 | Wife of Henry Fry, aged 39 yr & 1d [age may be 33 yrs] | |
Pixler, James E. | 10/08/1868 | Son of G. O. & S. Pixler, Aged 1 yr 4 Mo 27 days | |
Pixler, twin - male | 07/23/1890 | (no known stone) aged 3 days, died of premature birth in Grand Meadow & buried in family cemetery (Clayton County Iowa Register of Deaths 1880-1897, v.1, p.76) | |
Pixler, twin - female | 07/26/1890 | (no known stone) aged 5 days, died of premature birth in Grand Meadow & buried in family cemetery (Clayton County Iowa Register of Deaths 1880-1897, v.1, p.76) |
Notes from contributor: All eleven of the known burials in this cemetery were related by blood or marriage. The patriarch and matriarch were George and Elizabeth Fry, who arrived in Clayton County on April 23, 1850. They ran what may have been the first hotel in Grand Meadow Township, the Fry Hotel, also in the same NE1/4 of Sec. 26, as the cemetery. Their three children who accompanied them were Christiana Christena, who married Alexander Feay, Sr.; Henry, who married Sarah Jane Shriner; and Eliza J., who married James M. Pixler (The latter two are buried in the Postville Cemetery). Alexander, Jr. and George W. Feay were sons of Alexander Feay, Sr., by his first marriage. His daughter by that same marriage, Susannah, married Gasper Orth Pixler and their infant son, James E., was buried here. Finally, Eliza Fry Pixler had a son, George, who farmed the land adjoining the cemetery. It is believed that the twins were from his marriage to Maie Eva Harmon. I believe the WPA records (far below) refer mainly to a single Fry family monument. S.J. Fry is listed on the monument without dates but is the same as the Sarah Jane Fry listed on a separate stone. This cemetery was registered as the George Fry Cemetery, on January 1, 1865, by Henry Fry, approximately 1 acre in the SW corner of the NE 1/4 of Sec. 26, T95, R6, Grand Meadow Township, Clayton County, Iowa. -contributed by Ann O'Leary, October 2005 from her cemetery notes dated October 30, 1987 |
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2004 records
Name | Birth | Death | Inscription |
Fry, Alexander | 05/26/1867 | aged 8 yr. | |
Fry, Elizabeth | 01/12/1871 | aged 90 years | |
Fry, George | 11/26/1868 | aged 85 years | |
Fry, Henry | 08/08/1821 | 08/13/1878 | |
Fry, Sarah Jane | 08/09/1877 | Wife of Henry Fry, Aged 39 yr & 1d | |
Pixler, James E. | 10/08/1868 | Son of G. O. & S. Pixler, Aged 1 yr 4 Mo 27 days |
Bill Waters walked Fry cemetery in June 2004 and recorded these tombstone inscriptions
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ca1930 WPA records
~transcribed by Phyllis Montour
Fry, Elizabeth | (no dates) | ||
Fry, George | (no dates) | ||
Fry, Henry | 1821 | 08/13/1878 | |
Fry, S. J. | (no dates) | ||
Fry, Sarah Jane | 1844 | 08/09/1877 |
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