Fry Cemetery is located on private property about 500 feet West of the intersection of Fry Gap Road and Rock Hill Road in the Fry community, which is about 5.2 miles Southeast from downtown Arab, in Marshall County, Alabama.

A local area history newspaper writer from the early to mid-1900's, J. A. Thomason, wrote that Solomon and Cloe Fry were married on December 15, 1814, in the Fry Cemetery, which is also where they are buried. It is unknown if a cemetery already exited there at the time of their wedding or if it was just the site where the cemetery is now. The first known burial took place in 1840, and Rebecca H. May was the last person buried here, in 1950.

Descendants of the Copeland family buried here, Mary Jo Cochran, Faye Markham, Paul Copeland and Jane Walley, placed and dedicated new markers for their ancestors in 2004. Walley then spent many months in 2006 recording the "cemetery's essence" by sketching the cairns, monuments and partial monuments. She made photographs and prepared an application for the cemetery to be included on the Alabama Historical Cemetery Register. The historical marker was unveiled during the Copeland family reunion, which was attended by some 60 descendants of those buried here, on July 24, 2010.

The Historical Marker reads:
On the hilltop 500 ft. southwest of here, Fry Cemetery typifies rural valley-&-ridge community cemeteries of the 1800's. It served local families of Carnes, Copeland, Cox, Fry, Hinds, Mays, Wilcox and others into the mid-1900's. The Fry family settled here from Virginia when the area was still part of the Mississippi Territory and Philip Fry, buried here in 1840, served in the Revolutionary War. Graves are indicated by cairns, stone slabs and inscribed stones, but many no longer have visible markers.

[Editor's note: The Wilson name was incorrectly printed as "Wilcox" on the marker by mistake.]