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Andrew Fry

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Andrew Fry

Birth
Pennsylvania, USA
Death
5 Jun 1879 (aged 82)
Fulton County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Astoria, Fulton County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Date of birth calculated, based-upon age at the time of death: 5 June 1879 - aged 82y 11m 11d.
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Husband of Susannah Cramer.
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Son of [Name?] Fry and [Name?] Cox-Fry.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH [about his son]: 0. P. Fry, farmer, and stock raiser sec. 9; P.O. Astoria.

The grandfather of Oliver P. Fry [Andrew's son] was a native German, and when Revolution began he enlisted under the banner of the new Republic. Long prior to the war, he came to Pennsylvania. He married at the close of the war, Miss Cox, by whom he raised a family of children.

Andrew Fry, the father of O.P., the second child, in youth became employed in a machine shop and helped to build first boiler in Brownsville Pa. He came to Knox Co., Ohio, where he married Susanna Cramer, who bore him 3 children, 2 of whom yet survive. In 1845 Andrew Fry came to Astoria tp., began farm, and proved successful; he died during the winter of '78 [sic] {Summer of '79}. The death of Mrs. F. occurred 4 vears prior to that of her husband.

SOURCE: History of Fulton county, Illinois, page 433 (of 1090 pages). 1879 - Chapman, Chas. C., & co., Peoria, Il.
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Nota bene: comments inside of brackets [] and braces {} are those of the F.A.G. contributor.
Date of birth calculated, based-upon age at the time of death: 5 June 1879 - aged 82y 11m 11d.
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Husband of Susannah Cramer.
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Son of [Name?] Fry and [Name?] Cox-Fry.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH [about his son]: 0. P. Fry, farmer, and stock raiser sec. 9; P.O. Astoria.

The grandfather of Oliver P. Fry [Andrew's son] was a native German, and when Revolution began he enlisted under the banner of the new Republic. Long prior to the war, he came to Pennsylvania. He married at the close of the war, Miss Cox, by whom he raised a family of children.

Andrew Fry, the father of O.P., the second child, in youth became employed in a machine shop and helped to build first boiler in Brownsville Pa. He came to Knox Co., Ohio, where he married Susanna Cramer, who bore him 3 children, 2 of whom yet survive. In 1845 Andrew Fry came to Astoria tp., began farm, and proved successful; he died during the winter of '78 [sic] {Summer of '79}. The death of Mrs. F. occurred 4 vears prior to that of her husband.

SOURCE: History of Fulton county, Illinois, page 433 (of 1090 pages). 1879 - Chapman, Chas. C., & co., Peoria, Il.
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Nota bene: comments inside of brackets [] and braces {} are those of the F.A.G. contributor.


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