Son of Henry V. Frey (1808-1875) and Belinda Quine (1809-1875), of Logan Co., KY, and a descendant of the PA German Freys who came to America from their home in Alsace, France, and later migrated to NC in the 1760s to join in the settlement of the Moravian Church communities beginning to take root there. Martin married Lucetta (Lucy) Rust in Robertson Co., TN, in July 1859. In 1866, the family removed to IL and soon after to MO; in 1870, they relocated to TX, eventually settling in Caldwell Co. Martin and Lucy separated in their final years, and he is said to have moved around, staying temporarily with one relative and then another. Children: Susan Olive (Ollie); Elizabeth Baker (Lizzie); Thomas Henry; Franklin Van Buren; John Wm.; Margaret Louella; Mancil Fredonia; and George Marvin.
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Martin Van Buren Frey, a native of Tennessee, who moved to Illinois in 1864, was a farmer. From Illinois he went to Missouri, farming there five years, and in 1870 migrated overland, in wagons, with his family, to Dallas county, Texas, a year later locating in Caldwell county, where the family lived until 1887. Both father and mother are still living. (Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910
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Martin Van Buren Frey, a native of Tennessee, who moved to Illinois in 1864, was a farmer. From Illinois he went to Missouri, farming there five years, and in 1870 migrated overland, in wagons, with his family, to Dallas county, Texas, a year later locating in Caldwell county, where the family lived until 1887. Both father and mother are still living. (Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910
Son of Henry V. Frey (1808-1875) and Belinda Quine (1809-1875), of Logan Co., KY, and a descendant of the PA German Freys who came to America from their home in Alsace, France, and later migrated to NC in the 1760s to join in the settlement of the Moravian Church communities beginning to take root there. Martin married Lucetta (Lucy) Rust in Robertson Co., TN, in July 1859. In 1866, the family removed to IL and soon after to MO; in 1870, they relocated to TX, eventually settling in Caldwell Co. Martin and Lucy separated in their final years, and he is said to have moved around, staying temporarily with one relative and then another. Children: Susan Olive (Ollie); Elizabeth Baker (Lizzie); Thomas Henry; Franklin Van Buren; John Wm.; Margaret Louella; Mancil Fredonia; and George Marvin.
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Martin Van Buren Frey, a native of Tennessee, who moved to Illinois in 1864, was a farmer. From Illinois he went to Missouri, farming there five years, and in 1870 migrated overland, in wagons, with his family, to Dallas county, Texas, a year later locating in Caldwell county, where the family lived until 1887. Both father and mother are still living. (Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910
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Martin Van Buren Frey, a native of Tennessee, who moved to Illinois in 1864, was a farmer. From Illinois he went to Missouri, farming there five years, and in 1870 migrated overland, in wagons, with his family, to Dallas county, Texas, a year later locating in Caldwell county, where the family lived until 1887. Both father and mother are still living. (Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910
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