Re: Uizziah Show,1817,OH.
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In reply to:
Re: Uizziah Show,1817,OH.
David Burns 2/22/02
Wrong, not his Sarah:
ENOCH FRY, farmer. P. O. Dunkirk, was born February 2, 1830, in Coshocton County, Ohio. He came to Hardin County when three years of age. Is a farmer by occupation, and owns fifty-nine acres of land in Blanchard Township. For nearly six years, he was working in California, where, at Point Deception, off San Francisco, he was wrecked, and robbed of $800 by the purser. He returned to Hardin County in 1855. He enlisted in the Ninth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Company B, and served until the close of the war; was struck twice at Vicksburg and once at Pea Ridge. On the 12th of October, 1869, he was united in marriage to Sarah A., born June 8, 1830, in Ross County, Ohio, widow of Thomas Smith and daughter of Samuel and Cathem (Holverstott) Strausser- Mr. and Mrs. Fry have no children of their own, so they adopted a child-William E., born September 10, 1876, aged two weeks at the time of his adoption. Mrs. Fry was married to her first husband in 1850, in Marion County, by whom she had five children, two deceased. Mr. Fry and his wife are members of the Christian Church, in which the former was at one time a Deacon. Mr. Fry has filled the office of School Director, and is one of the useful citizens iiof Blanchard Township.