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:
I am fairly familiar with the Fry family of the Fry
Cemetery (my husband's ancestors), I had visited the
cemetery a few times, a number of years ago. I have
some conflicting & additional info to add to Bill
Waters' (immediately below). The last time I was
there, 18 yrs. ago, several stones had been recently
unearthed from the spongy ground by Oliver Fay, a
descendant of the Feays. Since then, they apparently
have sunk back into the ground or weathered to the
point where they are difficult to read. I am
enclosing my list. You will note some differences in
a few names & dates.
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
____________________
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 |
-source: Bill
Waters walked Fry cemetery in June 2004 and recorded
these tombstone inscriptions
-contributed by Bill Waters, June 2004
_______________
ca1930 WPA records
| 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 |
|
-source: WPA cemetery records
-transcribed by Phyllis Montour
Important notice to researchers: WPA records are known
to be incomplete & may contain errors - please
use as a guide only.
|
