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Christian T. Fry

22 Wednesday Feb 2017

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From “Hardesty’s History of Lincoln County, West Virginia,” published by H.H. Hardesty, we find this entry for Christian T. Fry, who resided at Hart in Lincoln County, West Virginia:

One of the farming population of Hart Creek district, was born in Cabell county, West Virginia, in 1824, and he is a son of John and Catherine (Snodgrass) Fry, natives of Giles county, Virginia. Mr. Fry chose for a help-meet Elizabeth Hunter, and in Boone county, West Virginia, in 1849, they were married. Their children number eight, born as follows: Julia A., April 26, 1850; Anthony, November 1853; Caroline, December 1856; Mary A., August 1859; John H., September 1861; Cora A., September 1864; Hardin, June 15, 1867; Lurana, July 1871. Mrs. Fry was  born in Kanawha county in 1835, and her parents are Robert and Elizabeth (Tayler) Hunter, who reside in Boone county. Christian T. Fry is a prosperous farmer in Hart Creek district, owning 300 acres of good farming land, situated on Browns branch. The land has good improvements, a fine orchard, and a part is heavily timbered with pine, poplar and oak. There is mineral, coal and iron ore in abundance. Mr. Fry’s post office address is Hart, Lincoln county, West Virginia.

Source: The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Vol. 7 (Richwood, WV: Jim Comstock, 1974), p. 134.

NOTE: Christian Thomas “Jack” Fry is my great-great-great-grandfather. I descend through his son, John Henan Fry, who settled on Sulphur Spring Fork of Fourteen Mile Creek. I also descend from two of Christian Fry’s sisters, Emily (Fry) Lucas and Druzilla (Fry) Abbott.

NOTE: The Browns Branch referenced in this history is now called Abbotts Branch.

Harts Creek Area Preachers (1877-1878)

23 Monday Nov 2015

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The following list of Logan County marriages for the period of 1877 to 1878 reveals the names of preachers operating in the Harts Creek area. This is a “working list” and will be updated. The source for this material is “Marriages-Births-Deaths, 1872-1892,” pages 33-36, which is located at the Logan County Clerk’s Office in Logan, WV. Many thanks to the county clerks and their employees who have always been so helpful to my research these past twenty-five years. NOTE: Marriage records for the Lincoln County section of the community are unavailable.

1877

Isaac Fry     22 January 1877     John S. Nester and Malinda Dalton

Canaan Adkins     9 February 1877     Irvin Workman and Emily Abbott

Canaan Adkins     9 February 1877     Bradford Toney and Catherine Sanders

Canaan Adkins     22 March 1877     Abijah Dempsey and Rhoda J. Tomblin

Van B. Prince     10 April 1877     Isaac Workman and Nancy Spry

Isaac Fry     (torn page) 1877     _____ Tomblin and Ph___ Avis

Canaan Adkins     5 July 1877     Alex Tomblin and Louisa Adkins

Canaan Adkins     17 July 1877     George A. Warrick? and Polly Ann Dingess

Canaan Adkins     18 July 1877     John H. Abbott and Caroline Fry

Josephus Workman     31 July 1877     Samuel H. Stollings and Emmazetta Farmer

Canaan Adkins     2 August 1877     James B. Farley and Mary A. Dingess

Van B. Prince     9 August 1877     John Baisden and Peggy Mullins

Van B. Prince     7 October 1877     Hugh Dingess and Viola Dingess

Van B. Prince     15 November 1877     Floyd Dingess and Evaline Hall

1878

Van B. Prince     7 January 1878     Miles A. Browning and Margaret McCloud

James P. Mullins     14 January 1878     Amos B. Lowe and Minerva Baisden

Canaan Adkins     18 March 1878     Thomas J. Farley and Dorcas Kelly

Van B. Prince     27 March 1878     John H. Mullins and Nancy Adkins

Josephus Workman     17 December 1878     French Bryant and Polly Dingess