5-D: Anna Guthrie
Guthrie Family Group 5 – Branch D
Anna Inez Guthrie 1818 OH – 1887 IA and John Harvey
of Ohio and Iowa, USA
ANNA INEZ GUTHRIE aka “ANNIE”
Parents: James C Guthrie 1795 GA – 1862 IA and Nancy Corn 1798 VA – 1857 IA
Birth: 26 September 1818
Birth Location: Jackson County, Ohio, USA
Marriage 1st: John Harvey on 8 December 1835 in Allen County, Indiana, USA
Harvey Children: 6
Marriage 2nd: Solomon Fry bet. 1846-1848
Fry Children: 3
Death: 26 June 1887
Death Location: Red Rock, Marion, Iowa, USA
Burial: Monroe Cemetery, Monroe, Jasper County, Iowa.
JOHN HARVEY
Parents: Unverified (Online Trees list Henderson I Harvey & Martha McConnell)
Birth: Listed in trees as 1791 (unverified). Census records either 1801-1810 or 1811-1820.
Birth Location: Pennsylvania, Unverified
Occupation: Unknown
Military Service: Unknown
Death: September 1845 (Unverified). Between 1844 and 1849.
Death Location: Wells County, Indiana, USA (Unverified)
Burial: Unknown, presumably in Wells County, Indiana, USA
SOLOMON FRY (or FRYE)
Parents: Unverified (Online trees list Andrew Jackson Fry & Susan Magdalena Kepple)
Birth: 1812-1814 (Census-Based Estimate) or 2 September 1815 (If son of above)
Birth Location: Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation: Farmer
Military Service: Unknown
Death: After 1885
Death Location: Unknown, presumably in Red Rock, Marion, Iowa, USA
Burial: Unknown, presumably in Red Rock, Marion, Iowa, USA
NOTES:
Born on 26 September 1818 in Ohio, Anna Inez Guthrie married John Harvey in Allen County, Indiana on 8 December 1835. Online trees list John Harvey as being born in 1791 to Henderson Harvey and wife Martha McConnell of Franklin County, Pennsylvania. If John Harvey is the man from the Wells County, IN census of 1840, then he would be one of the two men enumerated there whose ages are both younger than the 1791 date given for Henderson and Martha’s son, being either 1801-10 or 1811-20. Since Anna was born in 1818, either of those age ranges would seem appropriate. The 1840 census lists 2 sons and 1 daughter under 5 years of age, which is the appropriate configuration for the household at that time if son John Wesley Harvey, born Sep 1840, was not yet delivered. There were 6 children to this marriage. John Harvey reportedly died in 1845 in Murray, Wells, Indiana. No death record has been found for verification.
Anna remarried bet. 1845-1849 to Solomon Fry. They lived in Jasper and Marion Counties, Iowa and had 3 children. In October 1871, Anna sustained serious injuries after being struck in the chest by a galloping horse while out walking with her husband, Solomon Fry. The incident was reported by the Oskaloosa Herald.
Anna died on 26 Jun 1887 in Red Rock, Marion, Iowa and is buried at Monroe Cemetery with her daughter Clara’s family.
HARVEY CHILDREN: 6
FRY CHILDREN: 3
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie and Descendants
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE
CHILD 1: McCONNELL HARVEY aka “MACK”
1837 IN – 1905 TX
Spouse: Mary Jane Harper m. abt. 1870
McConnell Harvey was born 6 April 1837 in Indiana. They resided in Jamestown, Wells, Indiana being enumerated there during the 1840 census: 1M 30-39, 1M & F 20-29, 2M & 1F under 5. John and Anna were parents to 5 sons and 1 daughter. John died in Murray, Wells, Indiana in September of 1845 while his eldest son was only about 7 years of age.
His Guthrie grandparents, James C & Nancy (Corn) Guthrie, removed to Jackson County, Iowa about 1844. It seems that Anna (Guthrie) Harvey and her children followed. The Guthries settled in Jackson County, Iowa by 1850 and by that year Anna had remarried to Solomon Fry giving the young teenage Mack a stepfather. Mack is not listed with the family in Iowa during the 1860 census.
By 1870, Mack had moved to Tenses, Louisiana, was working as a farmer, and married Mary Jane Harper. They settled in Forney, Kaufman, Texas being listed there during the 1880 census. McConnell Harvey, 43, Mary J 33, Elizabeth 9, John 6, Artie 3, and Pearl 1/12. Mack was at that time working as a carpenter, but again took up farming. They added another three children to the family prior to 1890.
Mary Jane died first on 12 March 1904 at the age of 56. She is buried in Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas at New Bayview Cemetery. Mack’ is’s remains are also interred there. He died two years later on 4 July 1906.
Harvey Children: 7
Y-DNA Project Particiapants: N/A – Descendants of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE
1.) Annie Elizabeth Harvey: 1871 LA – after 1900 TX – no further details
2.) John Wesley Harvey: 1874LA – 1958TX (farmer) m.1901TX Elizabeth Pirtle +children
3.) Artie H Harvey: 1878TX – 1902TX – died at 24 years of age, unmarried
4.) Pearl Harvey: abt. Apr 1800TX – aft. 1880 TX – no further details
5.) Jessie May Harvey: 1882TX – 1972CA m.1902TX Thomas Darnell (farmer) +children
6.) Mackie C Harvey: 1886TX – 1905 TX – died at 18 years of age, unmarried
7.) Frank Creese Harvey: 1889TX – 1948OK m.1915TX Betty Nell Fifer +children
CHILD 2: JAMES HENDERSON HARVEY
1838IN – 1862 or 1864TN
Marital Status: Unmarried
James Henderson Harvey was born on 21 August 1838 in Union County, Indiana. He was listed by his middle name at the age of 13 in the 1850 census of District 16, Jasper, Iowa with his parents and siblings. In 1860 he is found working as a farm laborer in Fairview, Jasper, Iowa for David Hankins. When the Civil War broke out, he signed up to fight for the Union.
Family trees indicate that his death occurred during the Battle of Shiloh on 6 April 1862, but there are Civil War Soldier Records for a James H Harvey, DOB 1838IN who enlisted on 3 Sep 1861 as a private soldier being mustered on 14 Sep 1861 in Company K, 3rd Cavalry Regiment. This soldier was promoted to the rank of 6th Sergeant on 29 Sep 1862, was imprisoned at LaGrange, Arkansas on 1 May 1863, later freed. He was again promoted on 2 May 1863 to the rank of 4th Sergeant, but wounded in the line of duty on 11 June 1863 at Ripley, Mississippi and died of his wounds in Memphis, Tennessee. He is buried in Memphis at the Mississippi River National Cemetery. His residence place is listed as Monroe County, Iowa.
Harvey Children: NONE
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie / No Descendants
Autosomal DNA Participants: N/A – No Descendants
CHILD 3: CLARISSA HARVEY
1839 IN – 1919 CO
Spouse: William Richard Phifer m. 29 December 1861 in Jasper County, Iowa, USA
Clarissa Harvey was born on 21 August 1838 in Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana, and known as Clara. She was 11 years old at the time of the 1850 census when her family was living in Jasper, Iowa. She married there on 29 December 1861 to William Richard Pfizer. William and his younger brother John signed up for the Union Army on the same day being assigned to Company G, 23rd Iowa Infantry. After the war, William and Clara remained in Jasper Iowa through the 1880 census when they were listed in Des Moines with their two children, Adda 17, and Sherman 13. They moved to Manitou, Colorado in March 1894. Four years later, William died while on a business trip to Los Angeles. Neither of her children survived her, but her daughter Adda had married Charles Lester and had a son.
Obituary, Decatur County Journal, Thursday, 28 August 1919:
The death of Mrs. William Phifer last Thursday, August 7, was not unexpected, yet it brought a keen sense of bereavement to all residents of Manitou who knew this kind, Godly woman who for a quarter of a century had made her home in this town.
Born near Bluffton, Wells Co., Indiana, August 21, 1839, Clara Harvey was married to Wm. Phifer on December 29, 1861. Two children, a son and daughter, were born to this union. The family moved to Manitou in March, 1894. Four years later the father and husband died while on a business trip to Los Angeles.
The two children followed the father in succeeding years. The daughter was married to Mr. Charles Lester, who with their son, Harvey Lester, his wife and baby, Vivian, and an aged brother of the deceased, Mr. Jerome Harvey, are the surviving relatives.
Mrs. Phifer was well known in church circles and lived a Godly consistent life. Realizing the near approach of her death, she gave intimate instructions as to her funeral and other related matters. At her request the sermon text at the funeral was Matt. 24:44 “Be ye also ready.” The service was held at the Hallett Undertaking parlors in Colorado Springs on Saturday afternoon, and was well attended by Manitou friends. The service was conducted by Rev. Louis Hieb, Pastor, assisted by choir of ladies from the Congregational Church, of which the deceased was a member. The body was taken to Monroe, Iowa, for interment. – Manitou Springs, Colo., Journal.
Phifer Children: 2
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE
1.) Adda Ethreldia Phifer: 1863IA – 1903CO m.1880IA Charles Lester (fuel company teamster) +child
2.) Sherman W. Phifer: 1867IA – 1910CA – unmarried
CHILD 4: HON. JOHN WESLEY HARVEY
1840 IN – 1913 IA
Spouse: Emma Frances Eaton m.1869 in Iowa, USA
John Wesley Harvey was born on 16 September 1840 in Wells County, Indiana. “John W. HARVEY came to Leon from Jasper County, Iowa, in 1868 and was in partnership with Major YOUNG until 1882, when he was elected judge of the District Court. He was a republican.” (History of Decatur County and Its People, Vol. 1)
“Judge John W. Harvey was not only a recognized leader of the bar of Decatur county but for eight years served as judge of the third district, providing able and impartial in the administration of justice. He was also an important factor in the development of banking in his county and his life was one of great usefulness to his community. His birth occurred in Wells County, Indiana, on the 16th of September, 1840, and his parents were John and Annie (Guthrie) Harvey. The father died when our subject was but five years of age and the following year the mother and her six children removed to Jasper County, Iowa where John W. Harvey grew to manhood.”
“In his youth he recognized the advantages of a good education and through his own efforts was able to attend Iowa Central University at Pella. He had previously taken a preparatory course at Indianola and was willing to make any sacrifice in order to achieve his purpose–that of securing a college education. While still a student at the university he enlisted as a private in Company G, Eighteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, joining the army on the 7th of July, 1862. After serving as a private and as a noncommissioned officer he was made first lieutenant of the Eleventh United States Infantry and in the fall of 1865 he received a captains commission. For some time after the close of the war he served in the commissary department of the army but in 1866 was discharged from the service. He led his company in many important battles and his record as a soldier was a most commendable one. Upon his return from the army he continued his interrupted education at Iowa Central University and after a year of further study was graduated from that institution. He then matriculated in the law department of the State University of Iowa and in June, 1868, received his professional degree.”
“Not long afterward, at the request of the late Major J.L. Young, Mr Harvey located at Leon and formed a partnership with Major Young, which was continued for two years, at the end of which time the major withdrew from the firm to enter another line of business. For some time Mr. Harvey continued alone in the practice of law but later was again associated with Major Young, the partnership being maintained until Mr Harvey was chosen judge of the third judicial district. He served upon the bench for two terms, or eight years, and gained an enviable reputation for fairness and integrity. He not only possessed a detailed and exact knowledge of law but also had that attitude of mind that enabled him to consider only the merits of a case and to rise above all prejudices and predilections. He insisted on the members of the bar respecting the dignity of the court but in his rulings was invariably fair and he held in full measure the respect of the attorneys who practiced in the third judicial district. Following the expiration of his second term as judge he formed a law partnership with R. L. Parrish and for eleven years the firm of Harvey & Parrish continued in existence. They represented many important interests and the court records show that they won a large percentage of their cases. When Mr. Parrish was elevated to the district bench Judge Harvey continued alone in practice until he admitted his son, James F Harvey, to a partnership. The firm of John W. Harvey & Son was formed in 1901 and it continued until the demise of the father in 1913. For fifty years Judge Harvey was a resident of Leon and in that time was connected as counsel or as judge with most of the important cases tried in the local courts. He won a wide reputation for his success in the settling of estates, as he was generally able to adjust matters between the heirs and avoid taking the disputes into court. For many years he was prominently connected with the banking interests of his county and from 1894 until his demise was president of the Farmers & Traders State Bank of Leon. He was also for a number of years interested in banks at Lamoni and Mount Ayr.”
“In 1868 occurred the marriage of Judge Harvey and Miss Emma Eaton and to them three children were born: Charles, who passed away in 1892, when nineteen years of age; James, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work; and Raymond, who died in 1891 when an infant. Mrs Harvey is still living and is highly esteemed by all who know her. In 1914 she presented to the city a tract of land on South Main street consisting of three full blocks, to be used as a park. This has been named Harvey Park and a landscape gardener is now at work transforming it into a beautiful spot. The city has been liberal in its appropriations to make the park come up to the anticipations of the generous donor. A brother of Judge Harvey, Jerome L Harvey of Leon, a sister Mrs Clara Phifer, of Manitou Colorado, a half-brother, Taylor Fry, of Montana, and a half-sister, Mrs Mary Coldren, of Oberlin, Kansas, survive him”
“Judge Harvey gave his political allegiance to the republican party but always placed the public good above partisanship. He was always ready to do all within his power to promote the advancement of the community along material, moral or civic lines, giving generously both of his time and money. His kindness and the attractiveness of his personality count many to him by strong ties of affection and he ever considered friendship inviolable. A lover of good literature, he found much enjoyment in the fine library which he owned and his happiest hours were those spent at home with his family. He was a loyal member of the Grand Army of the Republic and took much interest in everything relating to the order and to the veterans of the Civil war. At the time of his death the Decatur County Bar passed resolutions, in which, among other things, it was said: “By his removal the state has lost a learned jurist; the county in which he lived an honorable and noble citizen; the bar (of which he was the senior member) a courteous and obliging brother and his family a loving, faithful and devoted husband and father.”” (History of Decatur County, pp.120-122)
Harvey Children: 3
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE
1.) Charles C Harvey: 1873IA – 1892CO – died at 19 years of age, unmarried
2.) James Francis Harvey: 1877IA – 1946CA (lawyer) m.1877IA Josephine Slattery +children
3.) Raymond W Harvey: 1890IA – 1891IA – died during his infancy
CHILD 5: WILLIAM NICHOLAS HARVEY aka “NICHOLAS C CREEDE”
1842 IN – 1897 CA
Spouse: Nancy Louise White m. 25 May 1893 Las Vegas, New Mexico
“The Millionaire Brother of Judge J. W. Harvey takes his life in Los Angeles.
Yesterday’s daily papers contain an account of the suicide of N. C. Creede, the millionaire founder of the city of Creede, Colorado, who was a brother of Judge J. W. Harvey of this city. His real name was Nicholas C. Harvey, and it is claimed that in his early manhood he becamed involved in a shooting scrape with a man in Marion County and went west, where he assumed the name of Creede and made his fortune by discovering the silver mines where the city of Creede now stands. He was a millionaire several times over, and in 1892 his income was estimated at $1,000 a day.
The Dispatch says:
Los Angeles, Cal., July 13 – Even millions could not make life endurable for N. C. Creede in the face of a pestering wife and ill health. That is why he ended it all yesterday with a dose of morphine.
Creede made a fortune from his Colorado mining ventures, then sold all his mines and came to California to spend the remaining years of his life in peace. For four years past he had lived in the old Northam place, a handsome mansion surrounded by gardens which are among the most beautiful in the city. Yesterday the retired miner seemed anxious and depressed. A wife to whom he had paid $20,000 for a promise that she would never trouble him again, had returned to Los Angeles and was trying to see him.
At dusk the gardener, Frank L. Maas, walked by the summer house, which stands in a little grove of palm trees back of the house. He noticed his master sitting in a rustic chair, with his head thrown back, apparently asleep. Something struck him as wrong and he went into the house and summoned Creede’s brother-in-law, W. M. Phifer. Phifer saw from Creede’s unconsciousness and heavy breathing that he was near death.
The body was carried into the house and placed on the bed and physicians were summoned, but after two hours of desperate battling against death they had to give up. The last spark of life left the body at 9:20 o’clock. Within the hour the deputy coroner and two rival firms of undertakers were squabbling for the body, arguing their respective claims to the corpse and asking for orders that it be turned over to them as soon as the inquest was held. Probably interment will be made at Creede’s former home in Monroe, Iowa.
When Creede’s health began to fail in Colorado and his physicians told him he must go to some milder climate, he sold out his mines and came to California. Here in Los Angeles he bought the beautiful Northam place as a home and the Tally-ho stables as a means of passing the time and occupying his mind.
He had married a Mrs. Paterson, thrice a widow, four years before. No children were born to them, but they adopted a beautiful babe and to this child he became devotedly attached. The babe was the infant of Edith Waters Walker, the adopted daughter of old Captain Waters, owner of the San Miguel Island, who married in San… light parts as an actress.
The young woman gave birth to the child in this city while destitute, and the Creedes adopted it from a foundling asylum. Mrs. Creede, when she subsequently left the millionaire gave as one of her grievances that she did not want the child around.
Jan. 4, 1897, Mr. and Mrs. Creede agreed to dissolve their relationship as far as possible without legal process. A stiplulation was signed by which Mrs. Creede accepted $20,000 cash in hand and surrendered all further claims upon her husband. There were rumors that she was addicted to the use of morphine and that he drank to excess, Mrs. Creede left this city at once.
Three weeks ago she returned here with her niece, Hattie Murphy, but Creede heard of her coming and went to Elsinore Springs with his adopted daughter. Then the two women attempted to gain access to Creede’s house, but they were put off with a story that Creede had gone to Colorado on business.
Last Wednesday Creede returned from the Springs leaving his little girl there. His wife made every possible effort to reach him, but was unsuccessful.
It is the worry occasioned by her persistent attempts to communicate with him that is supposed to have driven him to take his life. Creede leaves about $200,000 worth of real estate here.
All legal steps were taken for the adoption of the child, and in law she has all the rights that would be possessed by a child of his own flesh and blood.
Creede leaves three brothers, lawyer Jerome L. Harvey, of Manitou, Col., Farmer McConnell Harvey, of Forney, Texas; and Judge J. W. Harvey, of Leon, Decatur County, Iowa. His sister, Mrs. W. M. Phifer, is now in Manitou.
Creede’s brother-in-law and servants are full of praise for his unfailing kindness and generosity. He has given thousands of dollars to his brothers, sisters and nieces, and never failed to do everything in his power to make them happy.
N. C. Creede, the man whose discoveries made the camp, afterward the town of Creede, Col., was born near Ft. Wayne, Ind., in 1843, but while yet a child his parents moved to Iowa. There he began to rustle for himself as soon as he was “knee high to a duck,” as he once said in talking on the subject, and in 1861, being then about 19 years old, he entered the service of Uncle Sam, at first in the quartermaster’s department and then as a scout.
He received the pay of a first lieutenant in the regular army, and served with a band of Pawnee warriors in campaigns against the Sioux and other hostile tribes for seven years. This service took him all over thes states of Wyoming, Colorado, Dakota and Nebraska, a portion of the country that was then wholly wild. He was in a good many hard fights, under Major Frank North, with the Indians, but he escaped in every instance without a wound worth mentioning.
After leaving the service he went back to the states, but life was too tame for him there. He had passed most of the seven years during which he served Uncle Sam in the open air – on horseback by day andunder a blanket, with a tent, at best, for a shelter at night. It had been to his taste to live that way from the first, and in 1870 he returned to Colorado.
Then ame the Black Hills mining excitement, when gold was found there, and the rush of fortune seekers forced away the barriers that the Indians tried to keep up. Creede had traveled without seeing anything right over the placer diggings which others found. When he learned about the gold there he at once determined to turn prospector. It was a life just in his taste – a homeless, roaming life, without restraint or responsibility, and with a great fortune for its goal.
He went to New Mexico for a first venture, but was not pleased with either the country or the customs or habits of the Mexicans there, so he came back to Colorado and remained there for eight years, part of the time wandering over the mountains and for the rest rustling for a grub stake. He was serving his apprenticeship. Then he made his first strike. He had wandered off alone into what is known now as the Monarch district and for thriteen days lived there with no one within twenty-five miles of him.
His discovery was rich in possibilities, but he sold out very little and the next summer went down to Silver Creek and built a cabin on its banks and began prospecting the mountains roundabout.
Along toward the end of the summer he uncovered another vein. He had named his first find Monarch; to this, on account of its apparent value, he gave the name of Bonanza. It proved to be an appropriate name for within a year he cleaned up $20,000 – not a bad fortune for a man of 28 years nor a poor reward for nine years of labor.
After that he put in his time prospecting, with varying success, until he made his great discovery. June 25, 1889, he found some float on the easterly side of the mountain. Float is the name given to stray pieces of rock broken from a mineral-bearing vein and sent rolling down the mountain by the action of water and frost.
Creede worked up the mountain side along the line the float must have traveled. It is a steep and rough mountain. The side where the stray one was found stands on an average as steep as 45 degrees. There are perpendicular cliffs more than 500 feet high. There are accumulations of stone called slides so steep tha the dislocation of a single piece is liely to send hundreds of tons of broken, ragged rocks in an irresistable avalanche down to the bed of the East Willow.
Harvey/Creede Children: None Biological
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie / No Descendants
Autosomal DNA Participants: N/A – No Descendants
CHILD 6: JEROME LEROY HARVEY
1844 IN – 1922 IA
Spouse: Margaret Isabella Burns m. 1874
Jerome Leroy Harvey was born about June of 1844 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His marriage to Margaret Isabella Burns about 1874. She was a resident in Decatur County, Iowa in 1870, so the marriage likely occurred there. The couple had two sons: Robert Floyd Harvey in 1875 and Harry D Harvey in 1877. The History of Decatur County (p.12) indicates that “Jerome Harvey and Prof. Frazier will hold a norma school July 22d to continue four weeks” suggesting that he was working as a school teacher. The 1880 census of Leon, Decatur, Iowa lists him as Mayor and Justice. He was appointed postmaster in Leon, Iowa beginning in May 1889. (The Daily Nonpareil, Wed 22 May 1899 and The Morning Democrat, Wed 22 May 1899). In 1903, the Leon Journal-Reporter mentions him as a director of the Leon School Board. Future census records list him with his own income and no occupation, but his death certificate lists him as a lawyer.
The 18 March 1915 edition of The Leon Journal-Reporter posted New Court Cases including Jerome L Harvey vs. H. Graves et al. Suit is brought to foreclose a mortgage on lot 2, block 15, Decatur City, Iowa, given to secure three notes of $50 each, Jas. F. Harvey, attorney for the plaintiff.
The Des Moines Register of Tuesday, 22 Dec 1908 reported:
IOWAN FALLS UNDER CAR
Fender Saves Leon Man, But He Is Unconscious
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 — Special: Jerome L Harvey, an aged farmer from Leon, IA, is in a serious condition as a result of being struck by a street car at Ninth and Main streets while dodging an automobile last night. He has been taken from the receiving hospital to the Clara Barton hospital. That he was not ground to death was be cause of the fender caught him. The speed of the car threw him through the window. Then he fell back to the fender. Harvey suffered concussion of the brain and has not recovered consciousness. Mr and Mrs Harvey arrived in Los Angeles yesterday to remain with their son, Harry D. Harvey, traveling passenger agent of the Manitou & Pikes Peak railroad, for the winter.
Jerome survived the accident. He and his wife returned to Iowa. He died on 18 Oct 1922 at the age of 78 years 4 months and 7 days. His wife Bell survived him by nine years. She struggled with chronic mania and senility for the last decade of her life and had been hospitalized at the Clarinda State Hospital in Clarinda, Iowa. She died 6 days after fracturing her wrist and hip by slipping on a floor. She was 76 years old at her death.
CHILD 7: ENOCH H FRY
1849 IA – 1856
Died Young
Enoch Fry, the eldest son of Anna Inez (Guthrie) Fry and her second husband Solomon Fry, was born about 1849 in Iowa. The 1850 of District 16, Jasper County, Iowa lists him as 1 year of age. Note that the Ancestry transcription of the family in that census year lists the children under the surname McConnel mistaking son Mack Harvey’s name as a surname.
CHILD 8: TAYLOR ZACHERY FRY
1851 IA – 1930 ID
Spouse: Eva Elizabeth Montgomery m. 20 Nov 1878 in Marion County, Iowa
Taylor Zachery Fry was born in Oakaloosa, Jasper, Iowa on 20 November 1851. He was still 8 at the time of the 1860 census when his parents were living in Des Moines. During the 1870 census they were in Red Rock, Marion, Iowa. His father was a farmer, so Taylor was working as a farm laborer, likely on the home farm.
On his 27th birthday on 20 Nov 1878, Taylor married Eva Elizabeth Montgomery. A few years later they relocated to from Custer City, South Dakota to Lost River Valley, Idaho arriving in covered wagons on 15 Sep 1893 after a journey of two months. Taylor was in the farming and sheep business. They raised six children.
Eva died 31 December 1922. Taylor lost his sight in December 1926 and declining health led to a bedfast condition from which he finally succumbed at the age of 78 years on Wednesday, 26 March 1930.
Fry Children: 6
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendants of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE
1) Lillian May Fry: 12 Apr 1880 IA – 30 Dec 1955 AK (m.1902ID) Ulysses Milton Savaria +children
2) William Clyde Fry: 02 Feb 1883 KS – 26 Jan 1900 ID – died at 16 years of age
3) Anna Elizabeth Fry: 26 Jul 1885 KS – 22 Aug 1922 ID (m.1906ID) Laurance Dosite Savaria +children
4) Harry Elmer Fry: 15 Apr 1887 KS – 8 Feb 1955 ID (m.1930ID) Rhoda Jane Bricker -no children
5) Dorothy Eva Fry: 6 Mar 1890 SD – 1 Aug 1940 ID (m.1907ID) Parley Henry Fox +children
6) Florence Ernestine Fry: 22 Jan 1900 ID – 25 Aug 1992 ID (m.1923ID) Pete Corta* +children
* Pedro Cortabitarte Arzu Celaya Arrate
CHILD 9: MARY CANDIS FRY
1855 IA – 1937 KS
Spouse: Eleazar Maine Coldren m. 6 May 1888 in Oberlin, Decatur, Kansas
Born on 27 November 1855 in Des Moines, Jasper, Iowa, Mary Candis Fry was the youngest child in the family. She was listed as 4 years old during the 1860 census. In 1870, the family was living in Red Rock, Marion, IA where they remained through 1885. They moved to Kanas within the next three years. Mary was married in Oberlin, Decatur, Kansas on 6 May 1888 to Eleazer Maine Coldren. She was his third wife. They remained in Kansas where Eleazer worked as an editor. There were several children from the previous marriages, but it appears that only the youngest three survived: Minerva ‘Minnie’ Alice (1879), Edwin Weaver (1880), and Philip Ray (1882). Mary and Eleazer had three children born between 1879 and 1895. He died 10 June 1922 at 76 years of age. Mary was 9 years younger. She lived until 17 September 1937. They are buried at the Oberlin Cemetery in Oberlin, Decatur, Kansas.
Coldren Children: 3
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendants of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE
1) Anna Josephine Coldren: 18 Nov 1889 KS – 28 May 1968 WA (m.abt.1915) Austin E Dodd +children
2) John Harvey Coldren: 21 Aug 1892KS – 18 Feb 1893KS – died in his infancy
3) Harry Maine Coldren: 10 May 1895 KS – 1 May 1946 KS (m1. 1917NE) Opal Dean Thornburg +children
READING and RESOURCES
DOCUMENTS: Wells County, Indiana Civil Order Books, 1837-1921
Online Index and Records are in ‘locked’ status at Family Search.
DOCUMENTS: Wells County, Indiana – Probate Records, 1837-1922
Online Index to Estate Files and Probate Order Books are in ‘locked’ status at Family Search.
DOCUMENTS: Wells County, Indiana – Deed Records, 1837-1901
Online Deed Index and Deed Records are in ‘locked’ status at Family Search.
DOCUMENTS: Jasper County, Iowa – Deed Records, 1848-1961
Online General Index to Deeds and Deed Records are in ‘locked’ status at Family Search.
p.359 The grand jurors drawn for the August sitting (1851) of the District Court (included) Solomon Fry.
DOCUMENTS: Jasper County, Iowa – County Court Minute Book, 1846-1855
FHL 07592902 Item 2 – Online viewing is in a ‘locked’ status at Family Search
BOOK: Foote, CM and Hood, EC. 1887. Plat Book of Jasper County, Iowa, Published by CM Foote & Co., Minneapolis, Minn. Digital Repository: Family Search.
DOCUMENTS: Jasper County, Iowa – Probate Records, 1846-1911, Index, 1849-1928
Online General Index to Probate Records and Probate Records are in a ‘locked’ status at Family Search.
BOOKS: Weaver, James Baird – Past and Present of Jasper County, Iowa, Volumes 1 and 2, Published by B.F. Bowen, 1912, Indianapolis, Indiana.
DOCUMENTS: Jasper County, Iowa – Land Records, 1855-1932
FHL 101408541 – General Land Index 1, 1855-1859 – Letter F Grantors begins IMG18 of 102
FHL 101408541 – General Land Index 1, 1855-1859 – Letter F Grantees begins IMG68 of 102
FHL 101548085 – General Land Index 2, – Letter F Grantors begins IMG 40 of 130
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