This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gUX.2ACEB/230.1 Message Board Post: I have a Griffin Fryer, born in Broome, N.Y., March 20, 1818. During the Gold Rush Griffin Fryer moved to California during the Gold Rush, remaining there for two years when he returned to his native state. On March 30, 1851 he married the widow Betsey Rice Weed somewhere in Wisconsin. In 1854 they came to Minnesota and located at Frankford, Mower county, until the last four years of his life when he moved to Spring Valley. They had two sons, William and Thomas. I have found other Fyers in the area, including some that joined a MN unit in the Civil War.