Here's a link to Benjamin Franklin Fry, a soldier and gospel minister, who was born in Wilkes Co. GA, died in Texas, is buried at Jeddo, in Bastrop County, TX. His grave is marked by the state of Texas as an early patriot, who served in the 1830s in the Texas war for independence from Mexico. His father, also named Benjamin, owned land in Wilkes and Franklin Counties as early as 1785. Harold Hopkins http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/FF/ffr17.html