Hello Charles Wyly, I would appreciate any information you or anyone else might have on my family. I find my Grandfather Bartlett FRY (b 1843) in the 1870 census in Stephenville with wife Amanda ?, and daughter Nancy one year old. I would love to know who this Amanda was, as I do not find marriage records for them. My grandfather's brother Thomas J. FRY is also living in Stephenville with wife Elizabeth Sylvina CARMACK. Thomas and "Vinnie" as she was called, had three daughters. Florence Nightengale FRY (b. 1867 in Stephenville) married James Miller STEPHEN in 1887 in Erath county. Florence and James children were: Olin (b 1887) in Stephenville, Ethel Abbarilla (b 1891) married Elvest C. POND in 1917, and Edith Ester (b 1897) married a Mr. Hays. Thomas and Vinnie's second daughter was Susan FRY (b 1871) in Stephenville and the third daughter was Julia FRY (b 1875). Julia married N. Bates COX in Stephenville in 1895. Julia had a daughter named Nieta COX born 1895 in Stephenville. In 1880 my grandfather's other brother Isaac Newton FRY is living in Erath county with wife Narcissus COOK. In the 1880 census my Great Grandmother Delilah (FRY) MCNEILL is living with her son Isaac FRY. I think at that time they were living in Clairette. My Great Grandmother died after 1880 probably in Calirette. Do not know where she is buried - probably no marker. Isaac & Narcissus had a daughter Mary Safronia FRY (b 1873) near Greens Creek, between Alexander & Stephenville. Mary Safronia (Fronie for short) married Fred ULOTH in Walnut Springs (Bosque county) in January of 1900. Isaac & Narcissus also had a son, Newton Franklin FRY (Newt was b 1887) in Clairette. Newt married first Ruth SALMON then Anna BLAKELY. My grandfather Bartlett FRY's oldest son, George David FRY married Mary (Mollie) Hanson HOPE in 1899 at the Stephenville courthouse. Aunt Mollie was married previously to a Lee DAVIDSON and had a son by Lee. Their son was Rector Lee DAVIDSON. Aunt Mollie's parents (Rector Christman HOPE & Sarah Jane LUSTER) raised Rector DAVIDSON in Johnsville. Rector married Vinnie SHAW. My uncle David FRY was a blacksmith in the community of Johnsville. My cousin Lola was born in Johnsville on January 29, 1902. Lola is still living. She was 96 years old in January of 1998. She still remembers the community of Johnsville and talks about it often. She said they lived above the blacksmith shop and when she was 2 or 3 days old the blacksmith shop burned at night. All they got out with was the clothes on their back. It was in January and there was snow on the ground and very cold. Uncle David left Johnsville in 1907 and moved to Hamilton. In the summer of 1909 - August or September - they moved to west Dallas where Uncle David was again a blacksmith. In 1910 Uncle David contracted typhoid - he almost died. His brother John FRY, who lived next door and was also a blacksmith, did die on Feb. 10, 1910 of typhoid. My Uncle John FRY married Janie Mae BUNCH of Johnsville in 1906 in Cedar Hill in Erath county. Janie's parents were John Blackwell BUNCH & Mary Elizabeth SHAW. My Dad (Charles Newton FRY born 1879) who lived in the community of Webb in Tarrant County went to Dallas in a wagon to pick up his brother's body. He brought his brother's wooden coffin back and placed it on the back porch for a couple of weeks (according to my half sister Susie who is 93) while he dug the grave. The ground was frozen in February so it took a while to chisel out a grave. Aunt Janie's father (John BUNCH) came to Dallas and took her back to Johnsville after Uncle John died. I have been told that Aunt Janie died in Johnsville 28 days after Uncle John died. She is buried in Pony Creek Cemetery behind Box Church. She has no marker. Aunt Mollie was pregnant - after she had the baby she contracted the measles and was very ill. While he had the measles the baby died. In the fall of 1910 Aunt Mollie told Uncle David that she had had enough illness and death and she wanted to leave Dallas and go back to the country. They moved back to Erath County. In the fall of 1913 they moved to Thurber. Uncle David had a job working in Thurber as a blacksmith for T&P Coal. They lived there for five years. In 1917 they moved to Fort Worth because Uncle David had a job working on Camp Bowie. If anyone has any information, no matter how minor, on any of these families I would love to hear from you. Lola