Aged 73y 11m 10d; died in Carrollton, IL
Burial of Captain Fry - Was Provost Marshal in Illinois During Civil War
The remains of Captain William N. Fry, who died at his home near Carrollton, Greene county, Tuesday, arrived in this city yesterday at 11:30 o'clock in the morning on the Chicago & Alton, and were taken from the station to Oak Ridge cemetery, where they were interred in the Fry burying ground, where lie all the members of the family of which Captain Fry was at the time of death the survivor, excepting General James Fry of New York city, who was during the early part of the civil war on the staff of General Buell and who was later provost marshal general. General James Fry is buried in one of the cemeteries of New York city.
No services were held at Oak Ridge cemetery, as the funeral had been held at the country home near Carrollton, the Rev. Vicar of Trinity Episcopal church, Carrollton, officiating.
Among those who accompanied the remains from Carrollton were Messrs. Horton and Warren English, brothers of Turney English of this city, of whom the deceased was a cousin; George W. Ware, Armstrong and Undertaken Krueger.
Captain William Fry was born near Carrollton and was at the time of his death 75 years old. His father, early settlers of Illinois and was sheriff of Greene county, commissioner of the Illinois and Michigan canal in 1837 and 1838 and an officer of Illinois troops in the Black Hawk war, serving with Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Colonel Jacob Fry, though over seventy years old, raised the Sixty-first Illinois infantry volunteers regiment and remained its colonel until blindness compelled him to resign his commission and retire to his extensive farm near Carrollton, where he died fifteen years later, and was buried at Oak Ridge cemetery in this city.
William N. Fry, his son, was engaged in farming near Carrollton until he was appointed during the civil war one of the provost marshals for Illinois. He had also served as sheriff of Greene county before the war. After the war he engaged in farming and the flour mill business.
He married Miss Julia Ward, daughter of James Ward, a farmer of Carrollton, who died several years ago, and whose remains lie in Oak Ridge cemetery. They had no children. He died on his farm near Carrollton.
Pub. in Illinois State Register, Springfield, IL, 7-29-1905
Burial of Captain Fry - Was Provost Marshal in Illinois During Civil War
The remains of Captain William N. Fry, who died at his home near Carrollton, Greene county, Tuesday, arrived in this city yesterday at 11:30 o'clock in the morning on the Chicago & Alton, and were taken from the station to Oak Ridge cemetery, where they were interred in the Fry burying ground, where lie all the members of the family of which Captain Fry was at the time of death the survivor, excepting General James Fry of New York city, who was during the early part of the civil war on the staff of General Buell and who was later provost marshal general. General James Fry is buried in one of the cemeteries of New York city.
No services were held at Oak Ridge cemetery, as the funeral had been held at the country home near Carrollton, the Rev. Vicar of Trinity Episcopal church, Carrollton, officiating.
Among those who accompanied the remains from Carrollton were Messrs. Horton and Warren English, brothers of Turney English of this city, of whom the deceased was a cousin; George W. Ware, Armstrong and Undertaken Krueger.
Captain William Fry was born near Carrollton and was at the time of his death 75 years old. His father, early settlers of Illinois and was sheriff of Greene county, commissioner of the Illinois and Michigan canal in 1837 and 1838 and an officer of Illinois troops in the Black Hawk war, serving with Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Colonel Jacob Fry, though over seventy years old, raised the Sixty-first Illinois infantry volunteers regiment and remained its colonel until blindness compelled him to resign his commission and retire to his extensive farm near Carrollton, where he died fifteen years later, and was buried at Oak Ridge cemetery in this city.
William N. Fry, his son, was engaged in farming near Carrollton until he was appointed during the civil war one of the provost marshals for Illinois. He had also served as sheriff of Greene county before the war. After the war he engaged in farming and the flour mill business.
He married Miss Julia Ward, daughter of James Ward, a farmer of Carrollton, who died several years ago, and whose remains lie in Oak Ridge cemetery. They had no children. He died on his farm near Carrollton.
Pub. in Illinois State Register, Springfield, IL, 7-29-1905
Aged 73y 11m 10d; died in Carrollton, IL
Burial of Captain Fry - Was Provost Marshal in Illinois During Civil War
The remains of Captain William N. Fry, who died at his home near Carrollton, Greene county, Tuesday, arrived in this city yesterday at 11:30 o'clock in the morning on the Chicago & Alton, and were taken from the station to Oak Ridge cemetery, where they were interred in the Fry burying ground, where lie all the members of the family of which Captain Fry was at the time of death the survivor, excepting General James Fry of New York city, who was during the early part of the civil war on the staff of General Buell and who was later provost marshal general. General James Fry is buried in one of the cemeteries of New York city.
No services were held at Oak Ridge cemetery, as the funeral had been held at the country home near Carrollton, the Rev. Vicar of Trinity Episcopal church, Carrollton, officiating.
Among those who accompanied the remains from Carrollton were Messrs. Horton and Warren English, brothers of Turney English of this city, of whom the deceased was a cousin; George W. Ware, Armstrong and Undertaken Krueger.
Captain William Fry was born near Carrollton and was at the time of his death 75 years old. His father, early settlers of Illinois and was sheriff of Greene county, commissioner of the Illinois and Michigan canal in 1837 and 1838 and an officer of Illinois troops in the Black Hawk war, serving with Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Colonel Jacob Fry, though over seventy years old, raised the Sixty-first Illinois infantry volunteers regiment and remained its colonel until blindness compelled him to resign his commission and retire to his extensive farm near Carrollton, where he died fifteen years later, and was buried at Oak Ridge cemetery in this city.
William N. Fry, his son, was engaged in farming near Carrollton until he was appointed during the civil war one of the provost marshals for Illinois. He had also served as sheriff of Greene county before the war. After the war he engaged in farming and the flour mill business.
He married Miss Julia Ward, daughter of James Ward, a farmer of Carrollton, who died several years ago, and whose remains lie in Oak Ridge cemetery. They had no children. He died on his farm near Carrollton.
Pub. in Illinois State Register, Springfield, IL, 7-29-1905
Burial of Captain Fry - Was Provost Marshal in Illinois During Civil War
The remains of Captain William N. Fry, who died at his home near Carrollton, Greene county, Tuesday, arrived in this city yesterday at 11:30 o'clock in the morning on the Chicago & Alton, and were taken from the station to Oak Ridge cemetery, where they were interred in the Fry burying ground, where lie all the members of the family of which Captain Fry was at the time of death the survivor, excepting General James Fry of New York city, who was during the early part of the civil war on the staff of General Buell and who was later provost marshal general. General James Fry is buried in one of the cemeteries of New York city.
No services were held at Oak Ridge cemetery, as the funeral had been held at the country home near Carrollton, the Rev. Vicar of Trinity Episcopal church, Carrollton, officiating.
Among those who accompanied the remains from Carrollton were Messrs. Horton and Warren English, brothers of Turney English of this city, of whom the deceased was a cousin; George W. Ware, Armstrong and Undertaken Krueger.
Captain William Fry was born near Carrollton and was at the time of his death 75 years old. His father, early settlers of Illinois and was sheriff of Greene county, commissioner of the Illinois and Michigan canal in 1837 and 1838 and an officer of Illinois troops in the Black Hawk war, serving with Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Colonel Jacob Fry, though over seventy years old, raised the Sixty-first Illinois infantry volunteers regiment and remained its colonel until blindness compelled him to resign his commission and retire to his extensive farm near Carrollton, where he died fifteen years later, and was buried at Oak Ridge cemetery in this city.
William N. Fry, his son, was engaged in farming near Carrollton until he was appointed during the civil war one of the provost marshals for Illinois. He had also served as sheriff of Greene county before the war. After the war he engaged in farming and the flour mill business.
He married Miss Julia Ward, daughter of James Ward, a farmer of Carrollton, who died several years ago, and whose remains lie in Oak Ridge cemetery. They had no children. He died on his farm near Carrollton.
Pub. in Illinois State Register, Springfield, IL, 7-29-1905
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