10/31/2019
Samuel & Mary A. Wintz Fry Family
Back Row Left to Right: George, Jonas, Aaron, Anna, Eli, Sarah, Thomas
Front Row Left to Right: Christopher, Samuel (Father), Mary Ann Wintz (Mother), Henry
These are the nine of the children that Samuel brought to the Sedgwick, Kansas area about 1870, not pictured is their son Joseph Felix who died 24 Jan 1887. Samuel along with several of his brothers and sisters’ families migrated to the area between 1870 and 1880. Samuel Fry was born March 7, 1828 in Warren County, Ohio and died March 19, 1912 at his home in Wichita, Kansas. He was the son of Christian Fry and Elizabeth Blinn. Mary Ann Wintz Fry was born August 25, 1829 in Preble, Ohio and died May 25, 1891 in Sedgwick, Kansas. She was the daughter of Henry Wintz and Sarah Frye.
From ‘Old Obituaries Of Generations Gone By’, Joseph Dale Fry, 1993, p 44:
“PIONEERS
When tried and true workers exchange worlds, it is fitting that we pause a moment to give tribute to their lives. When Samuel Fry died, March 19, at his home in Wichita, Kansas, in his eighty-fifth year, those who knew him and know history, thought of pioneer Church work in Kansas. It was in 1870 that he gave the land that helped to build our first church in the territory then known as Southwest Kansas Conference, and in which this conference was organized thirty-one years ago by Bishop E.B. Kephart. In early days he distributed aid to the drought ad grasshopper sufferers. He organized Sunday schools, and for a long time was a member of the trustee board at Lane University, of which school he was a liberal supporter, giving $1,000 at one time to free it from debt. He gave the lot on which our first church in Wichita was erected, measuring a hundred feet by one hundred and forty, and was the largest contributor to the building. Brother Fry was born in Warren county, Ohio, becoming a Christian and United Brethren in youth. Marrying a Miss Wentz, he is survived by eight of ten children, and by a wife by second marriage. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. E. Wilson, near the old homestead near Sedgwick, and burial occurred at Pleasant Valley cemetery, near the old church where the conference was organized.”
George Fry m. Amanda Hawkins, Christopher Fry m. Emma Lindley, Sarah Elizabeth Fry m. James Clark Crawford, Albert Fry m. Louisa Henninger, Thomas Michael Fry m. Lendora ‘Lennie’ Price, Aaron Daniel Fry m. Victoria Rosenberger, Eli Fry m. Osie Inez Bates, George Philip Fry m. Lillie Downing, Joseph Felix Fry d. young, Anna Catherine Fry m. Clay Rosenberger, Jonas Fry m. Flora M. Hyde.
