Henry Fry (1738 - 1823)

Born 30 Oct 1738 in Essex, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Susan Thornton (Walker) Fry — married 16 Jun 1764 in Elim Plantation, Virginia

Descendants

Died 6 Sep 1823 at age 84 in Madison, Virginia

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Biography

From Ancestry: BIRTH 30 Oct 1738 Essex Meadows, Chesapeake City, Virginia, USA DEATH 6 Sep 1823 (aged 84) Madison, Madison County, Virginia, USA BURIAL Fry Family Cemetery Locust Dale, Madison County, Virginia, USA MEMORIAL ID 73853249

A member of the House of Burgess, the legislature in VA. After overcoming severe alcoholism, he became a Methodist minister and served for 40 years. He was clerk of Albemarle County for 8 years.

Suggested edit: Obituary as recorded in Memoir of Col. Joshua Fry, sometime professor in William and Mary College, Virginia, and Washington's senior in command of Virginia forces, 1754, etc., etc., with an autobiography of his son, Rev. Henry Fry, and a census of their descendants by Slaughter, Philip, Departed this life on Thursday, the 7th inst, at the house of his son, Wesley Fry, Esq., of Madison, the Rev. Henry Fry, in the 85th year of his age. If an unvarying practice of all the virtues and charities of the heart ever gave a human being such preeminence as that he ought to be held up as an example and model for others, this distinction is due to the subject of this notice. He came into the world encumbered with all its frailties, but with a degree of firmness and fortitude unsurpassed among men he put down in succession all his wayward passions as they rose in rebellion against him, and almost estabished for himself the character of a saint among men.

Much of his youth was spent in the giddy whirl of fashion and dissipation, but his superior good sense taught him the folly of such a course, and after a series of probation, he assumed, at the age of thirty-seven, the calling of a minister of the Methodist Church, which character distinguished alike for the most devoted piety and for the most disinterested charity and benevolence he maintained unsullied and irreproachable for forty-eight years, and was emphatically styled the " Father of his Church."

While dispensing good in his holy calling, his high character brought him into public life. He had previously been a member of the House of Burgesses from Albemarle, in the memorable era of 1765, when the first difference arose between that body and the Governor of the Colony. He was afterwards Clerk of Albemarle Co., for eight years, and resigned that office through preference for retirement. He was the delegate to the General Assembly from Virginia, from Culpeper in the year 1785, and was mover of the general Emancipation Bill.

In all the relations of husband, father, neighbor and master, his character was of the highest order. He lived in the most rigid conformity to the rules of his church, but was at the same time remarkable for his uniform cheerfulness, vivacity and equanimity of temper.

He sunk to rest with the utmost composure and resignation, fully assured that he was exchanging this for a better world. Central Gazette [Charlottesville] Contributor: Karen Stetler

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor #: A043026

“A member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. After overcoming severe alcoholism, he became a Methodist minister and served for 40 years. He was clerk of Albemarle County for 8 years.” … ^[1]

Children with Susan Sukey Walker:

• Margaret
• Reuben
• Martha
• Joshua
• Thomas Walker
• Henry
• John
• William - 1777 d. 1854
• Wesley Thornton
• Maria S.
• Francis A. b. 1784 d. 1797
• Thornton
• Susan Peachy Fry - b. 1789 d. 1790

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Name

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Birth

Birth:

Date: 30 OCT 1738

Place: Essex, Virginia^{[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]}

Death

Death:

Date: 06 SEP 1823

Place: Madison, Virginia^{[23][24][25][26][27][28]}

Burial

Burial:

Place: Madison, Madison County, Virginia, USA^[29][30]

Residence

Residence:

Date: 1810

Place: Madison, Virginia, United States^[31]

Residence:

Date: 1779

Place: No Township Listed, Culpeper County, VA^[32]

PHOTO

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Object

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Marriage

Husband: Henry Fry

Wife: @I1843@

Child: John Fry

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Marriage:

Date: 1764

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Wife: Mary Hill Micou

Child: Margaret Fry

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Child: Henry Fry

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Marriage:

Date: APR

Place: VA^[37][38]

Sources

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