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Christian T. FRY, one of the farming population of Hart Creek district, was
born in Cabell county, West Virginia, in 1824, and he is a son of John and Catharine (Snodgrass) Fry, natives
of Giles county, Virginia. Mr. Fry chose for a help-mate Elizabeth Hunter, and in Boone county, West Virginia,
in 1849, they were married. Their children number eight, born as follows: Julia A., April 26, 1850; Anthony,
November, 1853; Caroline, December, 1856; Mary A., August, 1859; John H., September, 1861; Cora A., September,
1864; Hardin, June 15, 1867; Lurana, July, 1871. Mrs. Fry was born in Kanawha county in 1835, and her parents
are Robert and Elizabeth (Taylor) Hunter, who reside in Boone county. Christian T. Fry is a prosperous farmer
in Hart Creek district, owning 300 acres of good farming land, situated on Browns branch. The land has good
improvements, a fine orchard, and a part is heavily timbered with pine, poplar and oak. There is mineral,
coal and iron ore in abundance. Mr. Fry�s postoffice address is Hart, Lincoln county, West Virginia.
Extracted from West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, a reprint of Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia Lincoln County, WV, Biographies List, 1884.