Fry - Thomas W.
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana 27 February 1875 p 2
From the Lafayette Journal of Tuesday – this morning we make the not unexpected notice of the death of Dr. TW Fry, which occurred yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock. For several weeks he has been lingering on the very verge of the grave, gradually and slowly, but surely sinking from day to day, clinging with wonderful tenacity to life, and yet without the shadow of reasonable hope for a favorale (sic) termination of his sickness, He was taken first with erysipelas, with attendant febrile symptoms of unusual severity. When the disease abated abscesses soon formed, and thus drained away his little remaining vitality and were the immediate cause of his death. Dr. Fry was born August 4, 1814 in Mercer (now Boyle) County, Kentucky, five miles from Danville. He graduated at Center College, Danville, in 1834, studied medicine and finished his course at Transylvania Medical College in 1836. He emigrated to the neighboring city of Crawfordsville in the Fall of 1837, and was married in November of the same year. He practiced medicine there until the war broke out, filling in his leisure moments in writing for the Journal newspaper of that place, in which he was interested if we mistake not, as part proprietor. When the first call was made for troops in the late rebellion the Doctor went into the service as Surgeon of the 11th Indiana Volunteers with whom he remained until the Winter of 1862 when he was promoted to the rank of Surge of Volunteers. He served as Division Surgeon on the staff of General Wallace until after the battle of Shiloh when he was taken sick and lay so for three or four months. When convalescent he was ordered to report for duty as Post surgeon at New Albany and served as such and as Superintendent of Hospitals at Louisville, New Albany and Jeffersonville until after the close of the war. In 1867 he was appointed Assessor Internal Revenue for this District and during the succeeding year removed to this city where he has since resided. As a physician and surgeon Dr. Fry stood among those at the head of the profession, while as a writer, particularly upon scientific subjects he had few equals. As a man he was genial and courteous, and as a husband and father affectionate and kind. His death will be regretted by a large circle friends and acquaintances. He leaves a widow, two married sons, one widowed daughter, and another whose marriage we announced yesterday morning. - transcribed by kbz
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana 6 March 1875 p 1
The Attica Ledger speaking of the death of Dr. Fry, of Lafayette, says he was born in Ketncuky and was a slave holder but manumitted his "chattles" as we used to call them. Thomas Jackson of that place was once the doctor's property.
Lew Fry has shown us a visiting card which his late father captured from the person of General George Beckley, of the Southern Confederacy, during the late unpleasantness. The card is a representation of the Confederate flag, with the letters KGC ranged up and down the center, while underneath it are the words "Mexico and a United South," the General's name being on the upper edge. It is an interesting relic and is highly prized. - kbz
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Source: Saturday Mercury, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana 16 Oct 1875
The remains of Dr. TW Fry were brought down from Lafayette last week and interred in Oak Hill cemetery. Many of our old readers will remember the Doctor in days gone by as the able editor of the Crawfordsville Journal. - kbz
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Source: Saturday Evening Journal 16 Oct 1875
The remains of Dr. TW Fry, which were removed from Lafayette to Oak Hill cemetery last Thursday, we're so well preserved as to be readily recognized two and a half years after death.
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Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Tuesday 30 May 1892
The following is the list of the names of the soldiers buried in our cemeteries:
Oak Hill Cemetery—Joseph Alexander, Allen T. Blaine, J. Harrison Brown, John W. Blair, John Bailey, Robert A. Bratton, Solon H. Brown, Henry B. Burkmeyer, Sterling H. Crowder, Frank Collins, Thos N. Campbell, John Caven, Emly Deets, Milton Dennis, James Dunn, Nathaniel Dunn, John S. Ewing, John B. Engle, Thomas W. Fry, Thos W. Jr. Fry, Isom R. Farmer, Andrew B. Gray, Charles Hack, Peter Huff, Fountain F. Hancock, David S. Hancock, Henry S. Lane, Wm H. Lynn, James S. McClellan, Benj M. McMaken, Marshall Mills, Milton Mitchell, Wm H. Morgan, Hiram McMurray, Calloway Nosler, W. H. Oliver, Jonathan Powers, John B. Powers, Henry Ristine, Rhos Ragsdale, Albert Ristine, John W. Ramsey, Joseph B. Simpson, Wm W. Simpson, T. L. Streight, Wm D. Taylor, James Wilson, McKee Wilson, J. Ward Wilson, Lane Willson, C. B. White, Charles White, John H. Wallace, Ambrose Whitlock, John Weston, John M. Yount
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Source: Crawfordsville Star 25 Feb 1875 p2
We learn with sorrow this morning that our highly esteemed former fellow townsman, Dr. TW Fry departed this life at his residence in Lafayette yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock. His remains will be interred tomorrow at 1 o’clock. The friends in this city wishing to attend the funeral will be compelled to take the 6:32 train this evening as there is no morning train north.