Clayton co IAGenWeb - Cemeteries

Name	Birth	Death	Inscription
Feay, Alexander JR		06/19/1850	aged 2 yrs., 2 mo., 2 d
Feay, Alexander		05/26/1867	aged 62 yrs., 8 mo., 19 d; h/o 1st Mary Ashborough (d. 1828), 2nd Christena
Feay, Christena Wilson		12/04/1862	aged 46y 3m; w/o 1st Abraham Wilson, 2nd Alexander Feay
Fry, Elizabeth		01/12/1871	aged 90 yrs.; w/o George
Fry, George		11/26/1863	aged 85 years; h/o Elizabeth
Feay, G.W.		06/14/1863	aged 23 yrs., 4 mo., 4 d
Fry, Henry	08/08/1821	08/13/1878	h/o Sarah J.; s/o George & Elizabeth
Fry, Sarah Jane nee Shriner		08/09/1877	w/o Henry Fry, aged 39 yr & 1d
Pixler, James E.		10/08/1868	Son of G. O. & S. Pixler, Aged 1 yr 4 Mo 27 days
Pixler, twin - male		07/23/1890	(no known stone) aged 3 days, died of premature birth in Grand Meadow & buried in family cemetery (Clayton County Iowa Register of Deaths 1880-1897, v.1, p.76)
Pixler, twin - female		07/26/1890	(no known stone) aged 5 days, died of premature birth in Grand Meadow & buried in family cemetery (Clayton County Iowa Register of Deaths 1880-1897, v.1, p.76)

Notes from Ann O'Leary:
I am fairly familiar with the Fry family of the Fry Cemetery (my husband's ancestors), I had visited the cemetery a few times, a number of years ago. I have some conflicting & additional info to add to Bill Waters' (immediately below). The last time I was there, 18 yrs. ago, several stones had been recently unearthed from the spongy ground by Oliver Fay, a descendant of the Feays. Since then, they apparently have sunk back into the ground or weathered to the point where they are difficult to read. I am enclosing my list. You will note some differences in a few names & dates.

All eleven of the known burials in this cemetery were related by blood or marriage. The patriarch and matriarch were George and Elizabeth Fry, who arrived in Clayton County on April 23, 1850. They ran what may have been the first hotel in Grand Meadow Township, the Fry Hotel, also in the same NE1/4 of Sec. 26, as the cemetery.

Their three children who accompanied them were:
Christiana “Christena”, widow of Abraham Wilson, then married Alexander Feay, Sr.
Henry, who married Sarah Jane Shriner
Eliza J., who married James M. Pixler. They are buried in the Postville Cemetery. Eliza Fry Pixler had a son, George, who farmed the land adjoining the cemetery. It is believed that the twins were from his marriage to Maie Eva Harmon.

Alexander, Jr. and George W. were sons of Alexander Feay, Sr., by his first marriage. His daughter by that same marriage, Susannah, married Gasper Orth Pixler and their infant son, James E., was buried here.

I believe the WPA records (far below) refer mainly to a single Fry family monument. S.J. Fry is listed on the monument without dates but is the same as the Sarah Jane Fry listed on a separate stone.

This cemetery was registered as the George Fry Cemetery, on January 1, 1865, by Henry Fry, approximately 1 acre in the SW corner of the NE 1/4 of Sec. 26, T95, R6, Grand Meadow Township, Clayton County, Iowa.

-contributed by Ann O'Leary, October 2005 from her cemetery notes dated October 30, 1987; updated September 5, 2024

2004 records
~Bill Waters (deceased) walked Fry cemetery in June 2004 and recorded the following tombstone inscriptions:

Name	Birth	Death	Inscription
Fry, Alexander		05/26/1867	aged 8 yr.
Fry, Elizabeth		01/12/1871	aged 90 years
Fry, George		11/26/1868	aged 85 years
Fry, Henry	08/08/1821	08/13/1878
Fry, Sarah Jane		08/09/1877	Wife of Henry Fry, Aged 39 yr & 1d
Pixler, James E.		10/08/1868	Son of G. O. & S. Pixler, Aged 1 yr 4 Mo 27 days

Fry, Elizabeth			(no dates)
Fry, George			(no dates)
Fry, Henry	1821	08/13/1878
Fry, S. J.			(no dates)
Fry, Sarah Jane	1844	08/09/1877