Cornelius E. Frey was born on July 3, 1847, in Robertson County, Tennessee, to Thomas Jefferson Frey and Jane Farthing. His father was a farmer who owned $3,000 of real estate and $1,150 of personal property by 1860. The family moved to Montgomery County, Tennessee, sometime in the 1850s. Frey was still living with his parents in 1870. They owned $12,000 of real estate and $2,000 of personal property, and Frey was working on the family farm. He married Ellen Watson sometime in the 1870s, and they had at least six children: Ethel, born around 1875; Jesse, born around 1877; Willard, born around 1881; Graves, born around 1885; Mamie, born around 1888; and Clara, born around 1891. Frey worked as a farmer in Montgomery County. He remained there for the rest of his life, and he died there of “Stokes Adams disease” on December 9, 1923.

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