Sarah Fry
Sarah Fry was born on March 22, 1846, in Venango County, Pennsylvania, to Adam and Esther Fry. Her father was a farmer who owned $5,000 of real estate and $400 of personal property by 1860. She grew up and attended school in Venango County, Pennsylvania. According to an early biographer, “Three months of schooling each year in the old log house…marked the limits of her educational career.” She married Daniel E. Green around 1864, and their daughter Livona was born around 1868.
 
Her husband probably died in the late 1860s. By 1870, she was working as a teacher in Concord, Indiana. She married Delos A. Colburn on June 27, 1873, and they had at least three children: Ira, born around 1874; Ina, born around 1878; Lillian, born around 1880. They moved to Colfax, Missouri, in the 1870s, and her husband worked as a farmer.
 
According to one biographer, she was a “woman of forceful character and native ability,” and she was “aggressive in her opposition to the liquor traffic.” She was a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Her husband probably died in the late 1800s, and by 1900, she was living with her children in Topeka, Kansas. By 1910, she was living in her daughter Ina’s household in Dakota, Illinois. She died in Paxton, Nebraska, on April 13, 1915.
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(3713)Fry, Sarah ~ Colburn, Sarah ~ Green, Sarah1846-03-221915-04-13
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Civilian
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  • Gender: Female
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 19

  • (10483) [recipient] ~ George W. Fry to Sarah Fry, 19 August 1861
  • (10487) [recipient] ~ Thomas J. Whitmore to Sarah Fry, 28 March 1863
  • (10488) [recipient] ~ Thomas J. Whitmore to Sarah Fry, 4 May 1863
  • (10489) [recipient] ~ Thomas J. Whitmore to Sarah Fry, 17 June 1862
  • (10490) [recipient] ~ Thomas J. Whitmore to Sarah Fry, 8 April 1862
  • (10493) [recipient] ~ Waldon Kelly to Sarah Fry, 18 July 1863
  • (10505) [recipient] ~ Isaac W. Fry to Sarah Fry, 31 October 1863
  • (10507) [recipient] ~ Isaac W. Fry to Sarah Fry, 12 October 1862
  • (10508) [recipient] ~ Isaac W. Fry to Sarah Fry, 27 May 1863
  • (10509) [recipient] ~ Isaac W. Fry to Sarah Fry, 23 September 1862
  • (10511) [recipient] ~ Jacob S. Delo to Sarah Fry, 20 February 1862
  • (10512) [recipient] ~ George W. Fry to Sarah Fry, 24 January 1864
  • (10514) [recipient] ~ John H. Fry to Sarah Fry, 19 August 1863
  • (10515) [associated with] ~ Unknown to Cousin, 10 March 1862
  • (10517) [recipient] ~ John H. Fry to Sarah Fry, 18 March 1863
  • (10518) [recipient] ~ George W. Fry to Sarah Fry, 28 February 1864
  • (10519) [writer] ~ Sarah Fry to Ira D. Colburn, 25 December 1893
  • (10528) [writer] ~ Sarah Fry to Helen M. Colburn, 9 August 1894
  • (10529) [writer] ~ Sarah Fry to Ira D. Colburn, 4 May 1890

People - Records: 11

  • (3713) Fry, Sarah is the [parent of] (3721) Colburn, Ira Delos
  • (3713) Fry, Sarah is the [grandparent of] (3727) Colburn, Helen M.
  • (3714) Fry, George W. is the [sibling of] (3713) Fry, Sarah
  • (3716) Whitmore, Thomas J. is the [friend of] (3713) Fry, Sarah
  • (3717) Kelly, Waldon is the [friend of] (3713) Fry, Sarah
  • (3719) Fry, Isaac W. is the [sibling of] (3713) Fry, Sarah
  • (3720) Delo, Jacob S. is the [cousin of] (3713) Fry, Sarah
  • (3722) Fry, Adam is the [parent of] (3713) Fry, Sarah
  • (3723) Fry, Esther is the [parent of] (3713) Fry, Sarah
  • (5613) Fry, John Henry is the [cousin of] (3713) Fry, Sarah
  • (5614) Delo, Reuben F. is the [aunt/uncle of] (3713) Fry, Sarah

Places - Records: 2

  • (3516) [birth] ~ Venango County, Pennsylvania
  • (3517) [death] ~ Paxton, Keith County, Nebraska

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SOURCES

1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, and 1910 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Indiana Marriage Certificates, 1960-2012, available from Ancestry.com; Keith County (NE) News, 29 April 1915