Mannie Belle Fryar

Brief Life History of Mannie Belle

When Mannie Belle Fryar was born on 29 October 1881, in Polk Township, Montgomery, Arkansas, United States, her father, Henry William Fryar, was 47 and her mother, Sarah Jane Hickey, was 33. She married James Theoplis Fair on 24 March 1900, in Montgomery, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Oden, Montgomery, Arkansas, United States in 1935 and Supervisorial District 2, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1940. She died on 15 November 1940, in Tempe, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Tempe Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Theoplis Fair
1876–1936
Mannie Belle Fryar
1881–1940
Marriage: 24 March 1900
Ethel Mae Fair
1901–1912
Henry Floyd Fair
1903–1980
Alton Bryon Fair
1904–1966
Parlee Jane Fair
1907–2001
Queen Esther Fair
1910–1993
Burl Haskell Fair
1911–1913
Raymond Lee Fair
1913–1965
Daniel Freeman Fair
1916–1986
Elba Fair
1918–2008
Eunice Rebecca Fair
1921–1960

Sources (16)

  • Mannie B Fair, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Marribell Fryar, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
  • Manella S Fair, "United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

World Events (8)

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded

The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Friar (see Freer 1).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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