When Melvina Fryor was born on 28 September 1848, in Dayton, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Leonard Fryor, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth Armstrong, was 25. She married Michael Theodore Prugh on 2 March 1865, in Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Burrell Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died on 23 May 1919, in Atwood, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Elderton Cemetery, Elderton, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States.
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