Barbara Ann Fry

Brief Life History of Barbara Ann

When Barbara Ann Fry was born on 13 March 1854, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jacob Fry, was 45 and her mother, Mrs Barbara Fry, was 39. She had at least 10 sons and 2 daughters with Franklin Gower. She lived in Penn Forest Township, Carbon, Pennsylvania, United States for about 40 years. She died on 11 April 1913, in Albrightsville, Penn Forest Township, Carbon, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Penn Forest Township, Carbon, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Franklin Gower
1847–1916
Barbara Ann Fry
1854–1913
Adam Gower
1879–1954
Arthur Gower
–1878
Mary Jane Gower
–1878
John Gower
Rubin Gower
Joseph Gower
1881–1957
Harry E Gower
1882–
Henry Franklin Gower
1883–1926
Amandus Monroe Gower
1886–1952
Jacob Milton Gower
1888–1963
Paul Wilson Gower
1891–1968
Anna Mae Gower
1895–

Sources (10)

  • Beve Gower in household of Frank Gower, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Barbara Fry - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Barbara Fry
  • Barbaran, "Pennsylvania Deaths and Burials, 1720-1999"

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World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1863 · Battle of Gettysburg

The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English (mainly southern and southwestern): from Middle English frie ‘free’ (Old English frīo, frīg), with reference either to rank or tenurial status (‘free-born’) or to character (‘generous, open-handed’). It is synonymous with Free .

Americanized form of German Frei or Frey , or of the Dutch cognate Vrij.

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

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