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m. 6 Feb 1879
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m. 31 Aug 1918
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[frydds.FTW] Fred Fry came to New Mexico in 1908 with his parents and two sisters from McMinvel Arkansas. He met Mabel Weddington, who was teaching school at Blanco, near Doreno. she had come to New Mexico with her parents from Henrietta, Texas where her father was a bookkeeper for Jim Curtis, owner of the Diamond Tail Ranch. Mr. Curtis' daughter, Sadie and her husband were at the ranch but unable to keep books. Fred and Mabel were married in Portales, New Mexico, August 31, 1918 and lived on the ranch at Doreno. Besides the 160 acres of land his father had Fred bought out or broke and cleared 800 acres of farm land. He had a Model T Ford touring car and eight horses when he married. He drove a school bus intoTaiban from 1934 to 1944 when he went to work at the Ft Sumner air base fire department for five years. He also was auctioneer for all the pie suppers etc. that were held around the county. In 1964 he moved to Delany, Arkansas near Fayetville. The moved back to Ft. Sumner in 1973. Fred and Mabel moved to Hereford, Texas about 1980 near their son Stanley Alan Fry. Fred always seemed to be a giant of a man to me although I think he was about six foot one or two. He was a true cowboy. In his younger years he told me about several cattle drives he was involved with. He told me once about coming home from a cattle drive into Mexico. He was alone and had run out of food. He said that he rode for about three days without food before he came upon an old dugout with a poor mexican family. He said that they didn't speak any english and he spoke very little spanish, but they gave him some beans and tortilla's. That was the best meal he ever had. I wish he would have written some of his stories down for me. I think it would have been interesting. References
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