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Submitted: 10/14/21 • Approved: 10/14/21 • Last Updated: 10/17/21 • R463054-G0-S3
Born Madison Co., Va.
October 6, 1851
Died August 14, 1941
Father
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Henry Frye, early-day Wheeler county resident and father of Tobe Frye, who resides on a portion of the old Frye Ranch, northeast of Wheeler, passed away on Thursday of last week at Sulphur, Okla., following a brief serious illness. He was injured in a car accident some years ago and had since been an invalid.
Funeral services were held and interment made in the Sulphur cemetery on Saturday. His grandsons were pall bearers and his granddaughters flower girls.
Those attending the funeral from this county were Mr. and Mrs. S.P. Britt, Shamrock, and sons, Tom and Buck Britt, Wheeler, and Bert Davis, Briscoe.
Frye was born Oct. 6, 1851, at Rochelle, Va. and died August 14, 1941 at Sulphur, Okla., lacking only 52 days of reaching his 90th birthday.
He came to Texas at the age of 19, first locating near Fort Worth, and became a cowboy, helping to drive cattle "up the trail" to the north. In Colorado he met Miss Lula Miller, native Texas and daughter of an early-day Wheeler county family, the W.J. Millers. The young couple was married March 15, 1877, at Dodge City, Kans., returning that summer to Texas and settling on the Washita, where they lived five years before coming to the old home place which they still own on Sweetwater Creek, northeast of here.
Six children, three sons and three daughters, blessed their union. Of these, one daughter died in infancy. Another daughter, Elizabeth, married the late Frank Young and died a few years later.
Surviving, with the aged widow, are the following children: Cornelia Puryear, Holyoke, Colo.; Will of Van; Tobe of this county; and Harry of Sulphur, Okla.; also 17 grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren.
Jack Frye, eldest son of Will who spent much of his youth on his grandparents' ranch, is president of the Transcontinental Western Airways a widely known flier and aviation authority.
In pioneer days Henry Frye contributed much to Wheeler county's history. To him and others of his kind, the Panhandle owes a great debt. Far too few of them are left and they are fast passing away. All honor to them, heroes of their day, and an inspiration to people of any age.
Fourteen years ago Mr. and Mrs. Frye moved to Sulphur to be near their son, Harry, who owns and operates a hotel and bathhouse at that place.
Mrs. J.M. Porter, of Wheeler, long-time friend of the family, pays the following tribute to the memory of Henry Frye:
Our friend
We oft had doubts of other men
But knew just where he stood:
Some thought always of selfish gain,
He sought his neighbor's good.
When in his presence, other rose
To higher, purer desires;
The reach of service wider grows
When lighter at such fires.
His summons came: though he no more
Shall walk the ways of men;
The influence of his noble life
Bears fruit beyond his ken.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume VIII-Number 36, Thursday, August 21, 1941, Page 1)
Contributed on 10/14/21
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