| 8. | Jeremiah Fryar, Sr was born about 1775 (son of John Fryar and Sarah (..) Fryar); died about 1845 in Hamilton Co, Tennessee. Notes:
Subj: Fwd: Jeremiah and Rebecca Fryar of Hamilton County, TN
Date: 98-03-27 22:03:22 EST
From: JGustaf114
To: Lumoto
Hello,
Thought you might like to see this.
Sharon
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Subj: Jeremiah and Rebecca Fryar of Hamilton County, TN
Date: 98-03-20 07:12:23 EST
From: JMFryar
To: JGustaf114
CC: FRYAR-L@rootsweb.com
Sharon,
Here is the newspaper article on Jeremiah and Rebecca Fryar:
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:
Source: Chattanooga News-Free Press, 21 Feb 1993
Fryar Family Lived In Area When Indians Lived Here
Jeremiah Fryar lived in three different locations along the banks of the Tennessee River in the days when Indians still occupied portions of Hamilton County and before the Civil War soldiers arrived.
Born around 1809 to Jeremiah Fryar Sr. and Rebecca Lovelady Fryar, he came to Hamilton County around 1826. He lived first with his parents on the north side of the river in the vicinity of Mountain Creek, then he moved to the mouth of Chatga Creek near the present Scholze Tannery.
The elder Jeremiah Fryar fought in campaigns under John Sevier and was also in the War of 1812 under the Company of Capt. William Christian of Roane County.
Jeremiah Fryar Jr. purchased property in Lookout Valley in 1851 and moved to a house that had been occupied by Silas Williams at the foot of Lookout Moutain near Lookout Creek.
Descendants believe this house may date back to the ones built around 1802 by Casper Vaught. He constructed Brown's Tavern, which is still standing on Brown's Ferry Road. The Fryar family for many years owned Brown's Tavern.
Jeremiah Fryar Jr. had several brothers, including William, who was killed in the Mexican War in 1848. His older brother, John Fryar, married Margaret Hixson and then later Elizabeth Guthrie.
Jeremiah Fryar furnished wagons and was a wagonmaster in Indian campaigns after mustering in at Ross's Landing in 1837. He was discharged at New Orleans.
Jeremiah Fryar had many children himself, including a daughter, Nancy, by his first wife. Nancy married George Monds and later Jesse Walden.
The second wife of Jeremiah Fryar was Ingobo Hixson.
Some of the Fryar children married into the Parker family from a nearby farm, including Mary Elizabeth who married Wiley Parker and James who married Manerva Parker. Another son, Will Fryar, lived near the homeplace at the property where the freeway now cuts through in Lookout Valley. The site is now called Cummings Bottom. Will Fryar was killed in a buggy accident near his home in 1897.
Rebecca Fryar, a daughter of Jeremiah Fryar Jr., married John Cummings, who became a large landowner in the valley. One of their sons was Judge Will Cummings.
Jeremiah Fryar died in late 1860, and thus missed the Civil War fighting that swirled around his homeplace in late 1863. His close friend, Samuel Williams, spent a day with him just before his death.
Jeremiah's widow, Ingobo, who was born in 1798, survived until 1901. She, therefore, achieved the rarity of living in three centuries.
Jeremiah and Ingobo are buried on a hillside on their homeplace along with many other Fryars and their kin and neighbors.
The Fryar house can be seen in a painting of the Civil War battle at Lookout Valley. The large painting is on display at Point Park. No photographs of the Fryar house are known to exist, though it survived until a fire in the 1940s. It wcated at the present site of a trailer park on Cummings Highway. Much of the Fryar property is now owned by Reflection Riding.
Margie Fryar Shields, a descendant of Jeremiah and Will Fryar, was compiling a history of the Fryar family when she suffered an untimely death in 1991. Her sister, Louise Fryar Kent, has now completed the work. It includes a listing of thho are buried at the Fryar Cemetery. Most of the 166 people buried there have been identified.
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The first reference found of Jeremiah Fryar was in 1798 when he was listed on an Indian War roster as being a deserter. The next documentation is a court case in Roane, County, TN. It is not known what the court case was for but, his surety was Peter Avery and Peter Avery, Jr., the father and brother of Tabitha Avery, wife of John Fryar, Jr. He is also on a Bledsoe County roster when they were petitioning for a County.
In 1826 a title bond was given from Richard Waterhouse to Jeremiah for 250 acres on the TN River in the vicinity of Baylor School. He lived on that side of the river until 1840. He moved to the South side of the river after the Ocoee land sale as did his children.
One statement found in Penelope Allen's papers is that he was buried in Hill City. It was not confirmed but it is thought this burial place is the Beason Cemetery as it is close to the Baylor property in Chattanooga.
Of the seven sons, born to Jeremiah and Rebecca, four Joseph, Sevier, Pleasant, Calvin and four daughters settled in Greene County, AR along with some of the Loveladys, Roberts, and Harrises. Only two sons stayed in Hamilton County and one son, William, was killed in the Mexican War.
The four sons that settled in Arkansas were involved in a famous fight in Chattanooga before the Civil War. By one account, the Fryars became angry after they sent a Hibbs boy into town with a load of corn and he was cheated out of it. Another version said the Fryars were upset because their friend, Lilburn Condry, had been beaten up by a group of gamblers. The Fryars armed themselves with shotguns and squirrel rifles and rode into town. The Fryars killed a man named Walker, who was City marshal, near Fourth and Market Streets with their first shot and Joseph Fryar had an eye shot out. The Fryars charged into Townsend's store while "raising that peculiar soul-fortifying but awe-inspiring battle cry which subsequently became famous as the 'rebel yell.'
The gamblers obtained horses from Carter's stable at Broad Street and vamoosed. Afterwards the four Fryar brothers moved to Greene County, Arkansas.
Jeremiah married Rebecca Lovelady after 1802. Rebecca (daughter of John Lovelady and Clarissa Hughes) was born about 1786 in Greene Co, Tennessee; died after 1830 in Greene Co, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1848 - Aft 1870 (23 years)