Something happened - LIFE. Actually I got so into family history this summer that I barely got anything else done. I mean I was so into the work that I didn't even gain weight this summer - I know! Sounds like a miracle huh?
Well the funnest thing was that I found a relative in Livingston, Montana. I found rumors from all the papers I got from my Mother's estate that her great grandfather had a brother that may have settled in Montana and he had two sons and a daughter named Ruth. That's all I knew, that's all I had to go on, oh and the town in Montana was not far from Yellowstone!
So I got out a map of Montana and started figuring places and then searched old newspapers for any word of a Fryer in Montana - Bonanza!
There was a mayor of Livingston by the name of Fryer and the article mentioned that he had a store in Livingston.
I looked up Livingston and found there is still a store there by the name of "Sax & Fryer".
I wrote the store and ask if anyone possible knew anything of the history of the Fryer part of the store name and if possible they could be related to Ann Colton and William Fryer who immigrated to the United States and Ann Colton Fryer and children joined wagon trains to Utah in 1849.
I got an amazing letter back from owner of "Sax & Fryer", a Mr. John Fryer, who said his relative was William C. Fryer the son of William and Ann Colton Fryer!
The missing brother of my Mom's great grandfather.
Mr. John Fryer sent me a wonderful history of his great grandfather and I felt the victory of discovery.
He also said there were relatives of the only sister of the children of William and Ann Colton Fryer that had also contacted him and suggested I get in contact with them!
So now my next big quest is to find out what happened to one of the brothers of my great grandmother, a Mr. Edward Carlile.
He also was in Montana at about the same time period as the Fryer.
I have a picture of him from Butte, Montana and from Cheyenne, Montana. He married a gal from Canada and then disappeared.
So school started and I had to go back to work and slow down on the research.
Actually I stopped on the research and just spend extra minutes here and there scanning family albums so I can give each family member a copy of all the pictures.
It is rather easy but tedious and time consuming.
But I also get to relive time through the pictures.
Sorry it is taking so long family! I am only one person!
