Biographical Sketch of Robert A. Fryar, Walnut Grove Township, Greene County, Missouri

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Mr. Fryar is the son of John and Sarah (Jack) Fryar, and was born in
Monroe County, Tennessee, August 25, 1820.  His father was a native of
Ireland and died in 1831, at the age of eighty-eight.  His mother died
in 1838.  Robert was educated in the common schools of his native 
county, and began farming when he was quite young.  At the age of
twenty-three he learned the carpenter's trade, which, in connection
with farming, he has followed all his life.  He came to Greene County
in the fall of 1851, and purchased land two miles west of Walnut Grove.
He sold out in 1853, and purchased land in Vernon County, where he 
lived two years, and then went to Cedar County and bought land. He soon
after removed to Benton County, Arkansas, where he remained two years,
and then moved back to Greene County, Mo., and built the seventh house
in Walnut Grove, and has lived there ever since.  He enlisted in the 
militia during the war and was stationed most of the time at Ash Grove.
He was married in 1850 to Miss Martha E. Williams.  Their union has 
been blessed with five children, four of whom are now living.  Mr. and
Mrs. Fryar are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and have
a host of friends in this county.

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