AREA HISTORY:  Frysville, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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FRYSVILLE – Page 725

This settlement obtained its name, as is self evident, from the early inhabitants.  Its 
antiquity is known from the time-worn tombstones in the historic old churchyard, within whose 
sacred portals slumber the remains of several patriots of the Revolution.  Many graves are 
unmarked, except by sunken mounds; some by illegible inscriptions in German.  The oldest tombs 
have the names carved in English.  On one of them the name Anna Frey, who died in 1748; on 
another, Mary Nichols, about the same year, are plainly marked.  The oldest one visible died in 
1747, but the name cannot be deciphered.  This hamlet has but a half-dozen houses.  The 
manufacturing of cigars is an important business here.