Reuben FRY

                   Ref;  Muscatine County Iowa m/cer. Biographical Sketches of MuscatineCounty Iowa page 661;  as follows;  Mrs. Eve Gates, Sec. 13; P. O. LettsIowa;  Mrs. Gates is the widow of the late Seth G. Gates who diedFebruary 7, 1878; her maiden name was Fitzgerald; she was born inPennsylvania in 1822.  She married in 1840 Mr. Reuben Fry, who was bornin Somerset County, Pennsylvania in 1820; she had two children Lucretianow deceased, and Debbie who married William R. DeWitt, resides inMissouri.  Mr. Gates was first married to Cornelia Pettit September 5,1839, she died August 22, 1846.  Mr. Gates had three children by hisfirst marriage two of whom are living, Silas R. and Louis W. both of whomserved in the Union army during the rebellion.  Mrs. Gates has sixchildren by her second marriage, Harriet (Mrs. John W. Meeker), James B.,H. N., Cornelia A., Jesse A., and George W.  Mrs. Gates mother Mrs. Oaksresides with her.