Mary Elizabeth Hedrick

Mary married David Tuckwiller Hedrick on 14 Mar 1867 in Greenbrier Co., WV. She was born to Dominick Fry/Frye, a native of Baden-Württemberg, Germany; and Greenbrier County native Christine/Christina Whanger. Mary’s granddaughter, Lora Zicafoose Chase, recalled that Mary spoke German as well as English. Mary’s home as a child has not yet been located, but as her parents are buried in the Coffman Cemetery near Davis-Stuart Road in Greenbrier County, Mary’s childhood home may have been in that area. After her marriage to David Tuckwiller Hedrick, they lived on the Muddy Creek Mountain farm described in his bio. Mary was skilled in all the domestic duties of the day, providing for her husband and four children. She cooked and baked, canned, churned butter, smoked meat in the smoke house, made sauer kraut, and so on. In about 1908, David or Mary became ill to the point that their daughter, Anna Belle Hedrick Zicafoose, moved with her husband and children from nearby rural Asbury into the main house on the farm to care for the animals, maintain the farm, and perhaps care for David and Mary. At this time a second, small one room house was built of chestnut lumber, likely sawed on David's saw mill, adjacent to the main house, to serve as David and Mary’s home. Anna Belle and family returned to Asbury the following year, presumably when David and Mary were well enough to again be on their own. In the spring of 1918, David and Mary were visiting their daughter, Alda Hedrick Jones, who lived with her family on the adjacent farm to the south. Lora Zicafoose Chase wrote that "in being helped in the buggy Grandma fell. No one supposed she was hurt much but some of her children were here with her including Mother. She [Mother] left to go back to the hollow after spending some time with Grandma and before she reached home got the word that Grandma was dead." Her death certificate records that she fell from a buggy Mar 29 and died Apr 3, 1918. She, like her husband and her children, was a faithful member of the local Methodist church (see also David's bio.)* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: May 19 2021, 23:55:35 UTC