From roots-in@bl-12.rootsweb.com Sun Nov 23 08:34:03 1997 Received: from bl-4.rootsweb.com (rootsweb.com [204.212.38.29]) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA11817; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 08:34:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from bl-12.rootsweb.com (bl-12.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.28]) by bl-4.rootsweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA12647 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 08:33:35 -0800 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by bl-12.rootsweb.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) id IAA10250 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 08:31:45 -0800 Received: from bl-30.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [207.113.245.30]) by bl-4.rootsweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA06118 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 07:21:14 -0800 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA17186 for roots-in@rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 07:19:10 -0800 (PST) X-Envelope-From: Genealogy6@aol.com Sun Nov 23 07:19:09 1997 Received: from bl-4.rootsweb.com (rootsweb.com [204.212.38.29]) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA17180 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 07:19:09 -0800 (PST) From: Genealogy6@aol.com Received: from mrin38.mail.aol.com (mrin38.mx.aol.com [198.81.19.148]) by bl-4.rootsweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA06115 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 07:21:12 -0800 Received: (from root@localhost) by mrin38.mail.aol.com (8.8.5/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) id KAA09046 for roots-L@rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Nov 1997 10:20:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 10:20:42 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <971123102042_130992407@mrin38> To: roots-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Frey-- Garrett County, MD. Sender: roots-in@rootsweb.com Does anyone know who Abraham Frey's parents were?? Please respond back to me directly: Genealogy6@aol.com In the History of Cumberland Maryland by William Lowdermilk the following excerpt was found: July 22, (1843) Abraham Frey, living near Selbysport was murdered by William S. Chrise, a short distance from the murdered man's house. Chrise was a large rugged man, and for some time had been on undue terms of intimacy with Mrs. Frey, which led her husband to express his desire that Chrise should not come to his house. Chrise resented this, and threatened to kill Mr. Frey, and take his wife for himself; and did on one occasion endeavor to take her off. On the 22 of July, Chrise met Frey near his house, in the woods, and struck him with a hoe , the blow falling on the back of his head and crushing the skull. The murderer then concealed the body of his victim behind a fallen tree, where it was found some days later. Chrise was then arrested and brought to Cumberland, where he was confined in jail until the 16th of October, when his trial came up. On the 17th a jury was obtained. Hanson B. Pigman and Wm. V. Buskirk were counsel for the prosecution. George A. Pearre, then a young lawyer at the bar, was counsel for the prisoner, and at his request the Court appointed William Price as additional counsel. The trial was concluded on the fourth day , and in twenty minutes the jury returned a verdict of "Guilty of murder in the first degree." On the 20th the Court passed sentence upon the prisoner. The execution of Chrise took place in November. He was utterly unmoved throughout the trying ordeal, and was apparently the least interested of all the great crowd assembled on the occasion. He walked from the jail to the scaffold, which had been erected on the commons, at a point now lying very near Fayette street where it is crossed by the railroad. On route to the scaffold he was guarded by the "Cumberland Guards", commanded by Captain Alexander King, with a drum and fife in advance. The services at the place of execution were quite lengthy and impressive, several hymns being sung, in all of which the prisoner joined. During the intervals Chrise sat calmly chewing tobacco, occasionally rising from his seat to spit beyond the fatal trap, as though fearing to soil it. Just before the last moment he sang in a clear, loud and unbroken voice, a hymn of which the following couplet is a part: "This is the way I long have sought. And mourned because I found it not."