Joseph R. Fretts and Sadie N. Bryan

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Husband Joseph R. Fretts ¹

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           Born: 4 Jun 1860 - Fayette Co, PA 1
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         Father: Joseph S. Fretts (1825-1861) 1
         Mother: Mary Ann Ryan (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 2 May 1886 1

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Wife Sadie N. Bryan ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph R. Fretts

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By working on the farm, and teaching school he succeeded in securing the means to attend the higher schools. He completed a course in the National School of Elocution and Oratory at Philadelphia, in 1879; in 1884, he was licensed an exhorter in M. E. church, and a local preacher in April, 1885. In 1886 he graduated from the Ohio Nor. University with the degree of A. B., and the same year he joined the Wisconsin Conference of the M. E. church. In 1888 he was transferred to the Pittsburgh Conference for the purpose of ordination, and at the session of that conference in October of that year, he was ordained to Deacon's orders, after which he was transferred back to the Wisconsin Conference. In the fall of the same year he entered Drew Theological Seminary, at Madison, New Jersey, as a divinity student, where he pursued his studies.

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General Notes: Wife - Sadie N. Bryan

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from Ada, Hardin Co, OH

1 Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Brief History of John and Christian Fretz (Elkhart, IN: Mennonite Publishing Co., 1890), Pg 450.