This isn't a photo of the store itself, but I took this picture of this store flyer or sign while visiting the Frye family in California. I had it in my mind to write about and occasionally searched for new information, but I never found much. Charles Jefferson Frye, the store’s owner, was married to Allie Bell Trott, granddaughter of Josie Bryan. The obituary was part of Marguerite Cook Clark’s collection—she was a cousin of Allie Bell.
The only reference I’ve come across about the store was in a 1948 newspaper, leaving me uncertain about how long Mr. Frye owned and operated it. Despite my searches, much of its history remains a mystery—just one of many small, forgotten pieces of the past waiting to be rediscovered.
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© 2025“Frye's E. Side Gro Ringgold La,” The Bienville Democrat, 27 May 1948, p.6; database and images, The Digital Archives of The Bienville Parish Library (https://bienville.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=frye%27s%20store&i=f&by=1948&bdd=1940&d=01011850-12312022&m=between&ord=k1&fn=bienville_democrat_usa_louisiana_bienville_19480527_english_6&df=1&dt=10 : accessed 14 March 2025).
Frye's Store, signage, n.d.; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019.
"C. J. Frye Expires at Age of 70 [obituary]," digital image, newspaper clipping, n.d., unidentified newspaper, from the privately-held collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2025. Obituaries were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas, on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.
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