This story was told to Uncle Rice Fraley by his grampa George W Farley, when Rice was about ten years old. George Washington Fraleywas a son of Daniel Fraley, who was a son of Frederick Fraley.
Uncle Rice said he used to go fishing with his grampa G W Fraley when they lived in Ohio. They would sit on the river bank and fish and G W would tell him stories, about his father Daniel and his Grampa Frederick Fraley.
G W told him that Frederick, along with one of the older sons, walked a long distance from their home carrying a canoe. Frederick was about nine years old. The mother and seven brothers stayed behind at their home in in Pennsylvania. Fred and my uncle put the canoe in the head of the Ohio River, (Now the Pittsburgh). They went down the river to Virginia, in the company of a Indian scout.
Going by canoe, and over land carrying the canoe, Fred found where he wanted to bring his family in Virginia.
Fred and my uncle built a cabin and then returned the same way to Pennsylvania, to move his wife and children to Virginia.
Grampa GW Fraley said they endured many hardships with this move. Was this just a story told by a grampa to his grandson while fishing?, or was it a verbal history? No one can prove how Frederick fraley reached Virginia. This story was told to my Aunt Lucy Dudek by my great Uncle Rice Fraley.

My Great Uncle Rice Fraley told this story to my Aunt Lucy Dudek.
Uncle Rice Fraley, while fishing with his grampa George Washington Fraley, when they were fishing on a river bank in Ohio, was told this story.
James Fraley, born 1759, and his brother Dan b 1790, migrated from Russell County, Va to Floyd County Ky, where they raised their families.
Daniel," G.W. Fraley's dad," lived on land inherited from GW's mother, Polly Hatfield Fraley's father, John Hatfield, in Floyd County, Kentucky. GW told Rice that Daniel was a old Melita man.
Dan and his brother, James, being a old Melita man , and former Indian scout, during the Revolution, would leave their families and be gone in the mountains for Weeks at a time. They hunted indians and were paid twenty-five cents per scalp by the Indian Agent in Ft. Pleasant, Ohio, and my gramma Polly, being a true pioneer woman, took care of their home and children, while Grampa was gone.
James and Grampa Dan hunted Indians and were paid twenty-five cents per scalp by the Indian agent at Pt. Pleasant, Ohio.
On one of their trips, after collecting their bounty, the two brothers started for their homes, on the Big Sandy River area of Floyd County, Kentucky.
After parting ways, Daniel was in site of his cabin, when without Daniel knowing, a big black bear had started following and tracking him. When Dan was within earshot, he began calling to his wife Polly and children, as he usually did, to announce his home coming. When Polly saw Dan come into view, she also saw the black bear, and realizing that Dan did not know he was being stalked by the bear, who was fastly closing the gap between him and Dan, Polly began yelling for Dan to run. Polly then opened the front and back door of the cabin,( which was a shotgun cabin, with a Straight path from the front to the back door.) Polly yelled to Dan to enter the cabin and climb to the loft. Dan running as fast as he could and got into the loft without the bear seeing him. The bear in hot pursuit ran in the front door and straight out the back door of the cabin. Polly quickly closed and put the bars on the doors.

Rice Fraley Sr. age 73, died at
Oaklawn Hospital July 30,1987.
He was born May 17,1914 to
James Monroe Fraley and Laura
Belle Salyers Fraley in Salyersville,
Ky. In 1937 he married Medie
Bradley in Fremont, In. He is
survived by his wife Medie, five
sons, Ronnie,Rice Jr., Gerald,
Danny and Timothy, four daughters,
Virginia Cleckner, Judy Thacker,
Cathy Shepherd and Candy Tyszko.,
Three brother, Rollie, Thomas and
Warnie, two sisters Cassie Tacey
and cleo Hamilton. Services are
August 3,1987 at Tidd Williams
Funeral Home. Final Resting
Place Albion Memory Gardens,
Albion, Michigan