MR. DAVID WILLIAM PARRY. BLAKELY, LACKWANNA, PENNSYLVANIA.
David W. Parry, 79, a retired granite worker and former bandmaster, died at 7:30 Monday evening at his home, 218 Webb street, of a sudden heart attack. He had been in ill health for the past year and had just returned from a visit to the home of Dr. John T. Fowkes, jr., because he had not ben felling well, when he died in his chair.He was born in Wales April 1st, 1865, son of David and Margaret Davies Parry, one of ten children.
He came with his parents to Italy, Wisconsin, in 1877 when he was twelve years old. He graduated from the Italy High School before moving with his parents to Grindstone Island where he became a granite worker. He arranged the granite for the Clayton Circle, the observation point at the foot of John street overlooking the river.
He married Mrs. Mary Forsythe Pritchard of Wales on April 1st, 1900, in New York city at the Welsh Methodist church there and returned to Grindstone Island where they made their home on Parry Point. Parry Point since had been purchased by Allan Bakewell of New York city for his summer home.