In 1891 George Frary built a house on a 160 acre homestead on a desert isle. Six years later his wife Alice died and was buried there, at a site she had requested near the orchard and grain field. George Isaac Frary, born Nov. 18, 1854, in Madison, Wisconsin, and Alice Eliza Phillips, born July 21, 1859, in New York, raised their children Guy Prentis, Grace May, Lotti Ada, Edgar Philips, Dora Ide, Frank Marvin, and Florence Hope there. George was stocky and extremely strong, while Alice was frail, 5'2", with blue eyes and very dark hair. Because of Alice's ill health and George's interest in sailing, they chose the island. The children hiked the peaks, swam in the lake, and picked wild flowers, and their mother taught them and played the organ while the family sang favorite songs. Each year they planted a garden irrigated by a fresh spring, and they built a barn and chicken coop in the gully. Their rustic gabled house, built on natural stone, first had one room, and later a kitchen and bedroom were added to the back. A flag waved every morning. As Alice's health worsened, George went to the mainland for medicine, but on his return about midnight a storm capsized his boat, and dawn found him half drowned on the beach. The next day Alice died. A small pink stone marks her grave.