George Issac Frary, his wife Alice Eliza Phillips Frary, and five of their seven children—Guy, Grace, Lottie, Dora, and Frank—lived, worked, and played at this Antelope Island homestead from 1891 to 1902. George and Alice married in Wisconsin in 1878, lived in Colorado for about 10 years, and settled in Utah in 1891, when George filed a claim for 160 acres on Antelope Island and the family built a small house there. After eight years of hard work, George obtained title to the land in 1899. The family grew with the births of Frank Marvin in 1894 and Florence Hope in 1897, but when Florence was only two months old, Alice died and was buried near the homestead. The Frarys endured hardship, tragedy, and isolation, yet the children remembered happiness, songs and stories, learning, and exploration. In 1902, they left the island so the younger children could attend school, taking little more than a trunk of possessions, and over time the house and other structures were reclaimed by the elements, leaving only scattered remnants of their life there.