James A. Frazier (1838 - 1930)

Born 21 Mar 1838 in Roney's Point, Ohio, VA

Husband of Mary (McLean) Frazier — married 4 Apr 1866 in Claysville, Washington, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 18 Jan 1930 at age 91 in Omena, Leelanau, Michigan, United States

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Biography

This was my grandfather and many of his civil war letters and records are in our family possessions.

James Frazier was born in 1838. He was the eldest child of David Frazier and Nancy Giffin. He was born and raised in Roney's Point, Ohio County, [West] Virginia. James Frazier was living in his parents' household in both 1850 and 1860. In thr latter year the U.S. Census taker described him as a 21-year-old "farm laborer."

By 1870 James Frazier had married and established a household of his own. In that year, he, his wife, Mary, and their three young children, John, Elizabet, and Samuel were living in Donegal Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, near James' parents. The U.S. Census taker described James Frazier as a "miller."

Ten years later, James Frazier and his family had moved a little more than a hundred miles southwest, to Muskingum Township, in Washington County, Ohio. The household had expanded to eight with the addition of three more children: Mary, Robin, and "Infant Frazier." The U.S. Census taker noted that seven'year'old Robin had been born in Kansas, which suggests that James and Mary may have taken the family West for a few years. In any case James was still working as a miller.

James Frazier was a veteran of the Civil War having served in Company K of the First West Virginia Regiment of Volunteer Cavalry, enlisted at Valley Grove, Ohio County, Virginia. In James' 1915 application to the U.S. Department of the Interior for a military pension it states that he and his wife Mary had six children, all living, and 22 grandchildren.

On February 6, 1916, Mary (McClean) Frazier died at her home in Austin, Neosho County, Kansas. Her body was taken to Durango, Colorado for burial.

James Frazier's obituary statesvthat he was a resident of Austin for 40 years and that he died on January 18, 1930 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary Freeland in Omena, Michigan. He was 91 years old and was to be buried in Elco, Colorado by the side of his wife and son, Samuel Frazier, who died on Christmas Day in 1925.^[1]

James Frazier, March 21, 1838. Civil War Veteran, First West Virginia cavalry. Still living in 1923.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ *Fraziers of Roney's Point, West Virginia : Ten Generations on the National Road by Mark Frazier Lloyd, 2008.
2. ↑ *Giffen: Genealogic Family History Of Descendents Of Robert Giffen and Mary Bane Giffen: Settlers At Big Spring, Pa., in 1777, Removed To Wheeling, Virginia, 1787, J. W. Giffen D.D., - Central Pub. House – 1927, (170 pages).

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