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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
THE
HISTORY OF CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO
Volume 2 of 2
containing
A History of the County; Its Townships, Cities, Towns, Schools,
Churches, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of
Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the
Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of
Clinton County; Constitution of the
United States, Miscellaneous
Matters, Etc., Etc.
- Illustrated -
Chicago:
W. H. Beers & Co.
1882
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LEWIS FRAZIER, farmer, P. O. New Vienna,
born on the farm where he now lives Apr. 24, 1826, is a son of
Abraham and Margaret Frazier, he a native of North
Carolina, and she of Tennessee. The grandfather,
William Frazier, emigrated from North Carolina to
Tennessee, where he lived and died, at the ripe old age of
nearly ninety years. Abraham Frazier was but
an infant child when his father moved from North Carolina to
Tennessee, and there he grew to manhood. In 1812, he came
to Ohio, and settled in Clinton County adjoining his brother
Eli, who had settled here one year previously. Here
Abraham purchased 100 acres of his brother, and remained one
year, then returned to Tennessee, and married Margaret
Coppock, of Strawberry Plains. Thence he took his wife
on horseback, with a feather bed and a few effects for
housekeeping, and thus journeyed all the way through the
wilderness to, his new home in Clinton County, Ohio, and here
commenced right in the woods, and lived the true log cabin life,
enduring all the hardships of those days. He was an
industrious, hardworking man; though a man of no education, yet
he was a man of great integrity of character, and lived a very
quiet and upright life; was never sued in law, and never sued
any man, and died highly esteemed and respected. He died
Mar. 22, 1862, aged seventy-seven. His wife died June 29,
1845, aged fifty-two years. They had nine children, six
now survive—William, Madison, Eliza
(married to Jacob Quigley), Lewis, Margery A.
(married to Abraham Skeen), and Aaron; the latter
resides in Oregon. The subject of this sketch grew to
manhood on the farm where he was born, and where he still lives;
was married May 28, 1853, to Margaret A. Quigley, who was
born in Berkeley County, Va., Dec. 24, 1832, a daughter of
Michael and Margaret Quigley, he a native of Lancaster
County, Penn., and she of North Carolina; they had nine
children, six now survive—Jacob, Mary Ellen (married to
William Tarr), Margaret A., Michael, Jane (married
to Simeon Pennington, and resides in Indiana), and
Alice Virginia (married to Peter Malott). Mr.
Frazier and wife have eight children— John W., born
Apr. 18, 1854; Abe, born Dec. 2, 1855; Alpheus,
born Aug. 25, 1858; Albron Gage, born Feb.
12, 1861; Carrie Ella, born July 27, 1863;
Maggie Oral, born Aug. 27, 1866; Aaron J.,
born Apr. 27, 1869, and Mary Lizzie, born July 27, 1877.
Mr. Frazier has spent his entire life upon the old home
farm, which has now been in possession of the Frazier family
for seventy years. This place, which in 1812 was one
unbroken forest, is now nearly all in fine cultivated fields
with good improvements, and now Mr. Frazier is very
comfortably situated and ranks among the “ well-to-do ” farmers
of Clinton County; is a man of integrity and high moral
character, and like his father was never sued and never sued any
man, and was never called before a court as a witness—a
remarkable incident for a man of his age.
History of Clinton Co., OH, Vol. 2, Published 1882 - Page 993 |
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