Individual Notes
Note for: Mary Alice Frazier, 1 AUG 1866 - 17 FEB 1932
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Residence: Date: 1880
Place: Lincoln, , Christian, Missouri,
Burial: Place: Richwood Cemetery, Christian County, Missouri
Individual Note: Mary Alice Frazier was the daughter of a family which had been three generations in Christian County.
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Note for: Elbert Edmond Dunham, 10 MAY 1891 - 14 SEP 1962
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Alias: Bert /Dunham/
Burial: Place: Frazier Cemetery
Individual Note: Known to the family as Bert. Bert and Hattie lived in Springfield, Missouri, where Bert had a long career working for the Frisco Railroad.
Obituary from the transcription on the Rootsweb Christian County Web site:
Funeral services for Elbert E. Dunham, 71, of Springfield, who died at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept.14 at Springfield Baptist Hospital after a short illness, were held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Herman Lohmeyer East Chapel in Springfield, with Dr. Thomas Field officiating. Burial was in Frazier Cemetery. A retired Frisco employee, Mr. Dunham was a member of Springfield First Baptist Church and the Masonic Lodge. Survivors include a son, Vernon L. Dunham of Independence, Mo.; six brothers, Shirley H. Dunham of Springfield, Leslie W. Dunham of Carthage, Gordon Dunham and Austin Dunham of Nixa, Clarence Dunham of Harland, Iowa, and Ross Dunham of Ozark; two sisters, Mrs. Annie Grubaugh and Mrs. Jane Harper, both of Ozark; and one grandchild.
Note: this clipping from the collection of Audrey (King) Maples has a handwritten date of 1962 in the margin. Contributed by Rada Beth (Hayden) Maples.
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Note for: Annie Bell Dunham, 8 JUL 1892 - 2 DEC 1982
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Burial: Place: Richwood Cemetery, Christian County, Missouri
Individual Note: Annie Dunham was born on the family farm and completed the eighth grade at nearby Richwood School. She had no further formal schooling, as no transportation to a high school was available. She and Edd Grubaugh, from a neighboring farm, were married by Edd's minister father, John A. Grubaugh, in 1910. Except for one year when Edd worked for the Frisco Railroad in Springfield, Annie lived all her life within three miles of her birthplace. In 1929, they bought Edd's home place, farming the land until retiring in 1948. In 1957, they bought a small home in Ozark and lived there until their deaths.
Edd, who had homesteaded land in New Mexico in 1908, returned to marry Annie before completing the five year residency requirement to establish ownership, and they chose to stay in Christian County. Edd suffered a stroke in 1932 which rendered his left hand and forearm useless.
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Note for: Shirley Hershel Dunham, 23 MAR 1894 - 7 AUG 1965
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Individual Note: He served with the American forces in France during WWI. He lived in Springfield, MO where he served as a rural mail carrier for thirty-eight years. (Hist. Sk. of Frazier Fam.)
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Note for: Leslie Ward Dunham, 9 AUG 1896 - 6 JUL 1993
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Individual Note: Served in World War I. Served as a rural mail carrier out of Nixa, Missouri, then in the Carthage Post Office until his retirement.
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Note for: James Gordon Dunham, 28 FEB 1898 - 27 NOV 1983
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Burial: Place: Richwood Cemetery, Christian County, Missouri
Individual Note: Known to family as Gordon.
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Note for: Clarence Vernon Dunham, 13 AUG 1899 - 3 FEB 1975
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Individual Note: In the spring of 1930, Clarence Dunham went to Iowa to farm. Farming two years he then turned to keeping bees. [Frazier sketch]
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Note for: Jane Louise Dunham, 13 APR 1901 - 4 AUG 1998
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Burial: Place: Weaver Cemetery, Christian County, Missouri
Individual Note: Autobiography of Jane Dunham Harper
After graduating in the spring of 1926, I spent the summer at home. That fall and winter I attended college at SMS. The following spring I was elected to teach First and Second grades in the Nixa School. This position I held for three years.
The next year I began teaching First grade in the Ozark School System, where I taught until 1933 when the Economic Depression was so severe that some of the teaching positions had to be eliminated. This took my place for one year, which I spent keeping house for my father. After being recalled to teach the following year I taught five years until I resigned in 1939.
On August 6, 1939, I was married to Leo Harper of Ozark. We are still living on the same acreage just north of Ozark on Old Highway 65 now called NN Highway where we first started house keeping. While I have no children of my own, Leo has five children, ten grand children, twelve great grand children, and one great great grandchild.
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Note for: Ross Howard Dunham, 8 JUL 1902 - 18 DEC 1980
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Individual Note: Autobiography of Ross Dunham
After graduating with the class of 25-26 I worked on the farm at home until fall. Then I rented a farm between Nixa and Clever where I lived alone until Edna and I were married on January 27, 1927. We continued renting until March 1941, when we bought a farm near Nixa where we majored in the turkey business for several years. Later we turned more to dairy farming. This was our home for twenty years, then we sold the farm. Our next venture was to open the Ozark Flower Shop on the southwest corner of the square in Ozark in January, 1959. We operated the shop for fourteen years. In the mean time, we built our present home at 1608 South 7th Street in Ozark. On April 1, 1973, we sold the shop and retired, but still live in Ozark.
We have four children -- one son and three daughters, eight grand-children -- five grandsons and three granddaughters. Our eldest, Etta Jean, is married to Dr. C. R. Farley who is professor of vocal music at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Etta Jean teaches at Centerville school. The have two sons. Our son Warren married Nancy Haymes. They live in Springfield, Missouri. He is sales representative for Chr. Hansen's Laboratory, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They have one son and two daughters. Our next daughter, Phyllis, married Doyle Miller, a Baptist minister. He is pastor of the First Baptist Church in Elk Grove Village in Chicago. They have a son and daughter. Our youngest daughter, Becky, married Don Beeler. He is manager of Home and Federal Savings and Loan in Council Bluffs, Iowa. They have one son.
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Note for: Elisha Edmond Frazier, 29 JUN 1848 - 5 JUN 1928
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Residence: Date: 1920
Place: Lincoln, , Christian, Missouri,
Residence: Date: 1880
Place: Lincoln, , Christian, Missouri,
Residence: Date: 1910
Place: LINCOLN TWP, , CHRISTIAN, Missouri,
Residence: Date: 1850
Place: Porter, , Greene, Missouri,
Burial: Place: Frazier Cemetery
Individual Note: Elisha E. Frazier was born in McMinn County, TN in 1848 and died while on a visit with his son in Aurora, Missouri in 1928. On one of his trips to the mouth of Linn Creek for supplies for his father's general store, Elisha took sick near Springfield and was taken to the home of Joseph Sharp, who then lived in Springfield. During his sickness and convalescence, a warm friendship sprung up between Elisha and Jane Sharp. This friendship ripened into love and soon afterward they were married at the home of Joseph Sharp in Springfield. They made the trip from there to Lorenza Frazier's on horseback and began their married life together on a farm near where Boaz now stands.
After seven or eight years, they moved to Howell County, Missouri, and were there for two years, and then they returned to Christian County, and located on the west bank of James River on the farm owned by Joseph Sharp. This farm was later passed down to Elisha's daughter Phoebe Frazier Cobb. Elisha E. Frazier and his family lived here until 1894 when they moved to Lorenza Frazier's old home place where they continued to live until the death of Jane Sharp, except for about a year which they spent at Marionville, Missouri. The house which they occupied on the old home farm was built by Lorenza Frazier of pine lumber hauled from Arkansas and dressed by hand about 1860. Elisha enlarged and remodeled it in 1896 and after Jane Sharp's death it was destroyed by fire.
Elisha and Jane Frazier lived together almost 60 years and were the parents of twelve children, six boys and six girls. Besides their own children they took in an orphan boy, Alfred E. Henry the first year after they were married when he was about four years old.
Elisha's education was very limited but he was a respected citizen and leader in the community in which he lived. When the "Bald Knobbers" were rounded up after their last act of lawlessness and four of them were being tried for murder, the Sheriff of the County being disqualified, Elisha acted as sheriff during the trial at which the four were sentenced to be hung. He never sought public office, but allowed his name to be placed as a candidate for Judge of the County Court and was elected for a term of four years. He served from November 17, 1906 to November, 1910.
[from D. S. Frazier's Historical Sketch of the Fraziers]
ELISHA E. FRAZIER
The subject of this sketch is one of the prominent farmers and stockraisers of Lincoln Township. He is the son of Dr. Lorenzo Lowe and Hannah (Bryant) Frazier, natives probably of North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively, the former born July 11, 1819, and the latter March 3, 1821. When a boy Dr. Frazier went with his parents to Tennessee, and received a moderate education, but a rather liberal one for that day. On the 9th of July, 1839, he was married to Miss Bryant and later emigrated to Missouri, where he taught school for some time. He served under Capt. Cunningham in the removal of the Cherokee Indians to the Territory, and for this received a tract of land in what is now Lincoln Township, Christian County, Mo. To this farm he removed in 1849, and died on the same August 31, 1890. When a young man he read medicine with a Dr. Clark in Tennessee, but followed agricultural pursuits until after he came to Missouri, which was about 1847 or 1848. For the first year or so he rented land, but on account of the ill health of the family there moved the next year two miles west, on his grant and into a rail pen with his wagon cover for a roof. Gradually, after coming to Missouri, he began practicing his profession and soon became the leading physician of the entire region. He was a contemporary with Dr. E. T. Robertson and practiced all over the region during the war. He met with many thrilling adventures and was often captured and chased by bushwhackers, etc. Early in the war he became first lieutenant of a company of Home Guards, and as they were without a captain at the beginning of the Wilson'’s Creek fight he commanded the company. During this engagement his command was cut off and he and others retreated into Kansas. He soon returned, and many of the Confederate citizens requested Gen. Price, who was then in command of the Confederate forces at Springfield, to allow Dr. Frazier to practice his profession without molestation. He took the oath and was permitted to practice at his will. In this and adjacent counties he was well known and very popular. Formerly a Democrat in politics, he later affiliated with the Republican party and although frequently solicited to run for office his devotion to this profession caused him to refuse. From the age of nineteen he was a devoted Methodist and his career was above reproach. His father, John Frazier, was probably born in North Carolina and from there removed to Tennessee at an early date. He was of French origin and a Revolutionary soldier. He and wife passed the closing scenes of their lives in Tennessee, where they reared eleven children, six sons and five daughters, only four of whom came to Missouri. The mother of our subject was also a worthy member of the Methodist Church. Her death occurred December 24, 1887. Her father was a millwright by trade and followed that in Tennessee until his death. He was of English-German descent.
Our subject was the fifth in order of birth of nine children born to his parents, as follows: Keziah, wife of P. M. Maples, of Stone County; Rebecca, widow of B. F. Rhodes, resides in this county;\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Sarah Jane died in early youth; Elizabeth died in Tennessee when a child; subject; Minerva, wife of Timothy Maples, of this county; John Winton died young; Solomon Bryant died young, and Samuel Grant, of this county. The original of this notice was born in Bradley County, Tenn., June 29, 1847, and like the average country boy his time was divided in assisting on the farm and in attending the district school where he secured a fair education. When eighteen years of age he started out for himself as a tiller of the soil, and by his father’s advice remained at home during the war to care for the farm and family. He was captured three times by the Confederate soldiers, but was soon afterward released. On the 20th of August, 1865, he was married to Miss Margaret Jane Sharp, a native of Greene County (now Christian County), Mo., and the daughter of Joseph B. and Mary Sharp, who came to Tennessee from North Carolina at an early date. Both died at the home of our subject. Mr. Sharp was a farmer by occupation. During the gold fever excitement he went to California, where he remained several years. He also made several trips back to Tennessee with a four horse team. To our subject and wife have been born twelve children, as follows: Mary, wife of V. L. Dunham; Joseph Lorenzo; Susan Jane, wife of A. J. Holder; Sarah Victoria died when nine years of age; James Sharp; Charley Edmond; Nannie Belle; David Solomon; Phoebe Keziah; Lydia Lowe; Martin Eli, deceased, and an infant. In 1867 Mr. Frazier removed to Howell County, Mo., where he began improving a claim, and where he remained for four years. He then returned to the old home place in Christian County. This was in 1872 and he has since resided here. He is the owner of 880 acres in different tracts, 460 acres in the home farm, mostly fine bottom land. Mr. Frazier raises cattle, horses, hogs, and has about 450 acres under cultivation, having cleared all but about 100 acres himself. He has held a number of local positions and was justice of the peace nine years. Socially he is a member of Friend Lodge, A. F. & A. M., No. 352, at Ozark, and he and his wife have affiliated with the Methodist Church for over a quarter of a century and are devoted Christians. His father was also active in religious work and when he first came to Missouri there was no Methodist organization in his neighborhood. He took it upon himself to engage a minister and erected a small church on land which he afterward donated to the church, together with a burying-ground. This is known as Lorenzo Chapel.
From A Reminiscent History of the Ozarks Region
Christian County Missouri Histories published in 1894