Individual Notes

Note for: Margaret Jane Sharp, 23 DEC 1846 - 26 JAN 1924 Index

Residence:
     Date:   1860
     Place:   Porter, , Christian, Missouri,

Residence:
     Date:   1850
     Place:   Porter, , Greene, Missouri,

Burial:
     Place:   Frazier Cemetery

Individual Note:
     D. S. Frazier wrote about his mother in the Historical Sketch of the Fraziers:

"My mother, growing up in a pioneer state and during the Civil War, did not have much opportunity to secure an education. But being a great lover of books and possessing a keen mind, she not only reigned as the queen in the home but she so improved her mind by reading the best literature and by keeping abreast with current topics that before her death she had a store of knowledge that one usually associates with those who have had the opportunities of higher education. She inspired in her children a love of books that was the chief inspiration of the writer of this sketch for whatever accomplishments he may have attained."

Margaret Jane Sharp's father Joseph married Mary M. Howard after coming to Missouri and settled on Wilson Creek near Springfield on the Wilson Creek Battlefield. They were living there when this battle was fought. General Price placed his cannon along the side of the yard putting the house in the line of fire from the Union Army. The family was in the cellar during the battle and although two cannon balls passed through the house and many small missiles struck it, none of the family were injured. They lived there until sometime during the Civil War when the house burned. They then moved to a place on James River, two miles east of Boaz. (from A Historical Sketch of the Frazier Family by D. S. Frazier)

The Sharps were slave owners with 3 or 4 slaves and were Confederate sympathizers. The confederate troops had camped on the Sharp farm and stripped corn from the fields in the days before the battle, but the battle was a surprise to the family because the Union troops came up in the night. The family story is that the family learned of the battle only when a cannonball ripped into the house during breakfast. A curator from the museum at the Wilson Creek Battlefield said that Grandma Sharp said, "No damn Yankee bullet's going to get me " and sat on the porch in her rocking chair during the battle. An officer told the family that they had better put a hospital flag on the house and take in wounded soldiers or the house would be destroyed. Margaret Sharp told her grandchildren about her memories of the wounded soldiers being brought into the house. After the battle, the fields were full of dead animals which made them unfit to farm. The family moved to another property that the Sharp family owned and then moved to the James River farm. (family lore) Joe Dunham has a dutch oven pot that was in the Sharp house during the Wilson Creek battle.

Individual Notes

Note for: Susan Hannah Jane Frazier, 27 DEC 1869 - 17 AUG 1952 Index

Burial:
Place: Frazier Cemetery

Individual Notes

Note for: Sarah Victoria Frazier, 3 FEB 1872 - 12 JUN 1881 Index

Alias:   /Sallie/

Burial:
     Place:   Frazier Cemetery

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Note for: Phoebe Keziah Frazier, 21 NOV 1883 - 1 MAR 1966 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Frazier Cemetery, Chirstian County, MO

Individual Note:
     Phobe Frazier Cobb had Rh incompatibility with her pregnancies. Even Felice, who lived, may have been impaired.

Individual Notes

Note for: Thomas W. Dunham, 26 SEP 1829 - 2 APR 1890 Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Blacksmith

Residence:
     Date:   1860
     Place:   Orleans, , Ionia, Michigan,

Residence:
     Date:   1880
     Place:   Finley, , Christian, Missouri,

Residence:
     Date:   1850
     Place:   Palmyra, , Wayne, New York,

Burial:
     Place:   Richwood Cemetery, Christian County, Missouri

Individual Note:
     Thomas was born in Lyons Township, Wayne County, New York. In the 1850 census, Thomas is listed as living in a house in Palmyra, NY with other apprentice blacksmiths.

While still living in New York, Thomas married Maria Louisa Stevens. During the same decade as his parents (around 1855), Thomas moved his family to Michigan and bought a farm in the vicinity of Ionia, Michigan. In 1867, Thomas moved his family to Ozark, Christian County, Missouri.

[from Bob Dunham who researched census, probate, land and cemetery records]

Individual Notes

Note for: Mariah Louisa Stevens, 4 JAN 1830 - 30 APR 1910 Index

Burial:
Place: Richwood Cemetery, Christian County, Missouri

Individual Notes

Note for: Dora Ann Lawson, 12 OCT 1865 - JUN 1936 Index

Burial:
Place: Kolb Cemetery

Individual Notes

Note for: Charles N. Maybee, - 29 OCT 1896 Index

Individual Note:
From Montreal, Canada

Individual Notes

Note for: Annie E. Maybee, 3 JUN 1892 - 18 DEC 1935 Index

Individual Note:
Nickname: "Lida"

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Note for: Winnie May Maybee, 27 MAY 1893 - Index

Individual Note:
Nickname "Mamie"
Raised by Steven and Margaret Handy.