Individual Notes

Note for: Kiziah Frazier, 18 JAN 1842 - 2 DEC 1909 Index

Burial:
Place: Frazier Cemetery

Individual Notes

Note for: Rebecca Frazier, 9 OCT 1844 - ABT 1928 Index

Individual Note:
Went to Colorado about 1900 and died there about 1928. They had one son Samuel Rhodes, who also went to Colorado. Sadie Rhodes and Villa Rhodes also went to Colorado. [Frazier sketch]

Individual Notes

Note for: Hariett Minerva Frazier, 23 AUG 1853 - 12 AUG 1929 Index

Burial:
Place: Manley Cemetery, Christian County, Missouri

Individual Notes

Note for: Samuel Grant Frazier, 1 JUL 1864 - 6 JAN 1925 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Frazier Cemetery

Individual Note:
     Rev. Samuel G. Frazier was a minister in the Baptist Church. He and Vesta raised their family one-half mile east of Boaz. [Frazier Sketch]

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Note for: John Frazier, 4 FEB 1771 - BET 1850 AND 1860 Index

Residence:
     Date:   1850
     Place:   Subdivision 26, , Bradley, Tennessee,

Individual Note:
     John Frazier was born in North Carolina and later moved to Tennessee. He and his wife passed the closing scenes of their lives in Tennessee, where they reared 11 children, six sons and five daughters, only four of whom came to Missouri.
"A Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region"

(Source: The book on John Frazier by Esther B. Carpenter.) was born 04/02/1771 in Guilford County, N.C., and died 1874 in Bradley County, Tennessee. He married REBECCA LOW (Source: Internet, Family tradition.) Abt. 1789 in Randolph, North Carolina, daughter of SAMUEL LOW and TABITHA SKEEN.

All evidence (mostly circumstantial) points to this John as our John. There were many John Fraziers in North Carolina at this time. John went from Guilford County over the county line to Randolph where he found Rebecca and married her about 1789. In the 1790 census John Frazier has a wife and one small male child. Six children were born in 1809 and later in North Carolina. About 1825 John and family moved to Monroe County, Tennessee, where he is listed on tax list for 1826 and 1827. For the 1840 census they were in McMinn County, Tennessee. The 1850 census showed him in Bradley County, Tennessee (Bradley County was formed from a part of McMinn County and others in 1836). This census showed both John and Rebecca to be 78 years old and both born in North Carolina. They probably died before 1860 census, since they are not listed. Four of the children moved to Missouri.
     On the 1850 Census, daughter Kizziah and two children; John and Mary Melissa are also in the home. Kizziah first married Daniel Pearce and had two children. Kizziah married again in 1850 to George Ghan. They moved to Christian County, Missouri about 1869. Lorenzo Low, Thomas J. and Abigail also moved to Missouri.
Sources of information: Records of Mamie Dunagan, and Waunetta Ledford.
Monroe County, TN. records; census; family records of Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Ghan; and Oleta Ownby
"A Historical Sketch of the Frazier Family" by D. S. Frazier
Research done by Esther Carpenter, Bradley County Historical Center.
(and Jean Frazier Freshour)

Individual Notes

Note for: Rebecca Low, ABT 1774 - BET 1850 AND 1860 Index

Individual Note:
"an Irish girl" from D. S. Frazier's Historical Sketch of the Frazier Family

Rebecca's father was Samuel Low/Lau/Lowe who was Born about 1723 in Germany, Rheinland Pfalz HRE. He married Tabitha [Skeen] about 1744. Samuel came to this country, probably following his parents and other members of the family. Samuel is first found in Guilford County, N.C. about 1760.
(from Jean Frazier Freshour)

Individual Notes

Note for: Abigail Frazier, 12 MAR 1812 - 6 SEP 1885 Index

Burial:
Place: Frazier Cemetery, Christian County, Missouri

Individual Notes

Note for: Kesiah Frazier, 28 DEC 1817 - 6 OCT 1888 Index

Alias:   Kizziah /Frazier/

Burial:
     Place:   Frazier Cemetery

Individual Notes

Note for: Joseph D. Sharp, 12 NOV 1813 - 6 DEC 1873 Index

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

Residence:
     Date:   1870
     Place:   Howell, , Howell, Missouri,

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

Burial:
     Place:   Near West Plains in Howell County, Missouri

Individual Note:
     Joseph Sharp made the trip across the plains with a wagon train in 1849 to dig gold in California. He found some gold but after a few years in California, he returned to his family by the way of the Isthmus of Panama, the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River.

He 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 house during the Wilson Creek battle.

From the Park Ranger at the Wilson Creek Battlefield, dated Sept. 21, 2000 to Lois Smith, great-great-granddaughter of Anna:

Lois--

Joseph D. Sharp was born in Tennessee (one account says South Carolina) on
November 13, 1813 and died on December 6, 1876. As a young man he came to
Missouri, at least by 1843, and settled in what is now Christian Count
Mary M. Howard, his wife, was born in North Carolina on August 31, 1810 and
died on September 14, 1867. Both are buried near West Plains in Howell
County, Missouri. They were married in 1846. Some accounts say four
children, others five. The 1860 census lists Mary E, age 15; Margaret J.,
age 13; Robert, age 12, and Anney E., age 8. Following the Battle of
Wilson's Creek, the Sharps moved to Howell County.

I hope this is helpful.

Sincerely,

Jeff Patrick
Park Ranger

Individual Notes

Note for: Mary M. Howard, 31 AUG 1810 - 14 SEP 1867 Index

Burial:
Place: Near West Plains in Howell County, Missouri

Individual Notes

Note for: Francis Ross Howard, 7 FEB 1777 - 23 JUL 1819 Index

Individual Note:
English (Hist. Sk. of Frazier Fam.)