Alfred E. Henry, b. Abt. 1862, d. 1900, Taken into the home of Elisha and Jane the first year after they were married when he was about four years old. He remained with them until he was grown. He was killed in the Howell County jail by a condemned criminal while serving as deputy sheriff and jailor of Howell County in 1900.
Joseph Lorenza Frazier, b. March 21, 1868, d. June 2, 1900
Susan Hannah Frazier Holder, b. Dec. 27, 1869, d. Aug. 17, 1952
Sarah Victoria Frazier, b. Feb. 3, 1872, d. abt. 1880
James Sharp Frazier, b. Apr. 8, 1874, d. Sept. 8, 1949
Charles Edmond Frazier, b. Feb. 20, 1876, d. July 19, 1922
Nannie Bell Frazier Faris, b. Apr. 13, 1878
David Solomon Frazier, b. June 18, 1880, d. Dec. 23, 1977
Infant Frazier, b. 1882, d. 1882
Phoebe Keziah Frazier Cobb, b. Nov. 21, 1883
Lydia Low Frazier Peebles, b. July 20, 1886, d. Apr. 27, 1961
Martin Eli Frazier, b. May 21, 1888, d. Jan. 15, 1891
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Elisha and Jane's Children |
Elisha Edmond Frazier, b. June 29, 1848 in McMinn Co. , TN d. June 5, 1928 in Aurora, MO
m. July 20, 1865 in Springfield, MO
Margaret Jane Sharp, b. Dec. 23, 1846 in Springfield, MO, d. Jan. 26, 1924 in Boaz, MO
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Elisha and Jane's Children |
Alfred E. Henry, b. Abt. 1862, d. 1900, Taken into the home of Elisha and Jane the first year after they were married when he was about four years old. He remained with them until he was grown. He was killed in the Howell County jail by a condemned criminal while serving as deputy sheriff and jailor of Howell County in 1900.
Joseph Lorenza Frazier, b. March 21, 1868, d. June 2, 1900
Susan Hannah Frazier Holder, b. Dec. 27, 1869, d. Aug. 17, 1952
Sarah Victoria Frazier, b. Feb. 3, 1872, d. abt. 1880
James Sharp Frazier, b. Apr. 8, 1874, d. Sept. 8, 1949
Charles Edmond Frazier, b. Feb. 20, 1876, d. July 19, 1922
Nannie Bell Frazier Faris, b. Apr. 13, 1878
David Solomon Frazier, b. June 18, 1880, d. Dec. 23, 1977
Infant Frazier, b. 1882, d. 1882
Phoebe Keziah Frazier Cobb, b. Nov. 21, 1883
Lydia Low Frazier Peebles, b. July 20, 1886, d. Apr. 27, 1961
Martin Eli Frazier, b. May 21, 1888, d. Jan. 15, 1891
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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 ans 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]
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. |
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