{"id":230,"date":"2011-10-31T20:37:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T01:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea2\/?p=230"},"modified":"2011-11-06T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T21:05:14","slug":"goodspeed-biography-abner-w-frazier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/goodspeed-biography-abner-w-frazier\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodspeed Biography Abner W. Frazier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abner W. Frazier<\/strong>, an influential citizen of Rhea County, and resident of Dayton, was born in Rhea County, Tenn., October 21, 1821.\u00a0 His parents, Beriah and Barbara (Gibbs<\/strong>) Frazier, were of Scotch-Irish and German descent respectively.\u00a0 The father was a native North Carolinian, born May 4, 1776, and died in Rhea County October 25, 1858.\u00a0 The mother was born April 18, 1789, in Knox County, Tenn., and died in Rhea County July 8, 1866.\u00a0 They were married in Knox County, Tenn., May 1, 1806, and lived in that county until 1818, at which time they came to Rhea County, and settled eight miles east of Dayton, on the Tennessee River, where they passed the remainder of their Days.\u00a0 They were among the first settlers of Rhea County, immigrating there several years before the Indians left.\u00a0 The father, before he came to Rhea County, was engaged in the service of the United States, concerning the Indians on the Tennessee River.\u00a0Our subject’s father was a farmer and a prominent citizen of Rhea County.\u00a0 He held the office of justice of the peace for several years. The Frazier family is largely connected in Tennessee.\u00a0 Judge Frazier, of Davidson County, was the first cousin to the subject of this sketch.\u00a0 Abner W. Frazier was one of a large family of children. He secured a good academic education, and assisted his father on the plantation, remaining there until the death of his parents.\u00a0 In 1867 he purchased and settled on a farm, giving his attention exclusively to agricultural pursuits up to 1883, at which time he sold out and moved to Dayton, and retired to private life.\u00a0 September 2, 1858, he married Miss Mary J. Craighead<\/strong>, a native of Alabama, born in Jackson County October 8, 1829.\u00a0 This union resulted in the birth of one son and one daughter; the latter, Mary B., was born October 21, 1861, and died September 8, 1886.\u00a0 She had married M. G. McDonald<\/strong> October 8, 1884, and left a son, Carl, who was born August 14, 1886.\u00a0 B. A. Frazier, son of our subject, was born November 21, 1859, and is the well-known and popular editor of the Dayton News-Gazette.\u00a0 A. W. Frazier is a Democrat, and a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.\u00a0 His grandfather, Samuel Frazier, was born in 1759 beyond the waters. He came to America at an early day, and fought for independence, and took part in the battle of Guilford Court House, North Carolina.\u00a0 The grandmother, Rebecca (Julian<\/strong>) Frazier, was born March 17, 1749.\u00a0 She was a French Huguenot, and settled in South Carolina with her ancestors.<\/p>\n

Published by The Goodspeed Publishing Co 1887<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abner W. Frazier, an influential citizen of Rhea County, and resident of Dayton, was born in Rhea County, Tenn., October 21, 1821.\u00a0 His parents, Beriah and Barbara (Gibbs) Frazier, were of Scotch-Irish and German descent respectively.\u00a0 The father was a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[60,18,59,62,61],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goodspeed","tag-craighead","tag-frazier","tag-gibbs","tag-julian","tag-mcdonald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}