John C. Frazier

John C. Frazier


From History of Tennessee From the Earliest Time to The Present
Goodspeed Publishing Co.
Nashville, TN
1887

Retyped for the page by Eileen McCarey
2002

John C. Frazier, farmer and stock raiser, of the Fourth District of Sumner County, is the son of George and Elizabeth (CAGE) Frazier and was born in Sumner County in 1835, being an only child. The father was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, being born in Mississippi about 1816, and received a good education. He was twice married; first, to our subject's mother, in 1834, and in 1839 to Ann Eliza Cage, a cousin of his first wife. One child was the issue of this marriage, but it died. He was a planter and a life resident of Mississippi, where he died in 1840. The mother was born in Wilson County, Tenn., in 1817, and died in 1835. John C. Frazier was raised partly in Mississippi and partly in Sumner County, by different relatives, receiving his early education in Sumner County, then entered Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tenn., with the intention of taking a scientific course, but was forced by ill health to abandon the idea. He completed his education at Franklin College, July 19, 1860. Mr. Frazier married Miss Mary E., daughter of Bernice and Ann E. BENDER, of Sumner County. They have two sons and two daughters: William B., Elizabeth S., Bright B. and Birdie Belle. He first located in Mississippi until 1863, then moved to Sumner County, and has since lived here and in Davidson County, engaging in farming and stock-raising, and owning a beautiful farm five miles southwest of Gallatin on the Nashville Pike. Mr. Frazier has displayed energy and sound judgment in his farming operations, and has met with marked success. He was formerly a Whig in politics, but is now a Democrat. His first presidential vote was for M. Fillmore in 1856. He was formerly a member of the I.O.O.F. Mrs. and Mrs. Frazier and their oldest daughter are prominent members of the Christian Church. Mrs. Frazier was born in Sumner County in 1842. He is a useful citizen, and a man of fine moral character.

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