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83. BARBARA J.⁴ FRAZIER (THOMAS N. FRAZIER³ JR., THOMAS SR.² FRAZIER, GEORGE THOMAS¹)⁴¹ was born May 21, 1816 in Greene Co; Tennessee, and died May 25, 1908. She married THOMAS NEWTON COPELAND^42,⁴³ October 15, 1835 in Putnam Co; Indiana, son of HUGH COPELAND and MARTHA WILSON. He was born April 27, 1811 in North Carolina, and died June 19, 1892 in Rockford Twp, Pottawattamie Co; IA.

Notes for BARBARA J. FRAZIER:
M.V.T. Jan. 10, 1907
Loveland, IA, Jan. 2, 1907

Mrs. Barbara (Frazier) Copeland was born near Greenville, Greene County, East Tennessee, May 21, 1816, and died Dec. 25, 1906, aged 90 years, 7 months and 4 days. She moved with her father's family to Indiana in 1831, was married to T.N. Copeland (deceased) Oct. 15, 1835, came to Iowa in 1852 and lived in her late residence since 1856. To her ten children were born, of whom four daughters and one son are living, Mrs. Mary S. Goss, Mrs. Sarah Henderson, Mrs. Tirzah Kelsey, Mrs.Tressa Hutchison, H. C. Copeland; also about 35 grandchildren, all of whom were present with the exception of Miss Josephine Copeland of Wheatland.

Notes for THOMAS NEWTON COPELAND:
History of Pottawattamie County, 1882
THOMAS N. COPELAND, farmer, P.O. Loveland, was born in North Carolina in 1811, but was raised in Indiana, to which state his parents had moved when he was seven years old. He lived in Indiana until he came to this state in 1852. He was married in 1835 to Miss Barbara Frazier, born in Tennessee in 1816. She moved to Indiana with her parents when she was small. Mr. and Mrs. Copeland have five children living, four daughters and one son, all of whom are married and are living near them. They have buried four children--three boys and one girl; the oldest son dying in September, 1881. Our subject's oldest son, J. A. Copeland, two sons-in-law and four brothers were in the late Civil War, which they went through without receiving a scratch.

Our subject arrived in this county in the fall of 1852. He came across the country in wagons, and made the trip of 500 miles in just four weeks. The winter following his arrival he passed just over the line in Harrison County. In February 1853 he bought a 700-acre claim of Isaac Cox, for which he paid $470. He entered this, and shortly afterward moved on to it, living the first two years in a Mormon cabin. His farm now consists of 260 acres. With the exception of seventy acres which he sold, the balance of this original farm has gone to his children.

His present home was built in the summer of 1855. It was constructed mostly of cottonwood. Part of the original siding is still on. The house is 32x32, part of which is two stories high and has a basement. Our subject has been engaged in farming ever since coming to this county. He also ran a mill for nine years. The mill was erected by Loveland and Crayton, our subject purchasing the interest of Mr. Crayton. For nine years the firm name was Copeland and Loveland. His partner failing, our subject took the mill, afterward selling it to Hawthorne & Co., who are its present owners. Our subject has always taken an active interest in school and township affairs, and has done much toward the prosperity and advancement of his section. Although seventy-one years old, he can read readily without the use of glasses, and his eyes appear to be stronger than they were forty years ago. In politics, he was first a Whig and afterward a Republican.

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From the History of Pottawattamie County, 1891
T.N. COPELAND, a prominent farmer of Rockford Township, was born in North Carolina, April 27, 1811, son of Hugh and Martha (Wilson) Copeland, natives also of North Carolina and of Irish ancestry. Hugh Copeland, left an orphan when young, was reared by a tanner, whose trade he learned. At the age of twenty-one years he was married, given a set of tools, bought a piece of property and commenced business for himself, which he followed for a number of years. He afterward moved to Jackson County, Indiana, where his wife died in 1820, leaving five children: T.N. (our subject), Tirzah, Sophronia, Elizabeth and Armstrong; all deceased excepting our subject. After the death of his wife Mr. Hugh Copeland resided at several places in Indiana, then settled in Buchanan County, Missouri, taking up claims. In the spring of 1853 he bought a farm in Fremont County, Iowa, and lived upon it several years. In the meantime, he married his second wife, who died in 1875, leaving nine children: W.B., John F., Hiram, Hugh, Abner, Hester, Asenath, Martha, and Amos. After her death Mr. Copeland sold the farm and made his home in Sidney, Iowa, where his daughter kept house for him until his death in 1880.

Mr. T. N. Copeland, the subject of this sketch, was brought up on a farm. From the age of twenty-two years he worked four years in a mill, in the meantime being married. He next bought a tract of heavy timber land, which he improved for fifteen years; and then, in 1852, he came to Pottawattamie County, and has ever since resided in Rockford Township. There he first bought a claim and entered 800 acres of the present place, which was then wild land, prairie and timber; but a few acres were cleared, and here he began anew, built a residence thirty-two feet square and two-stories high and making all the buildings necessary for a comfortable and convenient home, including an orchard of two acres, a fine grove of ornamental trees, etc. The premises denote prosperity and good judgment.

At the present time he has 240 acres of fine land, on section 3, township 77 north and range 44 west, in the vicinity of Loveland. In actual cultivation there are 150 acres, while the remainder is in hay, pasture and timber. He gave the site for a grist-mill, afterward bought a half interest in the mill and ran it for ten years. He also dealt extensively in cattle, horses and hogs, but not recently. Also he was for a time an extensive dealer in grain, with considerable profit. Now, in his old age, he is enjoying the well-earned results of an industrious and honorable life.

Politically his first vote was cast for the old Whig leader, Henry Clay, for President of the United States, and he has been a reliable Republican since the organization of that party, having done much efficient work for the advancement of its primary principles. He has been treasurer of his township twenty years, and school director for a number of years.

October 15, 1835, Mr. Copeland married Miss Barbara, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Shafer) Frazier, parents natives of Tennessee and Pennsylvania respectively, and of German and Irish ancestry. They had eight children, as follows: Champan, who resides in Harrison County, this State; Levina, wife of Lewis Christian, residing in Buchanan, Missouri; James in this county; John deceased; Sarah, wife of Francis Friend, in Illinois; Malinda, wife of W.B. Copeland; and Elizabeth, now Mrs. Reuben Coffee.

Mrs. Copeland, the third child in the above family, was born May 12, 1816, and was married when past nineteen years of age. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Copeland have been ten in number, namely, John Fletcher, who died in infancy; Mary Sophronia, now Mrs. John Goss, in Harrison County; William Mead, deceased; Tirzah, married Jay Hutchinson and resides in Rockford Township; Henry Clay, a resident of this county; and Hugh and Martha, deceased. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal and Baptist churches. All the children are settled in the vicinity, and all the grandchildren attend the same school.

NOTE: The reference to Thomas and Mary Shafer Frazier is not known to be correct. Thomas was a native of Tennesse, but Mary's family were natives of Virginia as far as we know. If the Shafers lived in Pennsylvania, it must have been for a short time after entering the country and before going to Virginia. Two generations before Mary, they were in Virginia. The Shafers were German, but the Fraziers were from Scotland, not Ireland. Also, the reference to Levina and Lewis Christian living in Buchanan, Missouri, is not known to be correct. As far as we know they lived in the Darlington area, Gentry County, Missouri.

Children of BARBARA FRAZIER and THOMAS COPELAND are:

	i.		TERESA E.⁵ COPELAND.
	ii.		MARY SOPHRONIA COPELAND, b. December 15, 1838; d. January 11, 1921, Harrison Co; Iowa; m. JOHN S. GOSS, June 01, 1856, Loveland, Iowa; b. August 03, 1833, Whitehall, Greene County, IL; d. July 25, 1892, Harrison Co; Iowa.

More About MARY SOPHRONIA COPELAND:
Burial: Branson Cemetary, Pottawattamie; Iowa

Notes for JOHN S. GOSS:

GOSS - John S. GOSS, (retired), living at Missouri Valley, came to Pottawattamie County, in 1851, and located just over the line from Harrison County. Here he lived for twenty years and then moved to Missouri Valley, where he has made his home ever since. He was born August 3, 1833, at Whitehall, Greene County, IL. He is a son of Sherman and Elizabeth (WATTS) GOSS. The father came from Knoxville, Tennessee, and was of French-Irish extraction, while the mother was of Irish parentage, but reared in Statesville, NC. The family were very early settlers in Illinois, the father having been in the Blackhawk Indian War. He was a carpenter by trade, but after coming to Iowa, followed farming. The family consisted of six sons and two daughters, our subject being the second child. Four of the children are now living, our subject and H.W.A. GOSS, of Missouri Valley; Hugh W., of Council Bluffs, and J.C., who resides in California. Mortimer W., enlisted in 1862 in Company E., Twenty-third Iowa Infantry, and was killed in the battle of Anderson Hill, near Port Gibson, on the morning of May 1, 1863, and was buried where he fell.

The father died August 29, 1855, and is buried in Branson's Cemetery, near Loveland. The mother died April 24, 1881, and was buried beside her husband.

Our subject was married June 1, 1856, at Loveland, Iowa, to Mary S. COPELAND , who came with her parents from Putnam County, IN, to Pottawattamie County, in the autumn of 1852. Her father's name is Thomas Newton COPELAND, who still resides in Rockford Township, Pottawatamie County. In the COPELAND family there were nine children. Of the number, Mrs. GOSS has one brother living, three deceased, and three sisters living and one deceased.

Mr. GOSS enlisted as a soldier in the Union army, during the Civil War, on April 15, 1862, in Company H, Seventeenth Iowa Infantry, and was assigned to the Western Army. He was first sent to St. Louis, and from there to Corinth, Mississippi, but on account of ill health, was sent North, and discharged the following December, for disability.

After returning home from the army, Mr. GOSS was sick for many months, but finally got so he could labor about half the time. On August 13, 1867, he commenced to build a flat-boat, upon which to run lumber and wood down the Missouri River on to Omaha. He ran on the river until 1871, when he sold out and moved to Missouri Valley. In 1876, he sold out his furniture business. His has been a varied experience. In 1867 he went on the Upper Missouri as carpenter on steamer "Gen.Mead," and the fall of that year obtained his license as a first class pilot on steamboats from Omaha to Cow Island, Montana, also on the Yellowstone. Since then he has secured license as Master Pilot for the Mississippi River and tributaries, and has been on the rivers more or less ever since. Two years of the time running on boats for the Government between Sioux City and Kansas City.

Since living in Missouri Valley, he was engaged in the furniture and undertaking business, also was in the insurance business. He belongs to Beldon Post No. 59, Grand Army of the Republic, and is also a member of the Subordinate and Encampment Degrees of the Odd Fellows Order. He and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Missouri Valley, of which he is one of the Trustees, and was also Trustee of the Loveland Methodist Church, where he erected a church edifice in 1891.

Source: 1891 Harrison County Iowa History, pp. 855-856
Family Researcher: NA
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Harrison County Iowa Genealogy
Branson Cemetery
South of Missouri Valley, Iowa, and north of Honey Creek, Iowa..

GOSS, John S., Aug 3, 1833 � July 25, 1892, Co H, 17th IA Vol Inf.
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More About JOHN S. GOSS:
Burial: Branson Cemetary, Pottawattamie; Iowa

iii.

JOHN FLETCHER COPELAND.

More About JOHN FLETCHER COPELAND:
Cause of Death: died in infancy

	iv.		WILLIAM MEAD COPELAND.
	v.		TIRZAH COPELAND, m. JAY HUTCHINSON.
	vi.		HENRY CLAY COPELAND.
	vii.		HUGH COPELAND.
	viii.		MARTHA COPELAND.
	ix.		SARAH COPELAND, m. HENDERSON.

84. JAMES THOMAS⁴ FRAZIER (THOMAS N. FRAZIER³ JR., THOMAS SR.² FRAZIER, GEORGE THOMAS¹)^44,^45,⁴⁶ was born January 14, 1819 in Greenville, Greene Co; Tennessee, and died January 19, 1900 in Honey Creek, Pottawattamie Co; IA. He married MALINDA FULLER January 15, 1842 in Putnam Co; Indiana, daughter of JOHN FULLER and ESTHER. She was born August 15, 1819 in Indiana, and died January 10, 1864 in Pottawattamie Co; Iowa.

Notes for JAMES THOMAS FRAZIER:
Harrison County Iowa Genealogy
Branson Cemetery
South of Missouri Valley, Iowa, and north of Honey Creek, Iowa..

FRAZIER, James T., d. Jan 19, 1900, aged 81 y 5 d.
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Council Bluffs Nonpareil
Jan. 20, 1900
James T. Frazier of Honey Creek, an old man about 81 years of age, was instantly killed by the fast mail train on the Northwestern at Honey Creek yesterday afternoon.

Mr. Frazier was caught on the track by the train which goes through
Honey Creek at the rate of about forty miles an hour. The engine tossed him under the depot platform and when those who had witnessed the accident picked up the body life had already departed.

Mr. Frazier was standing on the track near the depot when the engine struck him. Being quite deaf and poor of eyesight it is probably that he did not hear or see the fast approaching train. He was just in the act of stepping from the track when the locomotive caught him and hurled him with awful force under the platform of the depot. Death must have been instantanous.

Coroner Treynor of this city was at once notified of the accident and will go to Honey Creek this morning to hold an inquest. Mr. Frazier has been in the habit of meeting every train and wandering around on the railroad tracks at Honey Creek day after day for years without having been hurt before. The train which he was finally unable to avoid, owing no doubt to his deafness, was the fast mail No. 15, which arrived in this city yesterday afternon at 2:30 o'clock. It is not probable that any of the trainmen or railroad company will be held responsible for the accident as it is claimed that Mr. Frazier got onto the track just a moment before the train struck him and as the fast mail rushes through Honey Creek at the rate of nearly forty miles an hour it was absolutely impossible to avoid the accident.

The funeral will be held from the residence of his son, Alfred Frazier, in Honey Creek Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, and the interment is to be in Branson Cemetery. Mr. Frazier came to this county from Indiana in 1854 and was one of the well-known pioneers in this part of the state.

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Logan Herald Observer January 25, 1900
James T. Frazier, a gentlemen nearly 80 years of age who has lived for a number of years at Honey Creek was struck by the Northwestern fast mail No. 15 last Friday and instantly killed. He was quite deaf and feeble, but was in the habit of going to the depot to see the trains come in and happened to be on the track just as the train reached that station and was struck and thrown under the platform having one arm and his head cut off. He was a much respected man and a relative of the Coffey and Copeland families of Logan.

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Logan Herald Observer February 1, 1900
James Thomas Frazier, who was killed by the C&NW fast mail train in Honey Creek, Iowa, Friday, was a native of Tennessee having been born near Greenville, Greene Co., Tennessee January 14, 1819. In the year 1830 he removed to Putnam Co., Indiana where he lived with his parents until 1842 at which time he married Malinda Fuller. In 1854, he came to Pottawattamie Co. and settled in Honey Creek where he resided since his wife died years ago. One step daughter and three grandchildren of his immediate family survive him. The deceased having yet living 5 sisters, the oldest being 88 and the youngest 68 years old. Three brothers are dead. The funeral took place Sunday January 21, the remains being interred in the Branson Cemetery.

The deceased was the maternal uncle of the Coffee brothers of Logan and Missouri Valley.

(James Frazier's wife Malinda Fuller died January 10, 1864 aged 44 Y. 4 M. 5 D.)

More About JAMES THOMAS FRAZIER:
Burial: January 21, 1900, Branson Cemetary, Pottawattamie; Iowa
Cause of Death: Struck by a train

Notes for MALINDA FULLER:
Harrison County Iowa Genealogy
Branson Cemetery
South of Missouri Valley, Iowa, and north of Honey Creek, Iowa..

FRAZIER, Malinda, wife of J.T., d. Jan 10, 1864, aged 44 y 4 m 26 d.
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More About MALINDA FULLER:
Burial: Branson Cemetary, Pottawattamie; Iowa

Children of JAMES FRAZIER and MALINDA FULLER are:

209.	i.		ALFRED S.⁵ FRAZIER, b. March 13, 1837, Indiana; d. October 24, 1902, Pottawattamie Co; Iowa.
	ii.		EMILY J. FRAZIER.

More About EMILY J. FRAZIER:
Burial: Branson Cemetary, Pottawattamie; Iowa

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