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Descendants of George Thomas Frazier

85. JOHN⁴ FRAZIER (THOMAS N. FRAZIER³ JR., THOMAS SR.² FRAZIER, GEORGE THOMAS¹)^47,⁴⁸ was born November 03, 1821 in Greene Co; Tennessee, and died May 26, 1881 in Harrison Co; Iowa. He married MINERVA CATHERINE HIBBS⁴⁹ December 03, 1844 in Greencastle, Putnam Co; Indiana, daughter of JOHN FRAZIER and ELIZABETH HIBBS. She was born February 04, 1826 in Green, Warren Co; KY, and died June 13, 1900 in Logan, Harrison Co; Iowa.

Notes for JOHN FRAZIER:
JOHN FRAZIER
1821-1881

John Frazier was born November 3, 1821 in Greene County, Tennessee (Lick Creek area) to Thomas Jr. and Mary Magdalene (Polly) Shaffer Frazier. When John was nine, the family moved to Putnam County, Indiana. Thomas Jr. made his first purchase of land in Putnam County November 26, 1831. He paid $100 for 80 acres. Thomas continued to purchase land in Putnam County until 1848.

December 3, 1844, John Frazier was married to Minerva Catherine Hibbs. John purchased 80 acres of land in Putnam County March 9, 1852 for $800. In May 1852, Thomas died. About two years later, we find the entire family with the
exception of one of John's sisters, coming to western Iowa. Their original destination was Pottawattamie County, and there some of the family remained including John's older sister Barbara, wife of Thomas Copeland, with whom the
mother, Mary Magdalene, then made her home...and on their lot she is buried in Branson Cemetery, near Loveland, Iowa.

John and his oldest brother, Champion; and two sisters, Malinda, Mrs. Wycliffe Copeland; and Elizabeth, Mrs. Reuben Coffey came to Harrison County. John made his first purchase of land in February of 1855 from Isaac W. Cox, 80 acres. ($1.25 and acre) John brought with him from Indiana $1,000, supposedly in gold or silver. The family settled at the foothills of the Boyer Valley about
three miles northeast of the present site of Missouri Valley. They moved into an abandoned cabin, believed to have been built by a Morman (as they moved west). John continued to add land, and the Harrison County History of 1891 states he owned 510 acres of Harrison County land at the time of his death.

John was rejected for service in the Civil War because of hemorrhoids. Years later cancer of the bowel was the cause of his death.

In 1866 John and Minerva built a frame house of the salt box type. By this time eight children had been born to them. The last child was born in the new house in 1866. Blanche Frazier Kakac took an excellent snapshot of it. Preston Niles copied this in an oil painting for Allene and Lucile Latta, who have the painting in their possession.
The house was occupied until the early 1900's. In 1875 John and Minerva granted to the public a plot of land for a
cemetery. John died May 26, 1881, and is buried in the Frazier Cemetery

On display at the Harrison County Historical Village, which is located on land adjoining the John Frazier farm, is the neck yoke which linked the ox yoke to the covered wagon which transported the John Fraziers to Iowa along with a horse hoe which he used to work the land
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Gravestone Records Copied by W. P. A. Graves Registration Project Harrison County, Iowa
Page: 48
Name: John Frazier
Birth Date: 03 Nov 1821
Death Date: 26 May 1881
Cemetery: Frazier
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77 77 John Frazier 34      M      0      M      0      1      Tenn      farmer
Minerva C. Frazier      29      F      0      M      0      1      Ky
George N. Frazier      9      M      0      0      0      1      Ia
Samuel Frazier            7      M      0      0      0      1      Ia
Mary Frazier            5      F      0      0      0      1      Ia
John F. Frazier            2      M      0      0      0      1      Ia

1856 Iowa State Census
Census Schedule of Magnolia Township, Harrison County, Iowa
http://www.rootsweb.com/~iaharris/census/1856_Census_Magnolia.htm

More About JOHN FRAZIER:
Burial: Frazier Cemetary; Harrison, Iowa

Notes for MINERVA CATHERINE HIBBS:
Minerva Frazier (from the Logan Observer June 21, 1900)

Died at the residence of her son S.L. Frazier in Logan, Iowa, June 19, 1900.
Minerva C. Frazier, age 73 years, 4 months, 15 days. Mrs. Frazier's maiden name
was Hibbs. She was born in Kentucky and married to John Frazier, a native of Tennessee on December 3, 1844.

She and her husband moved from Putnam County, Indiana to Pottawattamie County Iowa in October, 1854 and from there to Harrison County, Iowa.

Few today realize what the first settlers had to undergo. The women had their full share of hardships and privations. When Mr. Frazier died May 26, 1881 they owned 510 acres of Harrison County's choice land. Her life was one full of labor, but no doubt enjoyment too. The women too were pioneers, were heroic, and Mrs. Frazier was a representative pioneer wife and mother.

Mrs. Frazier was the mother of eight children, four of whom, with her husband, have gone before. The surviving children are G.N., S.L., Frazier, Mrs. McQuillen and Mrs. Sutter (Mary). She has been a consistent member of the Christian Church for the last 20 years.

The funeral was held today from the old homestead where forty five years ago
she and her husband started. The services were conducted by Rev. Sanders of Logan. The remains were interred in the Frazier Cemetery. Mrs. Frazier was the eldest of the family, and six sisters, Mrs. McIntosh, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Faith, Mrs. Cox, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Frazier, and a brother J.D. Frazier followed her remains to the final resting place.

Note: Minerva Catherine Hibbs was the daughter of Elizabeth Hibbs and step-daughter to John C. Frazier.

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Marriage Notes for JOHN FRAZIER and MINERVA HIBBS:


Children of JOHN FRAZIER and MINERVA HIBBS are:

210.	i.	GEORGE NELSON⁵ FRAZIER, b. March 13, 1847, Reelsville, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. December 22, 1917, Missouri Valley, Harrison Co; Iowa.
211.	ii.	SAMUEL LENOX FRAZIER, b. June 01, 1849, Reelsville, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. February 21, 1931, Logan, Harrison Co; Iowa.
	iii.	IDA E. FRAZIER, b. 1860; d. 1929; m. CHARLES H. ROGERS, July 15, 1880; b. November 07, 1857; d. 1886.
	iv.	MARY ELIZABETH FRAZIER, b. 1868; d. 1937; m. GEORGE SUTTER; b. 1864; d. 1917.
	v.	JACOB EDWARD FRAZIER.
	vi.	JOHN THOMAS FRAZIER, b. 1854; d. 1878.
	vii.	MARY FRANCES JOSEPHINE FRAZIER.
	viii.	ANDREW FILMORE FRAZIER, b. 1856; d. 1883.

86. MALINDA A.⁴ FRAZIER (THOMAS N. FRAZIER³ JR., THOMAS SR.² FRAZIER, GEORGE THOMAS¹)⁵⁰ was born April 02, 1824 in Greene Co; Tennessee, and died December 29, 1908. She married WICKLIFFE BAXTER COPELAND^51,^52,⁵³ February 12, 1845 in Putnam Co; Indiana, son of HUGH COPELAND and CHAROLETTE ALEXANDER. He was born January 08, 1823 in Jackson Co; Indiana, and died July 28, 1910 in Jefferson twp, Harrison Co; Iowa.

Notes for MALINDA A. FRAZIER:
Logan Observer, December 31, 1908
Pioneer Woman Called to Rest
Mrs. W. B. Copeland died at her home SW of Logan Tuesday evening December 29 after a long illness.

Malinda Frazier was born in Tennessee April 3, 1824, and was 84 years, 8 months and 26 days old at the time of her death. She was married to W. B. Copeland in Putnam County, Indiana, February 12, 1845, and came with him to Harrison County in 1853. They moved on the place where she died in 1855, having spent over a half century there.

Twelve years before the railroad came down the Boyer, Mr. & Mrs. Copeland took up their abode overlooking the
beautiful valley. Council Bluffs was the nearest trading post and it was then named Kanesville. Their frist residence
was a pole shanty erected by the Mormons and moved to this place for a temporary abode until Mr. Copeland should have time to build a log cabin.

Those were indeed pioneer days--not a neighbor for miles, not a telephone, telegraph or town within a day's journey scarcely, but here almost at the outskirts of civilization, this hardy, hopeful mother raised her family as best she might and looked forward to the dawn of better things than she was at that time accustomed to. She was the mother of 8 children: F.J., Mary J., Vincent S., Amanda J., O.P., Catherine S., Wm. T., and James H.

She had been a member of the church for many years. The funeral was held at the family home at 1 o'clock this
afternoon and the interment made in the Logan Cemetery.

More About MALINDA A. FRAZIER:
Religion: Baptist

Notes for WICKLIFFE BAXTER COPELAND:
Civil War Veterans of Harrison County
The following list is of Harrison County Civil War Veterans, and some
information on their status or their whereabouts in 1891.
TWENTY-NINTH IOWA INFANTRY, COMPANY C

Copeland, Wickliffe B Logan, Iowa
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Wickliffe B. COPELAND, takes rank among the early settlers of Harrison County. He came to St. John's in November, 1852, and remained there two years, and in February, 1855, removed to the site of his present (1891) home, having taken claim in the fall of 1852, and moved a small pole shanty to the place (which had been built by the Mormons) which he used until he could erect a log cabin, which had the primitive puncheon floor, and shakes for roofing. Their nearest post office and trading point was Kanesville (now Council Bluffs).
Mr. COPLEAND was born in Jackson County, Indiana, in January 1823. He is the son of Hugh and Charlotte (ALEXANDER) COPELAND. The father was a native of North Carolina, born in 1786, and died in Fremont County, Iowa aged about eighty-six years. Our subject's mother was a native of the South, and died in Fremont County, Iowa, in 1861.
When our subject was twenty years old, he commenced trying the realities of life for himself. He worked as a common laborer until he was married in 1845, to Malinda FRAZIER, a native of Tennessee, who was the daughter of Thomas and Mary (SHAFER) FRAZIER. Her father died in Indiana in 1851, and her mother in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, in 1870.
Mr. and Mrs. COPELAND are the parents of nine children -- F.J.; Mary J.; Vincent S.; Amanda J.; Oliver H.; Perry; Catherine S.; William T.; and James H. When Mr. COPELAND came from Indiana to Harrison County, he made the trip by ox-teams, and was a year on the road, for they stopped at Ottumwa, and also in Missouri. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church.
Source: 1891 History of Harrison County Iowa.
Copeland Family Researcher: NA.

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Obituary of Wickliffe Copeland Logan Observer, July 28, 1910
Wickliffe Copeland is Dead
Wickliffe Copeland died this morning at 11 o'clock after a long illness, age 87 years and 6 months.

He was born in Jackson County Indiana January 1823. He came to this county in November 1853, and located at St. John, near Missouri Valley. In 1855, he located on the farm where he died. The first residence was a pole shanty which had been built by the Mormons. His nearest trading post was Council Bluffs. He was married in 1845 to Malinda Frazier who died in December 1908. He was the father of 9 children: F.J., Mary J., Vincent S., Amanda J., Oliver H., Perry, Catherine S., Wm. T. and James H.

He was a member of Co. C 29th Iowa and as a comrade greatly loved by his fellow soldiers. He was of the hardy straight forward type of pioneer. His word when given was as good as anybody's bond. In his death, the county loses one of the oldest as well as one of its most respected citizens. Funeral arrangements have not been made.

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More About WICKLIFFE BAXTER COPELAND:
Religion: Baptist

Marriage Notes for MALINDA FRAZIER and WICKLIFFE COPELAND:

Children of MALINDA FRAZIER and WICKLIFFE COPELAND are:

212.	i.	FLAVIOUS JOSEPHUS⁵ COPELAND, b. October 24, 1847, Putnam Co; Indiana.
	ii.	MARY J. COPELAND.
213.	iii.	VINCENT S. COPELAND, b. February 23, 1850, Putnam Co; Indiana.
	iv.	AMANDA J. COPELAND.
214.	v.	OLIVER H. COPELAND, b. October 1859, Indiana.
	vi.	PERRY COPELAND.
	vii.	CATHERINE S. COPELAND, b. September 18, 1853, Harrison Co; Iowa; m. A. J. DAVIDSON, 1878.
	viii.	WILLIAM T. COPELAND.
215.	ix.	JAMES H. COPELAND, b. December 31, 1857, Harrison Co; Iowa.

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