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Below is a family biography included in The History of Jasper County, Missouri published by Mills & Company in 1883. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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GEORGE W. FRAZIER, post-office Maple Grove, farmer and stock-raiser. Our subject’s parents, Jacob and Rebecca Frazier, were natives of Connecticut, and were very early settlers of Ohio. They had sixteen children, the subject of this sketch being the fifteenth child, and was born in Ross county, Ohio, May 11, 1834, and was reared and educated in Ohio. His parents died before he was four years old, and he lived with his uncle until sixteen years of age, and then worked out. In 1855 he went to Logan county, Illinois, and was married to Sadonia Young, Nov. 24, 1840, daughter of A. W. Young, a music teacher. In 1862 his country called, and Mr. Frazier enlisted in Company B, Eighty-seventh Illinois Infantry, and served three long years in the Western army. Was honorably discharged the 3d of July, 1865, and returned to McLean county, Ill., farming until 1870; then came to Jasper county, Mo., and located on his present farm of eighty acres, well improved. He has five children: Thomas, William B., Charles F., Laura B., and Murton H.
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