Tazewell County IL Archives Obituaries.....Frazee, Almeda May 3, 1920
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The Green Valley Banner Thursday, May 13, 1920 
Miss Almeda Frazee Is Dead  

  Miss Almeda Frazee was called from our midst early Monday evening, May 3, 
1920, after an illness of three weeks.  She lived next door to her two nieces, 
Misses Lillian and Minnie Frazee, who were devoted to her, and carefully 
watched over her in her declining years. She lived close to her Master, was a 
friend to all and will be missed by a large circle of old friends and neighbors.
  Almeda Frazee, a daughter of Jonathan and Caroline Frazee, was born at 
Warrenville, near Plainfield, New Jersey, December seventh, eighteen hundred 
and thirty-seven; and passed away at her home in Green Valley, Illinois, May 
Third, Nineteen-Hundred and Twenty.
  Her parents, her two brothers and one sister, have all preceded her to the 
Better World. Those nearest and dearest, who are left to mourn and miss her, 
are her nieces, Mrs. Carrie Leeds, Misses Lillian and Minnie Frazee, and her 
three nephews, Charles and Walter Frazee, of Green Valley, and John Brokaw, of 
Texas.
  In eighteen hundred and fifty-one Jonathan Frazee and his family moved from 
New Jersey to Illinois, stopping first at Jacksonville, and coming later to 
Tazewell County, where he established what is still known as the “Old” Frazee 
homestead, situated two miles southeast of Green Valley. Here, Almeda, or “Aunt 
Mead,” as she was is familiarly known and lovingly called by all who knew her, 
spent the greater part of her life, toiling for those she loved, giving her 
best years in care and devotion to her aging parents and invalid mother.
  All through the years of her long and useful life, she has been blessed with 
an active mind and a perfect memory, and for nearly three score and ten years 
has been useful and influential citizen of this locality.  She never forgot, 
nor ever wearied of relating the thrilling incidents of the long journey when 
they came over the mountains in the big prairie schooner, traveling “overland” 
to Illinois, and delighted in telling of the wonderful “new country” they found 
full of the interesting hardships, trials and triumphs of pioneer days. Aunt 
Mead was a true pioneer, and has watched this country develop from a wilderness 
of unbroken prairie to its present system and her recollections of early days 
and the transformation that have occurred, sound to those of younger 
generations almost like fairy tales. Her life history would make an interesting 
volume; this brief sketch cannot do it justice.
  “Aunt Mead’s” characteristics and personality have always been of the highest 
order. Unostentations; believing only in the universal law of God’s right and 
justice, she has lived the pure, simple life of the highest type of 
Christianity. Earnest and sincere in every thought and action, her great hope, 
energy and aspiration has been to make the world better. It has always been her 
great pleasure to give freely to any good and deserving enterprise; no one ever 
begged in vain, nor was turned away from her door disappointed.
  For a number of years her chief delight has been to gather her loved ones 
about her at Christmas time and bestow loving remembrances and genial 
hospitality with a lavish hand.
  She united with the Methodist church many years ago and has often remarked 
that she could not remember the time when she did not believe and find comfort 
in prayer and the Bible. She not only professed but led the true Christian 
life. What more can be said?
  Aunt Mead moved to Green Valley about eight years ago. For some time it has 
been noticeable that her health was gradually failing, but, through it all she 
has been patient, sweet and cheerful, and while not really suffering pain, she 
has fully realized her condition and that the end of her earthly journey was 
steadily drawing near. On her last visit to the farm home, she looked long and 
lovingly at the old homestead that had sheltered her so many years and, turning 
gently away from the picture of other days, softly repeated the words of Alice 
Cary’s beautiful hymn


Additional Comments:
Almeda Frazee was born in Warrenville, Somerset Co., NJ. Buried in the Green 
Valley Cemetery, Tazewell Co., IL.
The obit was in the Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical Society news 
letter.

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