John D. Frazer, Beauregard Parish Louisiana 
Submitted by Mike Miller 
Date: September 24, 2006


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John D Frazer
October 4, 1872 

Author: Henry E Chambers

John David Frazar, M. D., is a highly qualified physician and surgeon, 
favorably known for his professional work throughout Beauregard Parish, but for 
the past five years has been even better known and has given practically all 
his attention to his duties as sheriff of the parish.  He is a member of one of 
the oldest families in this part of Louisiana, and has one of the best records 
of any sheriff in the state.

Doctor Frazar was born at Merryville, Louisiana, October 4, 1872.  His father, 
Alexander Frazar, who was born in 1840 in Hancock County, Mississippi, came to 
Louisiana in 1853, and three years later was one of the soldiers of the state 
who entered the Confederate Army.  After the Mississippi River was blockaded by 
the Federal gunboats, he was one of two men detailed to build a military road 
from Nebletts Bluff to Sugartown.  After the war he was engaged in logging, 
farming and stock raising, and died in 1885.  He married Susan McMahon, who 
died in 1900.

John David Frazar was three years old when his father died, and soon afterwards 
his mother removed to Newton, Texas. where the family remained until and then 
returned to De Ridder, Louisiana.  Doctor Frazar therefore acquired his 
education in e Public schools at Newton Texas, and after leaving school, worked 
as clerk in a grocery store.  Subsequently he entered the Memphis Hospital 
Medical College and was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1911.

Doctor Frazar began his professional practice in De Ridder in 1911.  When 
Beauregard Parish was created in 1912, he was made the first coroner, and held 
that office until 1920.  When America entered the World war he became the 
medical member of the local draft board, and had previously held a commission 
as first lieutenant in the Louisiana National Guard.  In May, 1918, he was 
commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, and was at Camp 
Greenleaf at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and later at Camp McArthur at Waco, 
Texas, remaining on duty there until his discharge in March, 1919.  Doctor 
Frazar then resumed his medical practice at- De Ridder, and continued active in 
the work of his profession until he became sheriff.  He is a member of the 
Parish and State Medical Societies, and the American Legion, and in Masonry is 
affiliated with De Ridder Lodge No. 271, Free and Accepted Masons and Hines 
Chapter No. 34 Royal Arch Masons.  He has always been active in local politics 
and is a member of the Methodist Church.

Doctor Frazar was elected sheriff of Beauregard Parish in 1920, and in 1924 was 
reelected, an honor well merited in view of his splendid official performance.  
Sheriff Frazar married at De Ridder in May, 1918, Miss Ruth Morrison.  She is a 
member of the American Legion auxiliary and is identified with the Methodist 
Episcopal Church.  Doctor and Mrs. Frazar have one son, John David, Jr.


Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 7, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by The 
American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.