Bio: William W. Frazier, Desoto Parish La.
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, The
Southern Publishing Company, Nashville & Chicago, 1890
Submitted by: Gaytha Thompson


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William W. Frazier has long been worthily identified with the farming
interests of this parish, and no history of this section would he complete
without mention of his career.   Originally from Gadsden County, Fla., his
birth occurred there in 1829, but when a child be was taken by his parents,
Prof. Andrew and Malinda (Daniel) Frazier, to Georgia, where the parents     
spent the rest of their lives, the former having been born in Scotland and the
latter in Florida,  Prof. Frazier was an able educator, and was an officer in
the Seminole War, his death occurring prior to the Rebellion, his wife, who
was an earnest member of the Methodist Church, dying in 1878.  Her father,
John Daniel died in Florida, having been a farmer. 

William Frazier was the youngest of two sons and two daughters, a brother,
John E., dying in the Mexican War  After receiving fair advantages for
acquiring an education and becoming thoroughly familiar with farm duties,
he, at the early age of twelve years, began farming for himself, and in
1862 became a member of Company D, Forty-sixth Georgia Infantry, nearly
the first year of his service being spent at Charleston, S. C., as a guard,
after which he was in the Tennessee Army end fought at Chickamauga, Missionary
Ridge. the Georgia campaign, Franklin and Nashville, after which  he
surrendered with Johnston in North Carolina.  He was captured at Yazoo
City in July, 1863, and was held a prisoner about two weeks, after which he
was paroled.  

In 1862 his marriage was celebrated, his wife being Miss Christian Austin, a
daughter of Augustus and Sarah (Taylor) Austin, the former born in Georgia in
1808, and the latter in South Carolina in 1812, their marriage occurring in
the former State, and with the exception of a two years' residence in Alabama,
that State has always been their home. Mr. Austin was a farmer, and died 
November, 1860, his wife dying, in January, 1858,   Mrs. Frazier was born in
Georgia, and her union with Mr. Frazier has resulted in the birth of six
children, four sons living.  

In 1866 they came to Do Soto Parish, La., and here now have an excellent farm
of 487 acres, 200 being cleared, and on which are erected good buildings.  He
is president of the Union Grove Union of the Farmers Alliance, and is the only
one of his family that resides in Louisiana, one sister being a resident of
Alabama, and the remainder of the family in Georgia.  

Mrs. Frazier belongs to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.