Frazier-Ogden Families: Franklin Parish, La. Submitted by: DeWanna Robinson Lindo April 2001 Source: Franklin Parish Library Clipping Authors name missing. ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm **********************************************   FRAZIER-OGDEN FAMILIES Aristocrats in the finest tradition of the antebellum South the Frazier family came to Boeuf Prairie in 1858. William Lindsay Frazier purchased extensive holdings in the Extension and Liddieville communities for the family, which included a venerable half-brother William Ogden, for whom Ogden High school is named. Descendants of one of Scotland's most ancient and noble clans, the Fraziers owned throngs of slaves on plantations around their native Woodville, Mississipppi. One property description alone list more than 90 slaves by name. Today, but a few descandents and close realitives survive. Miss Mary (Lady) Frazier of Winnsboro alone bears the proud name. A sister, Mrs I.Q. Robinson also survive. Another sister, Mrs. Dr. Fred Robinson died recently. Their only brother, William, passed away several years ago in the family homestead at Extension, survived by one daughter, Mrs. Lillian Trisler. Realitives include the Bonner and Ogden families. The Fraziers came to Boeuf Prairie seeking cheap, rich cotton land and a new start. A tragedy had almost extermenated the family before leaving Woodville. Angry over having lost a legal action concerning family property, step-children ambushed the Fraziers while returning from church. Few Survived. William Lindsay lost an arm. Planters conceived the idea of transporting their slaves to Texas. he placed his young son George just 13 years old in charge of the family slaves and saw him off with a large party, westward bound. The slaves were hired out as day laborers in relatively quiet Texas. "Grandfather wore a big pistol and took along gold coin. The Texans would only consider gold as a medium of exchange," Mrs. Lillian Trisler said while recalling the family story. All of George's and his fathers efforts were in vain. They lost more than their slaves in the end. The Frazier star had its decline. William Lindsay was accidentally killed while trying to load his muzzle-loading shot gun with the one arm surviving the ambush of prior years. George Frazier saw his way of life dissapear. Carpetbaggers seized the reigns of local government with the illiterate negro vote. Jay-hawkers and white trash, called "Scalawags," plundered, murdered and stole. Taxes were raised unbearably high. His half brother, William Ogden, unable to cope with the new era lost his vast holdings, tract by tract, acre by acre. Last male in direct line was William, son of George, and father of Mrs. Trisler. Howard Ogden, son of William Ogden, died in 1945, his children ultamately leaving the community of Liddieville, named for the daughter of William "Bill" Ogden. A way of life died with the Frzier clan, a family that helped make the old South a living legend for all time..."the land of cotton, magnolias, singing, darkies and true-life princes of soil." They have truely, "Gone With the Wind."