Biographical Sketch of Franklin T. Frazier, Greene County, Missouri,
Boone Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Hon. Franklin T. Frazier (deceased).  Franklin Tennessee Frazier was 
the third child of Julian and Elizabeth Frazier who reared a family of
thirteen children.  He was born near Knoxville, Tennessee, March 15,
1810.  He grew to manhood upon his father's farm, and was educated in
Paris, Tenn.  He was married the first time to Maria J. Crawford, when
he was twenty-three years of age.  That union was blessed with five
children, viz.: George W., Thos. M., Wm. J., James M., and Samuel L.
His first wife died June 4, 1847, and he was married the second time,
April 26, 1848 to Miss Malcena Boone, daughter of Col. Nathan Boone, 
of this county.  By this marriage there are four children, viz.: Con-
stantine C., Nathan B., Laura J., and Franklin T.  Mr. Frazier was
elected to the State Senate in 1858, and was one of the ablest members 
of that body.  He met with the Legislature called by Gov. Jackson, at
Neosho, and voted in favor of the secession ordinance.  He was a member 
of Gov. Jackson's staff at the battle of Wilson's Creek, and then went
with the army to Arkansas, and lived at Fayetteville until 1863.  He
then went to Colin County, Texas and lived there until September, 1865.
He then returned to Missouri and lived in Saline County, until 1867,
and then returned to the farm he settled soon after coming to the State
and where his widow still lives.  He carried on farming upon a large
scale, and no man in the county stood higher in the regard of the 
people than he.  He was always an unswerving Democrat, never proved re-
creant to any trust committed to his care.  He died upon the old home-
stead, December 16, 1881, in his seventy-second year and was buried in
the family burying ground upon the home place by the Masonic fraternity
of which he was a member.

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