OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - BIOS: FRAKES, Harvey (published 1889)
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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL SOUVENIR
For the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings,
Scott and Washington, Indiana
Chicago Printing Co., 1889

        HARVEY FRAKES was born in this county January 27, 1824, and is a
son of Conrad and Margaret (Prestland) Frakes, natives of Indiana and
Kentucky respectively; the former died here in 1836, and his widow in 1863.
Harvey Frakes, whose name stands at the head of this sketch, was the
youngest of nine children born to his parents. His early life was spent on
the farm, and he attended the schools of the neighborhood. At the age of
fourteen he was apprenticed to John Frakes, his elder brother, to learn the
cooper's trade. He served out his time and followed the business, together
with farming, until reaching manhood, when on the 23d of August, 1849, he
was married to Miss Ella Lemmon, a daughter of Elias and Mary (Fando)
Lemmon, the former an Indian and the latter a Kentuckian. Elias Lemmon
followed flatboating a good deal, and in December, 1847, he fell from a
flatboat below Baton Rouge, La., and was drowned. His widow died in April,
1863. In December, 1861, Harvey Frakes enlisted in Co. K, Fifty-ninth
Volunteer Infantry. He veteranized in 1863, and served until the close of
the war, being discharged July 17, 1865. He then returned home and resumed
farming. Mr. and Mrs. Frakes have had ten children, as follows: Mary S.,
Martha E., Sarah C., Emma L., Ralph E., Anna B., Ola M., Ada L., Sue K. and
Otto M., all of whom are living.




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