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From: "Alicia Havens" <>
Subject: [PALAWREN] FRAZIER/SMITH/DENNISON
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 11:17:14 -0700

I need help!!! I am trying to find the given names of two FRAZIER sisters,
one married William SMITH and one married James DENNISON. In a newspaper
article about my GGAunt, Jane Frazier Yeager, she refers to her uncles,
William SMITh and James DENNISON. I am not sure which newspaper it was
from, but Mr. Sewall at the Mercer Co., Historical Society sent it to a
cousin of mine. It reads as follows:

MRS. JANE YEAGER WILL CELEBRATE 97TH BIRTHDAY

Mrs. Jane Yeager, a native of Mercer, who now makes her home with her son,
S. M. Yeager, on the Volant-Leesburg road, will celebrate her 97th birthday
on July 20. Her father, Joseph Frazier, had a shoe shop in Mercer,
employing several journeymen and apprentices, when she was a girl. She
remembers the departure of her two uncles, William Smith and James Dennison,
for California in a covered wagon drawn by oxen and a trip which she took
with her father and family into Van Wert county, O. They, too, were headed
into the west, but returned when her father became ill.

Mrs. Yeager is a member of the United Brethern church and a Bible student.
She has been a widow for 26 years. She has had 10 children, eight of whom
are living. They are: Mrs. Tillie Holder, Farmer, Ky.; S. M. Yeager,
Volant, R. D.; Mrs. Sadie Dunlap, Jeanette; Mrs. J. Korn, Rochester; Mrs.
Mary Stuckey, Renfrew; Mrs. Lyda Eakin, Youngstown, O.; and John and William
Yeager, Rochester. A daughter, Mrs. Joseph Blank, died three years ago.
She also has 31 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren, and one
great-great-grandchild.

This article was written in 1936.

Jane's father, Joseph Frazier, was in the Mercer Borough census in 1840.
The census record is as follows:

1 male under 5
1 male 5 - 10
1 male 15 - 20
2 males 20 - 30
1 male 30 - 40

1 female under 5
1 female 5 - 10
2 females 20 - 30

>From other records we have surmised that Joseph was born abt 1810. That
would make him the male that was 30 - 40. Joseph was married at the time
and already had 3 children: Mary, b. 1834 (making her the female 5 - 10);
John M., b. Apr 1837 (making him the male under 5); and Jane, b. Jul 1839
(making her the female under 5). That leaves Joseph's wife, presumedly a
McCleery/McCleary/McCreary woman (we think her name is Mary or Elizabeth or
Christianna) as one of the females 20 - 30. So, we now have 2 males 20 -
30, 1 male 15 - 20, 1 female 20 - 30 left. We think that this is one of
Joseph's sister's family or maybe even an unknown brother.

Joseph Frazier and his wife are our Brickwall. I am writing this query out
of desperation. We have tried just about everything else we can think of to
break through. Any help with these people would be VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!
(Sorry that this is so long, but that is why we haven't resorted to this
before.)

Joseph lived in Muddycreek Twp.,Butler Co., PA in 1850, lived in Rochester
Twp., Beaver Co., PA in 1860 and he was in Big Beaver Twp., Lawrence Co. in
1870. He was in Lawrence Co. in 1880 and died in Wampum in 1885.

Alicia Moon-Havens

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