Fraziers in the Early Mormon Missionaries data base.

Ivy Mae Frazier White

Salt Lake City Cemetery

"Gone To Her Glorious Reward"

Amy at the Ancestor Files blog announced the new Early Mormon Missionaries data base here early in February. I decided to follow suite and began looking up my ancestors. The first family name I entered “Frazier” was most fruitful and dispelled a family MYTH.

Great Grandfather Stephen Vestal Frazier was the probate judge in Woodruff, Rich County, Utah from 1888 to 1893. He came through those years purportedly declaring that neither he nor any of his children would ever join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

His youngest son, Frank Union, my grandfather, honored his father’s wishes and did not join the Church during his lifetime. I was pleased to learn that three of Stephen Vestal’s  oldest grandchildren (he had fourteen children) served as early missionaries and are listed on the database.

1 – Ivy May Frazier, born July 12, 1897 to Walter J. and Fannie Rose Frazier served her mission to the Sandwich Islands from June 8, 1920 to August 18, 1921.

2 – Charles C. and Mary Ellen Frazier Dean sent two of their sons on missions. Charles Vestal, born March 23, 1884 in Woodruff, Utah served in Great Britain from May 29, 1906 to October 3, 1908. David Leroy was born February 4, 1889 in Woodruff also and served in the Western States in Colorado from June 18, 1912, to September 1, 1914.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1850-1959, Vol. 3, p. 238, line 392.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol, 4, p. 132, line 260.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 5, p. 29, line 401.

Early Family Dugouts.

I hiked up Pioneer Village Main Street on Monday to have a look at the dugout at the top of the hill.  The Ashby Dugout is on the northern edge of the This is the Place Pioneer Village and is representative of the many dugouts pioneers built following their arrival into the Utah Territory.

In the spring of 1864 my great great GrandfatherSamuel Brough built a dugout in the Porterville, Utah hillside for his family. Writing of that family, my mother, Helen Rex, wrote,

“On 15 Aug 1863 they started across the plains in the Samuel D. White Company. Snow had fallen before they reached Salt Lake City on 15 Oct 1863. It was cold and miserable. They lived in Bountiful, Utah the first winter and in the spring, moved to Porterville, Utah in Morgan County. There they lived in a dugout in the hillside. It was lined with adobes, and there was a fireplace in one end. In the spring when the snow started to melt, the frost came out of the ground and the water washed down the chimney and part of the wall caved in.”  [1]

My husband’s ancestors lived in a dugout when they moved to Paradise, Utah. 

Sarah Jane Smith Sanborn was born in Iowa in 1856 while her parents were in route to Utah.  Upon arrival they lived in Draper for two years before moving to Paradise, Utah where their first home was a dugout.  In 1935 Sarah Jane recorded, recalling that early home,

“The pioneer living in dugout were obliged to keep a fire in the fireplace all night or the wolves would come right down the chimneys. They could be heard on the roof howling and scratching trying to get into the dugouts. They would keep a fire all night so the smoke going up would keep the wolves from coming down the chimneys.”  [2]

This dugout in the side of the Stephen Vestal Frazier Ranch hillside in Woodruff, Utah may have been lived in during its earliest years. In the late 1870’s when the Fraziers moved onto their homestead land they would have needed shelter while great Grandfather Stephen Vestal built his “long log home.” I’ve yet to find an account to substantiate my speculation.

In the late 1940’s while our family visited and lived on the ranch the dugout housed large farm equipment and potatoes. It was reported that in the early years of life on the ranch that dugout housed a large enough cache of ice blocks cut from the Woodruff Creek during the winter months to stock the family’s summer long refrigerator needs. And they churned home made ice cream for every birthday celebration.

1. The History of the Broughs of Staffordshire, England, and their English, American and Australian Descendants, compiled by Robert Clayton Brough, Catharine Ann Brough Hind, Richard Brough Family Organization, 2004, “History of Samuel Brough and Elizabeth Bott,” pages 117-122. Histories on file at the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah written by daughters MarJean Thomson, Randolph Utah; Vendla K. Roberts, Ogden, Utah, Jan 1986; and Mary McKinnon Crompton, great granddaughter, November 1970. And Helen Rex Frazier family records.

2. Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Sarah Jane Smith Sanborn, a Utah Pioneer of 1856 by Da. Fla Barton Nov 1936, Camp 25 Salt Lake County.

July 4th Woodruff, Utah ancestors' observance.

Albert Orlando Frazier was Stephen Vestal Frazier’s thirteenth child. He was three years older than my own grandfather, Frank UnionFrazier, who was born August 3, 1884.

Albert Orlando wrote:

“Father built a long log house on his homestead and reared his family. My father held the first 4^th of July celebration on the ranch. I was a very small boy at that time and in commeration [sic] of the day of independence the stars and stripes waved in the breeze in the large hill close to the ranch. Father had just finished some large cattle sheds which were used for a bowery to help keep cool and an ice stand for we little ones. I can remember that day very well and loved to listen to the brass band playing during the program."

“Patriotism was a deep seated characteristic of the people. The 4^th of July was a tradition of older citizens. First raising of the Stars and Stripes, next a parade led by brass band led by W. K. Walton family they contributed so much music and dramatics. Afternoon spent in old Bowery where lemonade was served from large wooden Barrels. Baseball main sport and a few saddle horses races to top off the day, with a big dance at night. “

The long log house Stephen Vestal Frazier first built on his Woodruff, Utah land later became his blacksmith shop which I well remember roaming through. At that time it smelled of old—fire, wood, metal, and dirt. It is pictured beneath the tree to the left in the picture below (about 1990).

Twenty-five years ago my two youngest children and I climbed to the top of the hill across the roadway from Stephen Vestal Frazier's Woodruff, Utah ranch. In the picture beneath we were standing about where my great grandfather would have unfurled his American flag on those early 4th of July mornings.

Note: These two paragraphs were preserved by A. O. Frazier's daughter, who gave a copy to my father, Glenn Frazier. The second paragraph sounds like he was recalling the celebrations later held in Woodruff township proper. The picture of the Walton family band is from the First 100 Years in Woodruff green history book.

Memorial Day, May 27, 2013. Randolph, Utah family gathering.

 Randolph, Rich County, Utah marker, south of Randolph.

 Randolph Cemetery tops the hill west of Randolph overlooking the town. Its where the wind always blows.

The William and Mary Brough Rex headstone has been repaired, stabilized, and now sits atop a cement base. Their six children's footstones are set beside them. All of their children are named here. 

My brother Rex stands beside the gravestone here. He and I and our spouses traveled to Randolph and Woodruff for Memorial Day. I don't recall being in Randolph on Memorial Day since prior to our parents' passing in 1982 and 1992. We had a wonderful day gathering with other Rex cousins on cemetery hill and in Cousin Flora Lee's Randolph home. A big thank you to her and her sister Nancy for all of their work promoting and accomplishing this Rex Gravestone Repair project. Thank you so very much!

The Brough Family Organization also completed (August 17, 2012) this Samuel Brough gravestone project in the Randolph Cemetery in time for Memorial Day.

First thing that morning we stopped in Woodruff, ten miles to the south, to visit the cemetery there and to drive past our Grandfather and Great Grandfather Frazier's Ranch.

My brother and I, our father, and Grandfather Frazier each attended the Woodruff Schoolhouse that stood across the highway from this sign posted in "downtown" Woodruff.

Rex and I, with our spouses, in the Woodruff Cemetery beside the Frazier/Walton

row of headstones. Note Samantha Ann Walton Witherell's broken headstone. 

A project we hope to complete before winter 2013.

Samanthy Ann Walton Caldwell Witherell, 1863.

Continued from here.

Samanthy Ann Walton Caldwell Witherell

1834, Mexico, Maine - 1919 Woodruff, Utah

Joseph Smith III from Wikipedia

The Semiannual Conference convened in North Star branch, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, October 6, 1863. Joseph Smith presided, Alphonso Young and Edward W. Knapp were clerks. The following-named elders reported: Joseph Smith, E. C. Briggs (by letter), Hugh Lytle, Colby Downs, Eli Clothier, Wheeler Baldwin, W. A. Litz, J. A. McIntosh, William Redfield, Alphonso Young, D. M. Gamet, George Morey, Nathan Lindsey, Frank Reynolds, E. Page, George Medlock, Lehi Ellison, George Sweet, John Jamison, D. H. Bays, and W. W. Blair. 

“On the 7^th Barton Parker and S. W. Condit reported. The following branch reports were presented: Plum Creek, Camp Creek, Fremont, Union, Little River, Glenwood, Nephi, North Star, Galland’s Grove, Bigler’s Grove, Omaha, Farm Creek, Raglan, Crescent City, Onawa, Council Bluggs, Boyer, Boomer, Weeping Water, Wheeler’s Grove, Little Sioux.

Elder D. H. Bays baptized Elizabeth Frazier, Sumantha A. Coldwell, Benjamin E. Ballowe, and J. F. Speight. On the 8th Elder Colby Downs baptized Ellen Chadburn, William Traver, David Wilding, Emily Smith, William Bowers, and Jacob Stoker.

Elijah B. Gaylord, Uriah Roundy, James Newberry, John Smith, and John Outhouse were ordained high priests, by Joseph Smith and W. W. Blair.

The following resolutions were adopted:-

“Resolved, that the counties of Shelby, Crawford, Audubon, Guthrie, Dallis, Polk, and Sac, be under the presidency of J. A. McIntosh; Mills, Fremont, Page, and Taylor counties, under Wheeler Baldwin; Decatur and vicinity, under George Morey; Central Nebraska, under George Hatt; South Nebraska, under Elders A. Young and William A. Litz; Harrison and Monona counties, under Silas W. Condit; Pottawattamie and Cass counties, under Hugh Lytle.

 "Resolved, that this conference authorize the committee of publication to publish the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, with such corrections in arrangement as may be necessary."

-True Latter Day Saints' Herald, vol. 4, p. 122. 

Anna's cemetery headstone late summer 2011.

Looking North along the Frazier/Walton row in the Woodruff, Utah Cemetery, 2011. Samanthy Ann's broken headstone is in the foreground.

Stephen Vestal Frazier's vacant Rock Home on the old Frazier Ranch. 

Consider this a call to Walton/Frazier family members to support Samanthy Ann's headstone repair. Last summer I received a couple of bids and it will be $400 to have the stone up-righted, repaired, and re-attached to the base. You can contact me at the e-mail on this blog for donation mailing instructions.

Stephen K. Frazier May 18, 1945 - December 29, 2010

We lost Frazier cousin Stephen K. Frazier last week. His sister called him a maverick today at his funeral. A great grandson of Stephen Vestal Frazier, he came by it naturally. I offer my heart-felt condolences to his loved ones. Steve will surely be missed.

Frazier Family Dinner at the Rock House in Woodruff, Utah prior to 1918.

This Stephen Vestal Frazier family picture was probably taken in the dining room at the rock house at the Frazier Ranch in Woodruff, Utah. That would be Stephen Vestal in the arm chair in front, and his wife Elizabeth Walton Frazier facing him from across the table. The woman behind the right side of Stephen's arm chair looks like his daughter Maude Frazier Eastman. I can't tell who the others are, but you can see an earlier labeled picture of them here. Elizabeth was 78 years old when she died in 1918. Stephen lived until 1923.

Thank you to Susan Walton descendant, Marla, for this lovely picture of Susan Peabody Walton Virgin Walton Houghton . Susan is mother to Elizabeth Walton Frazier, in the top picture. More on Susan's family can be found here.

Susan Walton's daughters, Elizabeth and Hester Ann, married Frazier cousins. Part 9.

Elizabeth Walton and Stephen Vestal Frazier

On the occasion of their wedding.

(Continued from here.)

My parents could never find a definitive place for Stephen Vestal and Elizabeth's wedding. It was listed in 1860 in Henry County, Iowa, or Lawrence, Kansas. Recently I found them in

Marriage Records of Jackson County, Missouri

1827-1860

Volume 1

Name: Stephen V. Frazier

Location: Shawnee, Kansas

Spouse: Lizzie Walton

Marriage Date: 01 Mar 1860

History of Stephen Vestal and Elizabeth Walton Frazier.

Part 1.

Part 2.

Records of Hester Ann and Elizabeth Frazier joining the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1862 and 1863, respectively, can be found in Part 2 of the history of Stephen Vestal and Elizabeth Walton Frazier, linked above.

Hester Ann Walton
b. June 14, 1837, Mexico, Oxford, Maine
p. Samuel Walton and Susan Walton
m. Asa Frazier of Henry County, Iowa.
Hester Ann wasn’t yet a teenager, when the Walton family caravan left Mexico, Maine in 1845.
In the 1856 census she was living in Pleasant Ridge, Lee County, Iowa near her mother and siblings. Hester Ann and a child were boarding with David and Mary Barnes.
Asa fought in the Civil War as a private in the 25th Iowa Infantry, Company G. It was organized at Mount Pleasant, Iowa and mustered in September 27, 1862. They fought in the Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4.
Listed in a report by Iowa Adjutant General of Casualties among enlisted Men is Asa Frazier. He died at Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 25, 1863 of inflammation of the stomach.

In the 1870 census [H]Ester Frazier, with a child Benson F. Frazier, was living with Catharine Glesser, in the Lawrence Ward 3, Douglas, Kansas. Her mother, Susan Houghton, and Stephen Vestal and Elizabeth Walton Frazier and family, were living in Lawrence Ward 4, Douglas, Kansas. According to NFS, Hester died in 1872. I've yet to find a source, or her child.

(To be continued.)

Marriage Records of Jackson County, Missouri. 977.841 V25j or FHL microfilm #1,421,672, item 12. Picture of the Fraziers on their wedding day copied from a daguerreotype tin picture in family collection. Early Reorganization Minutes, 1852-1871, Book A. pp. 133, 190. Report by Iowa Adjutant Generals office, Hon. William S. Stone Governor of the State of Iowa, Approved Mar 30, 1866, January 1, 1867, Vol. II, Des Moines F. W. Palmer, State Printer, 1867. Iowa 25th Infantry marker at Vicksburg Military Park from Wikipedia.

Stephen Vestal and Elizabeth Walton Frazier, part 2 of 2

Stephen Vestal Frazier

Rich County, Utah, Probate Judge

1888-1893

In 1872 the Woodruff community cooperatively erected a meeting-house for both worship and school. As the community grew, a proposal was made to construct a new building. Like the original, the new public building was to be used as both a church and school. The settlers in Woodruff subscribed twelve hundred dollars in 1884 for the new building’s construction. After its completion, a squabble developed between the LDS bishopric and the school board over ownership of the property.

According to the Woodruff ward history, in 1884 the school board was composed of “one LDS, one gentile Liberal and one Mormon Liberal.” The two “Liberals” claimed that because the building had been used as a school and constructed under that pretense, it was a school, and therefore rightfully belonged to the district. Many Mormons in Woodruff disagreed and sued the school district in federal court. In 1890 Judge Henderson of the First district Court at Ogden, Utah, ruled in favor of the school district, and the meeting house became its property.

County courts, being under the direction of a probate judge, became a source of considerable strife within territorial Utah after passage of the Edmunds-tucker act of 1887. That act took the probate court out of the hands of the territorial assembly and made it a position appointed by the federal government. Consequently, virtually all probate judges within Utah from 1888 to statehood were non-Mormon.

In Rich County, two non-Mormon probate judges served during this time period—Stephen V. Frazier [1888-1893] and J. M. Grant [1894-1895]. Both however, fulfilled the duties of their office with little conflict. Only the conflict which developed over ownership of the public school/church in Woodruff damped the relationship between Judge Frazier and the Mormon population of the county.

At one point a community leader allegedly told Stephen Vestal he should leave town. Family legend states he determined he’d never leave Woodruff, and he built his rock house as a monument of how long he planned on staying. And declared neither he, nor his children would ever join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He never did, nor did most of his children. Many of their descendants have.

When Thomas J. Tingey’s barns burned, Stephen was there and helped save the horses. He organized men to go into timbers to get logs to build another barn. He used three of his own teams to accomplish the work. He was a patient man, set in his ways, quite a philosopher and believed in cause and effect, and that everything would turn out in the end. He had influence over his family, and his discipline was wonderful. Stephen built the rock bridge over the Woodruff Creek in town, known as Gene’s Creek.

Elizabeth took grandson, John Arthur Dean, as a chore hand during the summers. She kept him busy carrying water from the spring, feeding pet lambs, feeding chickens, ducks and geese. Elizabeth plucked feathers off the geese and made feather bed ticks and pillows. One of Grandson John Arthur Dean’s jobs was to hitch old Kate, her favorite mare, to the buggy. She would go visiting her old friends. Take a dressed chicken, a leg of mutton, a pie or cake, come currants or gooseberries to them. The old folks she visited were Uncle Arthur and Eliza Putnam, Elizabeth Huffaker, William and Elizabeth Neville. John Cox and Annie Neville Cox and her mother, old lady Stiff, Betsy Eastman and her brother Benjamin Walton.

Elizabeth took her mother, Granny [Susan] Walton, into her home and cared for her until she died at 92 years. And she took her widowed sister, Ann Witheral into her home for years. When Elizabeth was unable to care for herself she lived with her daughter Maude Frazier Eastman in Evanston, Wyoming until her death on August 6, 1918. She was 78 years old. Stephen Vestal lived beyond his wife Elizabeth. He died August 12, 1923, in Evanston, Wyoming, at the age of 84, at Elmer Eastman’s residence.

[Editor’s note: Thanks to Amy’s suggestion yesterday, I visited the Church History Library in Salt Lake City this morning. I found Elizabeth in Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints, compiled by Susan Easton Black, 1993, vol.2, page 833. I was thrilled! There are numerous things this will help me with.]

Frazier (Frazer), Elizabeth
Birth: 14 June 1841, Oxford County Maine
Elizabeth Frazier was baptized a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on 7 October 1863 by D. H. Bays. She was confirmed by J. A. McIntosh and Geo. Morey.
Source: Early Reorganization Minutes, 1852-1871, Book A, pp. 160, 430

Listed beneath her is Frazier (Frazer), Hester Ann
[Elizabeth has an older sister, Hester Ann Walton.]
Birth: 20 December 1838, Maine
Hester Ann Frazier was baptized and confirmed a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on 29 April 1862 at Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, by Shippy.
Source: Early Reorganization Minutes, 1852-1871, Book A, pp. 133, 190.

Elder Perry Green Sessions (I’m smiling). I’ll never admit to how many different times I’ve searched for Brother Perry Green Sessions. Perrigrine Sessions.

Part 1

Links of Walton History by Hattie Walton Heninger, Compiler, Genealogist, 1981, pgs. 45, 49. The First 100 Years in Woodruff, Printed by Art City Publishing Co., 1972, pgs. 271-275. A History of Rich County, by Robert E. Parson, 1996, Rich County, Utah State Historical Society, pgs. 220-221, 282-283, 314. A Brief Historical and Genealogical Account of the Frazier Family by Isabelle Frazier Sugden, a copy in my possession.

Stephen Vestal and Elizabeth Walton Frazier, 1 of 2 parts

Stephen Vestal Frazier
b. 18 Feb 1839, Salem, Henry County, Iowa.
p. Thomas Frazier, Ruth McCraken
m. 1 Mar 1860,
wife: Elizabeth Walton
d. 12 Aug 1923, Evanston Wyoming
b. Woodruff Cemetery, Woodruff, Utah

Elizabeth Walton
b. 14 Jun 1840, Mexico City, Strafford County, Maine
p. Samuel Walton, Susan Walton (cousins)
d. 6 Aug 1918, Evanston Wyoming
b. Woodruff Cemetery, Woodruff, Utah

Stephen Vestal was born in Salem, Henry County, Iowa in 1839. His father, Thomas Frazier, was a devout Quaker. Stephen said his father spent too much time working for the Church and neglecting his family. That drove Stephen to leave home when he was young. He learned to care for himself and became a proficient mason, laying brick and rock, and he was a lather.

He and Elizabeth Walton were married March 1, 1860. Some records say Lawrence, Kansas, another Salem, Henry County, Iowa. Eight of their fourteen children were born in Kansas and Nebraska.

Elizabeth Walton was born in Mexico City, Oxford County, Maine. Her Father and Mother and two of her mother’s sisters; Martha and Ruth, accepted Mormonism in Maine in 1840. They were part of a caravan of 14 families; totaling 60 persons in all who left Mexico, Maine in July, 1845. At some point Samuel Walton left his wife Susan and their children with his brother-in-law, Arthur, while he went on ahead to Chicago, Illinois to see if he could find work. About a year later, when Susan went to that place to find him, Samuel could not be found. One of her children later said, “we never saw father again.” Elizabeth and her family were en route to the West for many years.

Elizabeth was stricken with hop disease. She was bed fast for eleven years. She heard of the Mormon missionaries and requested that they come and administer to her. She had faith that she would get well, and said, “I know I will get well if they pray for me.” Perry Green Session was one of the Elders.

A grandson wrote that “soon after Elizabeth and Stephen married the Civil War began. The slaves from the South were fleeing north for protection and to help the North win the war, for they wanted to be free. One day, one of those fugitive slaves ran into their home. Grandmother [Elizabeth] knew that the officers would be after him soon. She told him to sit on a chair in the corner of the room. She took the bedding off the bed and covered him with it. Then she went on working cleaning the house. Soon the officers came in and asked if a slave had come in her house. She said, ‘I haven’t seen any.’ They searched the house, but didn’t find him. That night after it was dark she gave him something to eat, and he went on his way. "

The family moved from Iowa, to Nebraska, then into Kansas, arriving in Bountiful, Utah in 1873. Stephen Vestal told his son Albert Orlando Frazier that he came out to Utah in a cattle car on the railroad, looking for work.

He first worked at Evanston Wyoming for a man by the name of Jessie Atkinson at a lumber yard. He was there during a very hard winter. The following spring he moved to the Woodruff settlement, homesteading a tract of land on Wood Creek about 1-1/2 miles from the settlement There were originally160 Acres of land in his homestead, the fields contained principally fox lilies and greasewood. Elizabeth said they came on the claim with only one cow.

They built a house near a spring where Stephen built a wooden curb for their culinary water. Ultimately he and his sons built the three-story rock house that still stands on the property. They had many trials and hard times to make a livelihood. There was plenty of game and Stephen was a good hunter and fisherman, and kept meat on hand, and they were known to have eaten squirrel.

The disease, that the Elders had caused to be healed, left Elizabeth with one leg shorter than the other. She was about 5 feet 3 inches tall and wore her hair in curls that hung down over her shoulders. Her hair was combed and curled every morning. She was very neat and proud of those curls. She loved her children and devoted her life for them. Elizabeth was a Josephite. She was true to her husband and loved to tell fortunes with cards and tea leaves.

(To be continued.)

Elder Perry Green Sessions: In an 1870 on-line Anti-Mormon Book I don't want to link to, Elder Perry Green Sessions is mentioned, "Ten miles out brought me to Sessions Settlement, sometimes called Bountiful, where I spent the night at the home of Perry Green Sessions, a Mormon Elder and return missionary, who entertained me with some account of his experience in England and the Eastern States, "while laboring to build up Zion among those who are still in darkness."
From a brief historical and genealogical account of the Frazier Family by Isabelle Frazier Sugden, a copy in my possession. Links of Walton History by Hattie Walton Heninger, Compiler, Genealogist, 1981, pgs. 45, 49.
The First 100 Years in Woodruff, printed by Art City Publishing Co., 1972, pgs. 271-275. Pictures from the Glenn & Helen Rex Frazier collection.

Frank Union Frazier Part 1

Frank Union Frazier
b. 3 Aug 1884, Woodruff, Utah
p. Stephen Vestal Frazier, Elizabeth Walton Frazier
m. 14 Jun 1906, Woodruff, Utah
wife. Emily Rufi
d. 17 Jan, 1953, Salt Lake City, Utah
b. 20 Jan, 1953, Woodruff City Cemetery



Frank Union Frazier was the youngest child of Stephen Vestal and Elizabeth Walton Frazier's fourteen children. His father and mother were Woodruff pioneers. They moved from Lawrence, Kansas to Bountiful, Utah before 1874. They were in Woodruff, Utah with their six children by 1875.

Writing of her husband, George Frazier (12 years older than Frank Union), Annie Rufi Frazier said that as a child, “George would go fishing and catch some trout and then play with the Indians, which were camped on the Woodruff Creek on Frazier’s Ranch. Indians were camped on the Frazier homestead. They came as pioneers. The cabin had a dirt floor with straw on it and a fireplace we used to do the cooking with a big iron kettle. When George was five years old, the folks had one cow.”







Frank attended the Woodruff, Utah School, as would his children and many of his grandchildren.










The Frazier Ranch, about one mile up the creek from Woodruff, Utah, with some of the buildings in the foreground, and the willow lined creek across the meadow.

(To be continued.)

The First 100 Years in Woodruff, printed by Art City Publishing Co., Springville, Utah 1972, p269. Pictures of Frank Union Frazier and his father, Stephen Vestal Frazier about 1890, and the Woodruff school, and the Frazier Ranch from Glenn and Helen Rex Frazier collection.