Demas M. Frazee and Joanna L. Powell

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Husband Demas M. Frazee ¹

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           Born: 6 Jan 1854 - Washington Co, PA 1
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         Father: Andrew S. Frazee (1816-1889) 2
         Mother: Leah Moninger (Abt 1821-Aft 1893) 3

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       Marriage: 1883 4

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Wife Joanna L. Powell ⁴

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         Father: Isaac Powell (      -1879) 4
         Mother: Caroline Shutterly (      -Aft 1893) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Demas M. Frazee

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He remained on the old home farm until he attained manhood, and while his father and eldest brother, Martin V., were gone to the Civil War, all the general care of the farm devolved on David L. and himself, then mere lads. Many a day before he was nine years of age did he have to follow the plow and attend to the general work of the farm; but he yet found time to improve his mind, for he attended both the common schools of his township and the Lone Pine Academy. In course of time he taught school two winters in Amwell township, but during the greater part of the following winter he was laid up with typhoid fever. In the following summer (1881) he opened a general store at the locality where later was the Topsail post-office, whence after a time he moved to the village of California, on the Monongahela river, where he remained about five and one-half years, engaged in general merchandise business. Selling this establishment out, he came to the borough of Washington, and in February, 1885, formed a partnership with R. C. Vandegrift in the boot and shoe business, the firm later becoming Frazee & Montgomery, by the retirement of Mr. Vandegrift in favor of B. F. Montgomery, which continued until February, 1891, when the firm of Frazee & McClain was formed by the retirement of Mr. Montgomery in favor of Hiram McClain.
He was a member of the Christian Church, of which he was treasurer and a deacon, and of its Sunday-school he was superintendent one year. Socially he was a member of the Equitable Aid Union. [CBRWC, 993]

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 992.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 647, 992.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 647.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 993.