Alexander Frazier and Priscilla Porterfield

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Husband Alexander Frazier ¹

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           Born: 29 Nov 1838 - Greenville, Mercer Co, PA 2
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         Father: James Frazier (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth McKenzie (      -Aft 1879) 3

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       Marriage: 17 Jun 1874 2

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Wife Priscilla Porterfield ²

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         Father: Joseph Porterfield (1799-1876) 2
         Mother: Hannah Hall (1806-1893) 2 4

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Children

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1 M James W. Frazier ²

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General Notes: Husband - Alexander Frazier

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He was reared in Venango County, PA, and received a good English education in the common schools and at Cooperstown Academy. He enlisted in company I, Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry, October 14, 1861, and served three years. He participated in many of the bloodiest battles of the war, including the Seven Days’ fight on the Peninsula, Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Cold Harbor, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House and numerous others, in all eighty-seven, through which he passed without serious injury. In 1862 he was promoted to the lieutenancy of his company, and later took command of the same. He was honorably discharged in October, 1864, and returning to Venango County, engaged in the oil business, which he prosecuted with fair success until 1870, and then moved to a homestead in Canal Township. Politically he was a Democrat and took an active part in the affairs of his party. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and belonged to the G. A. R. [HVC 1890, 1062]
He and his wife had three children, only one was still living in 1890.

1 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1061.

2 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1062.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 717.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 338.