Frizzell, Walter E.

FRIZZELL, TRIVETTS, TEMPLE, STATTS, HARTZ, MYERLY, FARMER, RUSSELL, MCGLAUGHLIN, ARMSTRONG, EMRICK, WOODWARD, ONEIL

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Frizzell, Walter E.

Walter E. Frizzell is a prosperous young farmer living on the Kellogg road about five miles east of Newton, on the place in which he was born. He is the son of George and Mary L. (Trivetts) Frizzell. His father was born in Knox County, Ohio, in 1841, and died in June 1909, in Jasper County, Iowa. He, the father, was the eldest child in a family of nine, five of whom still survive: Allen; Elnora, wife of Joseph Temple; Susan, wife of Joseph Statts; John M., and Elizabeth, wife of William Hartz.

The mother of Mr. Frizzell was born in Indiana, December 14, 1846, and died in Jasper County, Iowa, February 13, 1900. She was one of six children. George Frizzell, father of the subject, was twice married, and by his first wife he had two children, Alva G. and Flora B., who married Elijah Myerly. By the second wife he had three children: Minnie, Inez Farmer, who married G. E. Farmer, and Walter E., the subject of this review. The latter was born July 10, 1878. On December 11, 1907, he married Lila May Russell, daughter of Samuel and Katherine (McGlaughlin) Russell, who was born May 24, 1883. Her father, a man of upright character and a veteran of the Civil War, was familiarly called Uncle Samuel, on account of his amiable disposition. For the last three years of his life he walked in darkness, having lost the use of his eyes. Mr. Russell was three times married. In 1846 he married Ellen Armstrong, who died while he was in the war, leaving no children. His second wife was Katherine Emrick, to whom he was married in 1866. She died in 1878, leaving three children: Jacob, Eldora, and Sadie, wife of George Woodward. In 1882 he was again married to Katherine McClaughlin of Rochester, Pennsylvania, who still survives him and lives in Newton, Iowa. To them were born three children: Samuel C., Lila May and Claribel, wife of W. P. O'Neil, living in Des Moines.

Mr. Russell was born in Richmond, Virginia, and died August 31, 1904, in Jasper County. He came to Iowa from Virginia in May 1887, and located near Metz.

To Mr. and Mrs. Frizzell have been born two children: Charles William, born September 6, 1908, and Mary Catherine, born October 26, 1911.

Mr. Frizzell is the owner of one hundred and twenty acres of land, worth two hundred dollars per acre. He inherited a part of this land at his father's death, and then bought out the interests of the other heirs. He is a Republican in politics. Mrs. Frizzell is a member of the Baptist Church at Newton.Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 923.