John Owen Frizzell

FRIZZELL, WEBSTER, SMITH, PAISLEY

Posted By: Judy Kelley, volunteer (email)
Date: 11/19/2009 at 20:09:06

John Owen Frizzell was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, June 22, 1831. Five years later he came with his parents to Iowa, locating on a farm near Florence, a few miles south of Wapello.

In 1856 he was united in marriage with Eliza Jane Webster, a daughter of one of the early settlers of Louisa county. Of this union there were nine children, seven sons and two daughters, Elmira Smith, of Wapello; Samuel, of Silver Creek, Neb.; Joseph, of Eureka, Oregon; Eli, of Woodburn, Ia.; Marion, of Grangeville, Idaho; Susan Paisley, Harry, Curtis and John, of Muscatine. These together with the wife and nineteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren, survive him.

During the greater part of his life he was a resident of Louisa county spending only the last few years in Muscatine county, where he died Jan. 24, 1908. Mr. Frizzell was a long time resident of the vicinity of Wapello where he is kindly remembered, and where he was familiarly known as "Jack" Frizzell. He was a man of generous disposition, a lover of hospitality, a man who showed himself friendly and therefore had many friends. He was an honest, upright, industrious man, having the confidence and esteem of a wide circle of friends and neighbors who extend their sympathy to his family in this sad hour.

The funeral was held Saturday, conducted by Rev. J.E. Newsom, with burial at Bethel, near which place he resided for many years.

Source: LCHS scrapbook