FRAZEE, Mrs. Sophia (JACKSON): Born 1819

JACKSON, FRAZEE, MILLER, RICKETS, SWEIRS

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Date: 10/13/2013 at 11:43:55

THE MORTUARY RECORD

The Passing of Two Old Settlers, Edward W. Day and Mrs. Sophia Frazee.

**Handwritten: 1903

Mrs. Frazee.

Sophia Jackson was born on the morning of Dec. 7, 1819. Her parents Jacob and Elizabeth (Poling) Jackson emigrated from Allegheny Co., Maryland, in the spring of 1805, to what is now Jackson Twp., Perry Co., Ohio. There they endured the toils of ??? early days, and during the war of 1813 her father was a soldier for his country. They raised a family of four sons and seven daughters of whom Sophia was the fifth child. They were staunch Christians and members of the Methodist church, and brought up their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, and against the evils of the intemperance of those days.

Sophia was early taught a reverence for God's word and his worship, which ??s lasting. She read the Bible ??rough when but a child and through her long life continues to read it every day while she was able, and when confined to her bed she was glad to have others read. it was to her the book of life. It never grew old. She was converted in a meeting held in her father's house, when about twelve years old, and joined the Methodist Episcopal church of which she was a faithful member till death.

On the 15th day of April, 1832, she was joined in holy matrimony to Stephen J. Frazee by Rev. Jacob Hooper. To this union were born twelve children, two of whom died in infancy, one daughter Elvira aged 18 in 1853, and Mrs. Geo. Platt(?) in 189?. All the remaining children were permitted to minister to her in her last sickness but two sons, William of Lincoln, Montana, and Samuel of Bisbee, Arizona.

In the fall of 1841 she with her husband and five children and four married sisters and families, Mrs. Daniel Miller, Mrs. Joshua Ricketts, and Mrs. William Frazee, her parents, one unmarried sister afterward Mrs. William Swiers and the youngest, John Fletcher Jackson, later of Baker City, Oregon, moved to Van Buren Twp., Van Buren Co., Iowa. The father and mother died in 1842 and her husband died April 27, 1882, in his 73d years. She outlived those of her day and generation. She was the last of her own and her husband's families. For several years she was afflicted with rheumatism so that she had to use two canes in walking. For almost a years she had been confined more or less to her bed, and at times her sufferings were intense. Many have spoken of her patience and cheerfulness through all. She was a faithful witness both in public and private, in health and in sickness, of Christ's power to save and to keep and to sustain. Her neighbors, the church and her pastors as well as her immediate friends and family were remembered in her daily petitions. She died on Saturday morning, Nov. 7, at 9:?0, just one month before her birthday when she would have been ninety-one. Her body was laid to rest in the old Chequest graveyard beside that of her husband and where her parents, her husband's father and many kin??red have been buried there to wait the resurrection morning when they who are in their graves shall hear his voice.

Mrs. Frazee's funeral sermon will be preached in the Kilbourne church Dec. 6 at 11 a.m., by Rev. E.J. Pike of Williamsburg, Iowa.

**Handwritten: State Line Dem. Wed. 25 Nov. 1903
Also see Obit. Book H, Page 82

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book C, Page 280, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA