Andrew Jackson Frazier (c1847-aft1897)

Little is known of this myserious ancestor, often referred to as Jack or Jackson Frazier. He was probably attracted to the area by the 1880's mining boom. An older man, he married the much younger Evaline Chadwick in 1885 and had 5 children. Soon after the birth of their last child, he left and remarried a woman named Vandergriff, probably in TN. I personally suspect that our ancestor is the same as the Andrew Jackson Frazier who was born in Trussville, Jefferson Co., AL, to Richardson Frazier and his wife Mary and married Nancy J. Lindsey in Morrowsville, AL in 1860. They had children between 1861 and 1880, but not enough is known about them after that. I asked Brian Oster who maintained a website on the Lindsey family this Andrew married into and he said he could not dispute my theory that they could be the same person. A pattern of leaving one wife to marry a younger one is established by our A. J. Frazier and could well have occurred for this Jefferson Co. A. J. Frazier between 1880 and 1885. Working against this theory is the following oral tradition. My cousin Lee Frazier recalled being told by his grandmother (Harry Eulis Frazier's wife) that Jackson Frazier was from "the mountains in Virginia". He said he this has led him to focus in the area of Virginia, West Virginia and northeast Tennessee. He had also looked at the Richardson Frazier family but has put more emphasis on the possible Virginia origins. Wherever he came from, the mining boom is probably what brought him to the area of Dade County, Georgia/DeKalb County, Alabama. The following is a list of all "Andrew Frazier", "Jackson Frazier", "Jack Frazier" and "A Frazier" results for Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia from Familysearch.org for the 1880 US census (limited by "United States" for Birthplace Country, "1850" for Birth Year, "+ or - 20 years" for Birth Year Range, and "White" for Race): Name             Birth Place Age Occupation Marital Status Head of Household Realtion Census Place Andrew Frazier GA 26 Farm laborer Single John Frazier Son Mitchell Co., GA

Children

 * colspan="3" bgcolor="#FFfce0" style="color: #000000;" |Children of Andrew Jackson Frazier and Mary Evaline Chadwick
 * colspan="3" bgcolor="#FFfce0" style="color: #000000;" |Children of Andrew Jackson Frazier and Mary Evaline Chadwick


 * colspan="3" bgcolor="#FFfce0" |Children of Andrew Jackson Frazier and ? Vandergriff
 * colspan="3" bgcolor="#FFfce0" |Children of Andrew Jackson Frazier and ? Vandergriff