The following is a verbatum transcript of a newspaper article which may be of interest to all FRAZIER/FRAZER researchers following the line of George FRAZIER [Abt. 1725 - Bef. 1790] and his wife, Mary Pugh [Abt. 1728 - ?] . Please keep in mind that this was written by a reporter from information given by family members, and not by a genealogist. "TIMES-REPUBLICAN, MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA, SEPT. 2, 1931 SEVENTY-FIVE ATTEND SECOND ANNUAL REUNION OF FRAZER FAMILY AT ELDORA Decendants of Henry and Mary Otwell Frazer, early settlers in Iowa, met Sunday at Pine lake, near Eldora, for their second annual reunion. Seventy-five relatives were seated for the bountiful picnic dinner at noon. A short business session followed the dinner when officers for the coming year were elected. They are A. L. Frazer, city, president; H. A. Frazer, Union, vice president, and Stella Frazer Worley, city, secretary-treasurer. A short program was given and the assembly voted to meet next year at Riverview park, this city, on the last Sunday in August. Those in attendance at the reunion were W. E. White, Mr. And Mrs. Bert Frace and daughter Frances, Mr. And Mrs. Rex Oliver and daughters, Barbara, Julia Jane and Ione, Mr. And Mrs. Walter Way and family and Ed Kinley, Des Moines; E. H. Frazer and Mr. And Mrs. Manly Frazer, Mount Pleasant; Mrs. Reba White and Mrs. Julia Miller, Salem; Mr. And Mrs. Albert Frazer and son and Mr. And Mrs. Clyde White, Oskaloosa; Mr. And Mrs. George Frahm and son, Nora Springs; Mr. And Mrs. A, W. Frazer, Mrs. S. Swarts, Mr. And Mrs. G.L. Frazer, Mr. And Mrs. Homer Burgess and daughters, Betty and Bonny, and Mr. and Mrs. Dan Donner and two children, Eldora; Mr. And Mrs. Maurice Cook and son, New Providence; Mr. And Mrs. H. A. Frazer and daughter Mamie, Union; Mr. And Mrs. Floyd Hickman and children, Ione, Lucile, Wendell and Wallace, Liscomb; Mr. And Mrs. A. L. Frazer, Mrs. Adila Johnson, Mrs. Mildred Hall and daughter Barbara Jo, Mr. And Mrs. John Weber, Mr. And Mrs. Walter Coram, Mr. And Mrs. Otto Tuttle, Mrs. Julia E. Tuttle, Mr. And Mrs. Owen White, Mr. And Mrs. Charles Chinn and Mr. And Mrs. Charles Worley and son James, of this city, and Mr. And Mrs. L. H. Smith of Los Angeles. History of Frazer Family When William the Conqueror returned from his last conquest of Normandy in 1066, he took with him a young Norman named Rene Frazel, who was a great favorite of his. He gave Frazel a large tract of land in Scotland and Frazel changed his name to Frazer, to become the first of the Frazer clan. The clan grew to be a large and powerful one and as it was a noted clan the members had two colors of plaids for their kilts. The one in which the red predominates was their social plaid, and the one with the green was their hunting plaid. The samples owned by members of the family in this country, shown Sunday at the reunion, came from a merchant in Glasgow. The emblem of the family was the yew tree. Early Entry Into United States Several generations later George Frazer came to North Carolina with his wife, Mary, a native of Wales, and their son, Isaac Frazer, and his wife, Rebecca Saferight, a daughter of Henry and Nancy Saferight, Germans, were the heads of the next generation. The third generation in North Carolina was headed by their son, Henry Frazer, and his wife, Mary Otwell, daughter of James and Elinor Reynolds Otwell, and grand-daughter of Curtis and Triphena Otwell of Ireland. The Frazer family today is a well-mixed race. Henry and Mary Otwell left a family of eleven children, of which the present group is descended. The children were Anna M. (Way), Jerusha (Gossett), Fannie (White), Alson G. and Eli Branson Frazer, Matilda (Corsbie), Ali (Elliott), Lotan S. and Heber E. Frazer, Elzena D. (Cox) and Curtis Otwell Frazer. Those celebrating in reunion Sunday were of the fifth and sixth generations, their children and grandchildren. Old Log House Moved When Henry and his wife, Mary Frazer, came from North Carolina to Indiana with their six oldest children, in 1829, they bought a log house and tore it down to move it to an acre of timber land Henry had bought in Boone county, Indiana. This log house was the birthplace of the other five children. After Henry had left this house his oldest daughter, Ann M., married Henry Way and the Ways lived in the old home. The third daughter, Matilda, married William Brown and occupied the house and when the Browns were visiting in Indiana in 1905 they found the place still standing. They had it photographed and a log taken from the structure from which a replica of the building was made and both the picture and the miniature cabin were displayed Sunday at the reunion. To Iowa in 1855 Henry and Mary Frazer came to Iowa in the spring of 1855 by ox team and made their entry into the state by fording the Mississippi, as there were no bridges. They located in Henry county, where Mary died on October 11, that year. She was buried in the Cedar Creek cemetery. Henry lived until Aug. 3, 1863 He too was buried in the Cedar Creek burying grounds. Representatives of the seven families of the fifth generation were at the reunion Sunday, and the sixth generation was also well represented." ************************** This article is glued to the inside cover of the Bible which belonged to Curtis Otwell Frazer. It has been typed here exactly as it was published – errors and all. The page facing the front cover is inscribed as follows: “C.O. Frazers Bible Salem Iowa Feb 21, 1867” “This book came to A. L. Frazer Nov. 3, 1915 Marshalltown, Iowa” “To George B. Frazer Oct. 1, 1944 Red Bluff, California” “To Richard Frazer Smith, youngest son of Donald M. and Margaret Frazer Smith on death of Jean Frazer Taft, 1984” “To Jocelyn Ann (Smith) Hubbard, daughter of Richard F. and Shirley Jocelyn (Webb) Smith and 2nd great-granddaughter of Curtis Otwell and Jane D. (Hockett) Frazer. December 13, 1998, Gaithersburg, Maryland.” There is a sheet glued to the back cover of the Bible which says: “My Great grand Father Frazer Came from Scotland and his wife from Wales. My Great Grand Father Otwell from Ireland. My Great Grand Mother Frazer was a German Written by C O Frazer April 7, 1915” The Bible also contains the Family Records and some newspaper clippings of the Curtis Otwell Frazer family. ******************************** This transcription was done by Jocelyn Ann (Smith) Hubbard on May 4, 1999 in Gaithersburg, Maryland.)