Anyone researching this FRAZIER family of Fraziers Bottom, Putnam County, West Virginia? ================================================== Sam & Ann FRAZIER and their three Scotch-Irish sons, Sam, Robert and Billy, migrated from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (Tinkling Springs, Augusta County), in the year 1800 or 1801, to the bottom land along the Kanawha River, now know as Fraziers Bottom. A fourth son, Allen was born shortly after they arrived in November 1801. They bought their land from the heirs of George Washington. Sam & Ann supposedly had a few daughters, but their names and proof of such is all unknown. ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Putnam Democrat, Friday, August 1, 1958, page 10 T h e P u t n a m C o u r t H o u s e S t o r y . . . "Among the first settlers in the Teays Valley District were: Allen Reece, Richard McCallister, George B. Bentley, Bennett Barrister, Samuel Frazier, Robert Frazier, William Frazier, Robert M. Hall, William A. Alexander, Hugh McGuire, Samuel McGuire, Alexander Handley, Samuel Handley, James Gillespie, and Thomas Garey." compiler's note: The three Fraziers mentioned above would seem to be three of the four sons of Sam & Ann Frazier. The mention of Robert Frazier as a settler is most likely an error as no further information on him, nor any of his descendants, has ever been found. It has been theorized that he either returned to the Shenandoah Valley, settled in Nicholas County, or even possibly in the Cross Lanes area or most likely, died young. Also, the fourth son of Sam & Ann Frazier, Allen, has a long list of descendants in the Putnam County area, and he is omitted from the above settlers. Possibly, the author of the above history has these two Fraziers mixed up (or could it be that Robert & Allen are the same?). ========================================== Richie in Nitro, West Virginia ==========================================