Ancestor Birthday – December 13 – Sarah Frazier 1793-1836

Sarah Frazier was one of my 3^rd gt-grandmothers. She was the daughter of Francis and Elizabeth (Stanley) Frazier, born on 13 Dec 1793 in Randolph County North Carolina. She was the 5^th child of 10, with 6 brothers and 3 sisters.

This was another one of my Quaker families. They left North Carolina with a certificate from Center Monthly Meeting in Guilford County in 1810 and went to Fairfield Monthly Meeting in Highland County Ohio. It was a little less than 2 years later, 10 Jul 1812, when Sarah married Isaac Hockett. I wrote about him on 17 Jan 2017. Two of Sarah's brothers, Gideon and Thomas, married two of Isaac's sisters, Ann and Hannah. So their children were double cousins. I have some DNA matches with cousins from these families.

It was in February of 1816 when Isaac and Sarah and their 2 oldest children were granted a certificate to go to New Garden Monthly Meeting in Randolph County Indiana. When Cherry Grove Monthly Meeting was set off from New Garden the Hockett family were members there. The Cherry Grove records show that Isaac and Sarah had 12 children from 1813 to 1835.

Their daughter Sarah was almost age 9 when she died in Jan 1835. About 7 months later their last child Elijah lived only a few hours before he died. Both Sarah and Elijah were buried at Cherry Grove. It was almost a year later when Sarah herself died 10 Aug 1836 and was also buried at Cherry Grove.

Isaac remarried to another Sarah and they moved to Iowa, first Henry County and finally to Hardin County, where Isaac died and was buried.

Ancestor Birthday - March 15 - Elizabeth Stanley 1761

Elizabeth Stanley was one of my 4th great-grandmothers. She was born in Rowan County, North Carolina, 15 Mar 1761 in the section which later (1770/71) became Guilford County.

It is believed that her parents were John and Ann (Ballard) Stanley.

Elizabeth married Francis Frazier about 1783. Her sister Susanna married James Frazier and her sister Marjorie married John Frazier, who were both brothers of Francis. This makes a number of possible double cousins.

Francis and Elizabeth were members of the Quaker church in North Carolina and as many others did, they moved to Ohio with their nine children about 1810. It was in Highland County, Ohio, where a daughter (my 3rd great-grandmother Sarah) and two of their sons married children of Stephen and Margaret (Thornburgh) Hockett, making another set of double cousins for me.

The family moved on to Indiana about 1817 and it was there that Francis died in 1830. As so often happens in this time period, I haven't yet found information about Elizabeth's death.

I wrote about Margaret (Thornburgh) Hockett on 10 Jan 2017. Then I noted that there were 21 DNA matches to her on the DNA circles on Ancestry.com. Now I checked today and from her circle there are 7 matches who. from their family trees. are also descendants of Elizabeth. Since that DNA might have come from any one of the four (Francis, Elizabeth, Stephen or Margaret) and it is rather far back, I still like to think that maybe it was some of Elizabeth's DNA that was passed down to me.