Goodspeed's Biographies Goodspeed's History of Greene County -- 1887

A. J. Frazier

A. J. Frazier, of Frazier & Mercer, liverymen, was born in Greene County, March 21, 1840, the son of Abner and Jane (Dinwiddie) Frazier, the former a native of Greene County, the son of Abner, Sr,, a pioneer of the same, and a soldier of 1812. The mother, a daughter of James Dinwiddie, was a devoted Christian.

Our subject was educated at Clear Springs Academy, and then up to the war, excepting a year in Knox County, he was a Greene County farmer. The night of March 16, 1863, he escaped to Louisville, Ky., and joined Company E, Fourth Tennessee Infantry, United States Volunteers, and was sergeant, major, and second and first lieutenant, successively. He was captured in 1863, and paroled at once, and served through the war, being mustered out at Nashville, in August, 1865. He was a merchant and then a farmer, until 1878, when he became sheriff of Greene County, and was twice re-elected. He has since been farming, and in the livery business.

In 1861, Catherine Weems became his wife. She was born in December, 1839; they have five children. She is the daughter of R. B. Weems.

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