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per FindaGrave - to reach this cemetery turn off route 52 across from the entrance to Fort Gay. Turn right, the cemetery road is to the left about 1-1.5 miles, up the hill.
Author: Gary Grant Howard
From “Abstracts of Rev. War Pension Files” abstracted by Virgil D. White and from Frasher/Frazier Family History by Harry Leon Sellars, Jr. soldier was born on 25 December 1753 in Albemarle County, Virginia.
Micajah married Susannah “Susan” Hamilton in about 1774 in Staunton, Virginia. Family records name the children of Micajah and Susan as Nancy born Amherst Co., VA married William Adams; Sarah married Aaron Lowe; Lewis married Elizabeth Griffith Ratliff; William married M. Sarah Frances “Dolly” Webb; Sarah “Sally” Frances married William Thompson; Hasten married M. Bathsheba Berry; Mary E. “Polly” married Samuel Webb, and George married Charlotte Wells.
During the American Revolution, he was a Soldier who served in the Virginia Line of the Continental Army. A highway marker on West Virginia on Route 52 near his gravesite states that he served 18 months in Virginia Line under Pope, was at Hood’s Fort, Williamsburg, and also served under Washington against Cornwallis at Yorktown.
He and his family moved after 1790 from Amherst County, VA to Pittsylvania County, Virginia where they lived for about two years. They then migrated from Virginia to Wilkes County, North Carolina, and then on to the Franklin and Patrick County area of Virginia. After a few years, the family moved to Russell County, Virginia, and in about 1802 to an area near the Big Sandy River. As the children were grown and married, some lived in Lawrence County, Kentucky, while others lived across the Big Sandy River in what is now Wayne County, West Virginia.
In about 1835 some members of the family, including Micajah and Susan, moved to Jackson County, Missouri. Soldier applied for a pension there on 2 May 1836. After three or four years the family, except son John, returned to Lawrence County, Kentucky. The soldier applied for a pension in Lawrence County, Kentucky on 26 December 1842.
Micajah Frazier died on 9 Nov 1843 in Lawrence County, Kentucky. His wife Susan then moved to Wayne County, West Virginia, and lived with her grandson Granville. The soldier is buried just east of the town of Fort Gay, West Virginia*.
Micajah Frazier (also Micager Frashure, Frazear, Frazeur and Frasher) was born 25 December 1753 at Albemarle County, Virginia. According to his statement of service given while applying for a Revolutionary War Pension in 1836, he moved to Amherst County, Virginia as a child and while living there, he enlisted about the year 1780 and served “…at various times until sometimes shortly after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, amounting to at least eighteen months in all, as private with [the] Virginia troops under Captains Richard Ballenger, Samuel Cabell, Dawson and Green and Colonels Taylor, Pope and Dabney.”
His statement goes on to specify he went to Wilkes County, North Carolina for two years and “…during which time he went to Amherst County and was married to Susan Hamilton near Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia; that he then moved to Pittsylvania County, Virginia, where he remained for about three years and then moved to the western part of Virginia on Sandy River, and about 12 months later moved to Jackson County, Missouri.”
Micajah Frazier died 9 November 1843 at Lawrence County, Kentucky.
“On account of the Revolutionary War service of Micajah Frazier, his widow, Susan, was allowed pension on her application executed October 13, 1846, at which time she stated she was eighty-nine years of age and was living in Wayne County, Virginia. In 1848 she stated that she was ninety-five years of age and a resident of that county.”
According to NSDAR Records, Micajah Frazier and Susan Hamilton Frazier were the parents of Lewis, William, Hasten, Mary “Polly” and Sarah.
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DAUGHTER SARAH FRAZIER MARRIED JAMES AARON LOWE, NOT WILLIAM THOMPSON - Apr 2012
MAIDEN NAME OF ELIZABETH, WIFE OF SON LEWIS, GIVEN AS GRIFFE, GRIFFEY OR GRIFFITH