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Duane's take
Here's how the official marker tells it, and I'll do my best to honor every word. Way out in Hill County, there's a piece of ground that has belonged to the same family for over a hundred and twenty-five years. That's not a boast.
That's just the record. It starts with Richard Cason Frazier and his wife Agnes, born Clark, who came to this land in 1852 on a land grant. They put down roots the old-fashioned way, the kind that hold.
Richard didn't live to see everything that followed. He died in 1856. Agnes carried on, and she lived until 1875.
But by then, something had already taken shape around that original grant. The site grew. Adjoining property from the B.
M. Bryan Survey was added, bringing timber and spring water into the picture. Timber and spring water.
In that country, in that era, you couldn't ask for much more than that. Now, here's where the story really settles in. Richard and Agnes had a son named John.
And in 1883, John Frazier donated a portion of that family land so a schoolhouse and a nondenominational church building could be constructed there. Think on that a moment. His father had claimed this ground thirty-one years before, and now John was giving part of it back, in a manner of speaking, to the community that had grown up all around it.
The area took the family name. Frazierville. Over a century and a quarter, the land has stayed in the family's hands.
Some stories end with a loss. This one just keeps going.
What the marker says
Richard Cason Frazier (d. 1856) and his wife Agnes (Clark) (d. 1875) settled on a land grant here in 1852. The site was later enlarged with the addition of adjoining property from the B. M. Bryan Survey, which provided timber and spring water. A portion of the land was donated in 1883 by Richard's son John for the construction of a schoolhouse and nondenominational church building. The area surrounding the site became known as the Frazierville community. Family members have owned the site for over 125 years.