Gilbert, Frank T.  "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and
Garfield Counties, Washington Territory; and Umatilla County, Oregon."
Portland, OR: Print & Lithographing House of A. G. Walling, 1882. p. a16.
 
CANTREL R. FRAZIER

     is a native of Barren county, Kentucky, where he was born near Glasgow,
February 25, 1832. His parents were native Virginians, and farmers by
occupation. The father of Cantrel, whose name was Benjamin, moved with his
family to Sullivan county, Missouri, in 1847.  In 1853, the subject of this
sketch, having arrived at his majority, crossed the plains to California, where
he remained until 1855, when he recrossed the country in returning to his home
in Missouri. In 1857, February 25, he was married, in Milan, Sullivan county,
Missouri, to Miss Sytha J. Shubert, a daughter of Henry Shubert, of Kentucky. In
the fall of 1860, Cantrel, with his young wife, moved to Richardson county,
Nebraska, where they remained until 1863, when they returned to Missouri again.
The war was at that time in its fiercest throes, and after remaining for a while
within its scathing influence, they concluded to turn their steps, once more to
the west. Accordingly, with his family, the winter of 1863 found him in
Colorado, from where in 1864, he continued his journey to the west, until
arriving in the Walla Walla Valley, where he settled upon the ranch now occupied
by him as a homestead.
     A view of that place accompanies this work, and the representation is of a
home that a yeoman may be proud of, who arrived here eighteen years ago at the
head of a little family, the owner of a yoke of steers and a wagon, and less
than twenty dollars in money, to start life anew with. The original homestead of
160 acres has grown by acquisition to 600, to which 16 acres might be added that
are claimed under the timber culture act. There are 400 acres of it enclosed,
160 acres under cultivation, and to acres in orchard, and it is all situated on
Dry Creek 12 miles east of Walla Walla City.
     The children of Mr. and Mrs. Frazier are as follows: Elenia F., born June
12, 1859: Benjamin B., April 12, 1864; Louisa J., May,1866; John Wm., July 24,
1869; Armedia A., March 30, 1873; Doria A., January 20, 1876; Marshal M.,
December 28, 1871, died November 16, 1872.  Miss Elenia F., was married January
1, 1873, to Patrick Ayde, and lives within a mile of the Frazier homestead. Mr.
Frazier in politics is a democrat, but gives little attention to such matters.
Both he and Mrs. Frazier are members of the Christian church, having joined that
denomination in 1872.

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Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in February 2007 by Diana Smith.

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