A portrait and biographical record of Boone, Clinton and Hendricks Counties, Ind. : containing biographical sketches of many prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all of the presidents of the United States, and biographies of the governors of Indiana (1895)

AMANDA M. FRAZEE, of Perry town- 
ship, Boone county, Ind., was born 
in Lewis county, Ky. , November 14, 
1834, a daughter of John N. and Ma- 
tilda (Howard) Doyal, and a sister of Mr. D. D. 
Doyal, of whom full mention is made on an 
adjacent page. Mrs. Frazee was but six years 
of age when her parents came from Kentucky 
and settled in Boone county, Ind., and here 
she was reared and educated. July I, 1852, 
she was married, in Perry township, to Aaron 
Frazee, who was born March 2, 1830, in Rush 
county, Ind., a son of Moses and Rebecca 
(Rigdon) Frazee, natives of Ohio. In 184S, 
Aaron Frazee came to Boone county and 
bought a farm of forty 'acres, but just across 
the line in Hendricks county, later added to 
its dimensions, and resided on it one year, and 
then moved to the village of New Brunswick, 
Boone county, where he engaged in genera! 
merchandising until 1861, when he enlisted in 
company .\, Eighty-sixth Indiana volunteer in- 
fantry, and was commissioned captain of the 
company. He served gallantly with his com- 
mand until 1863, in all its engagements and 
marches, when ill health compelled him to re- 
sign and return to his home. He then re- 
moved to Indianapolis, where he carried on a 
successful gfrocery trade until his death, which 
occurred January 16, 1869, his remains being 
interred in the Howard cemetery, Perry town- 
ship, Boone county. He was a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Frazee is a 
devoted Baptist. He was a republican in poli- 
tice, was a Freemason, was a successful busi- 
ness man, and was universally respected for 
his integrity and unblemished character. He 
had born to him five children, who were named 
as follows; Dora, deceased; Emma, wife of 
A. J. Smith, a clothier at Lebanon; John M., 
J. E. and Charles G. After the death of her 
husband, Mrs. Frazee, with her three younger 
children, retired to the home farm of eighty 
acres she had inherited from her father, and 
here she still resides, honored by the citizens 
of Perry township for her sterling worth and 
christian piety. 

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