Polly Frazee - 444S

Wilemina Rebecca “Minnie” Frazee - 5

DIED

FRAZEE - Minnie B. Frazee, daughter of William D. and Rebecka Jenkenson Frazee, aged four years and eleven months.

Funeral will take place from their residence, No. 733 North Meridian street, on Friday, 28th Instant at 2 p.m. Services by Elder W. F. Black. Friends are invited to attend without further notice.  (Winchester Journal please copy)

Indianapolis News 10/27/1870.

Betsy Frazee - 2S

Mrs. Frazee Succumbs At Laguna Beach

Funeral services for Mrs. Betsy Frazee, 92, pioneer resident of Moosa Canyon who died Saturday at the home in Laguna Beach, were conducted Tuesday from South Laguna Mortuary. Internment followed at Loma Vista Cemetery in Fullerton.

Mrs. Frazee and her husband, Isaac, moved to Moosa Canyon in 1890 and built Frazee Castle, which is still standing. Mr. and Mrs. Frazee were married in Bonsall June 25, 1885.

The Frazees produced a play, “The Indian Peace Pageant” for several years at a natural amphitheater near their Moosa Canyon home. The play, with musical background, attracted visitors from thruout the Southland.

She was born in Louisville, Ky. Nov. 21, 1863 and resided in the southern part of Oceanside before she and Mr. Frazee moved to Moosa Canyon.

The Frazees left their Moosa Canyon home in 1930, moving to Laguna Beach where they built their studio. Mr. Frazee succumbed there in 1942.

Mrs. Frazee wrote a book entitled “Journeying Thru the Years.” She had completed a manuscript on another book at the time of her death.

William C. Frazee, last surviving son of Mrs. Frazee, died six days before his mother’s death. He succumbed in his home at Fairfield.

Four daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Worsley of Laguna Beach, Mrs. Betty Moses of Ontario, Mrs. Edith Eckhart of Pasadena, and Mrs. Helen Bowers of Los Angeles, survive. In addition to 38 grandchildren, including Mrs. Jean Trussell of San Marcos, and 35 great grandchildren.

Escondido Times Advocate  March 21, 1956, page 1.

Oceanside : Gateway of All San Diego County - 1888

from the Oct. 24, 1891 issue of the South Oceanside Diamond

W. D. Frazee had a great many talents, mostly for promotion.  He had a couple of farms in Indiana, a couple of stores in Indianapolis as well as a publishing house, came west to California in the Gold Rush, and attempted to win one of the first state senate seats after statehood on the Republican ticket.  He worked as a circuit minister for the Christian Church, and he wrote several books in his lifetime. 

Every place he moved to, he seemed to believe was the best place in the world.  Oceanside, California should make a strong case, but although four family members owned property there, and his fourth son's family remain in the Oceanside area to this day, by measure of his length of stay in any town, Oceanside ranks well down the list. Still, he has a convincing way with words in his book Oceanside: Gateway to All San Diego County. 

If you'd like to read his glowing words, please click on the link and, thanks to the good works of the Oceanside Historical Society , you'll have the chance.  Also, consider supporting the society with a cash donation.