Seventh Generation

3781. Lauretta V. "Etta" Oatts was born in 1859 in Kentucky. Lauretta died in Wayne Co., KY in 1923 and was buried at Frisbie Cemetery in Monticello, Wayne Co., KY in 1923 .¹²⁴⁶²

Lauretta V. "Etta" Oatts and James Knox Frazer were married on 6 October 1885 in Kentucky.¹²⁴⁶³ James Knox Frazer¹²⁴⁶⁴ was born on 22 July 1848 in Wayne Co., KY. James Knox died in 1890 at the age of 42 in Wayne Co., KY and was buried at Frisbie Cemetery in Frisbie, Wayne Co., KY.¹²⁴⁶⁵

"J. Knox Frazer, attorney-at-law, Monticello, Ky., is a native of Wayne County, and was born July 22, 1848. He is the second of three living children born to Garrett B. and Kezih (Hutchison) Frazer, viz: J. Knox, Elizabeth Nicholas and Samuel H. Garrett B. Frazer was born in Jessamin County, Ky., in 1814; he was a gun-smith by trade. He died in 1864. He was a son of J. Frazer, of Virginia, whose father was James, a native also of Virginia; the latter was a son of John Frazer, who came from Scotland. Kezih (Hutchison) Frazer was born in Wayne County, Ky. a daughter of James Hutchison, a native of North Carolina, whose father was Samuel Hutchison, born in Scotland, and the latter was a son of James Hutchison. J. Knox Frazer was educated at the common schools, and engaged in school teaching and farming until 1877, when he began to practice at Monticello, Ky. He entered the law department of University of Louisville in 1870, where he graduated with honor in 1880, and the same year was appointed county attorney of Wayne County. October 6, 1885, he married Etta Oatts, of Wayne County, Ky., a daughter of Cosby and Irene (Frisbie) Oatts. One child has blessed this union: Cosby. Mrs. Frazer is a member of the Christian Church. Politically Mr. Frazer is Democratic."