S. J. A. Frazier

     S. J. A. Frazier, of Hill City, Hamilton Co., Tenn., is a native of the eastern division of the State, his birth occurring in Rhea County, in 1840. Graduating at the East Tennessee University at Knoxville, just before the war, he entered the Confederate service, and arose to the rank of captain in the Nineteenth Tennessee Regiment. At Chickamauga be was shot through the windpipe and captured, and confined at Johnston's, Island, until the close of the war. In 1870 he was elected attorney-general for the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Tennessee; moved to Hamilton County in 1882, and became one of the earliest settlers and chief founders of Hill City. To his marriage with Annie Keith, which was solemnized in 1871, two children have been born, Alleck and Sallie. In the last Democratic convention Mr. Frazier was a prominent candidate for Congress.
Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887