Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Monroe County.

JOHN M. FRAIM, deceased, was born March 6, 1813, in Jackson, now Clay
County, Tenn.; was one of four sons and five daughters born to John and
Sarah (Wallace) Fraim, who were natives of Virginia, and among the
pioneers of Tennessee.  John Fraim suffered many hardships from the
Indians; he lost a sister by the burning of a fort in which they were
quartered.  He was a justice for thirty years in Tennessee; was a farmer
and miller, and of Irish descent; was also a soldier of 1812.  John M.
Fraim was reared on a farm and received a common school education.  He
was possessed of considesrable natural ability, and was one of the best
informed men of his day.  He located in Monroe County about 1834, where
he formed the acquaintance of Permelia A. Flippin, of Monroe County,
whom he married April 27, 1835.  She was a daughter of James Flippin,
who was a soldier of 1812, and one of the early pioneers of Monroe
County.  The town of Flippin was named in his honor.  Mr. Fraim had born
to him by this marriage seven children:  Marcus C., Sarah I., George T.,
Josa and Anga (twins), Lucy Neal (deceased), and James M.  When he first
came to Monroe County Mr. Fraim engaged in the mercantile business at
Flippin, and met with excellent success.  After a few years he moved on
a farm on Indian Creek, above Flippin,and engaged in farming and stock
trading with wonderful success.  After a few years he moved on a farm on
Indian Creek, above Flippin, and engaged in farming and stock trading
with wonderful success.  He was a man of strong constitution and iron
will, and generally made a success of whatever he undertook.  He had
acquired about 800 or 1,000 acres of land before the war, and about
thirty negroes.  When the war broke out he was bitterly opposed to
secession.  With a determined resolution he went to work, and was one of
the master-spirits in all this part of Kentucky inholding the people
together for the Union.  He raised the Ninth Kentucky, camped them on
his farm and called it Camp Anderson; went with the regiment to
Columbia, at which place he became a government contractor; was captured
by the Confederates near Columbia, and carried prisoner to Nashville,
Tenn., where he was released and immediately returned home.  One night
he was shot in the breast by a band of guerillas; after he had fallen,
one of them, to complete the work of death, placed a revolver at his
head and fired what he supposed to be the fatal shot.  Mr. Fraim, under
cover of the darkness, threw his a little to one side, and the ball
missed its mark.  By the light of a lamp or fire he was able to make his
way to a house at Jamestown, where he was carefully tended, and in a few
days was taken to Glasgow by a company of men sent from that place by
Col. Graham. There he was well cared for and recovered.  He had given
the strongest impulse to the cause of the Union of any man in southern
Kentucky.  His sons (who were old enough) and sons-in-law entered the
army.  January 10, 1866, his wife died, and October 10, 1875 he married
Nettie Parham, of Monroe County, a native of Knox County, Tenn.  She is
a daughter of Thomas D. and Catharine E. (Rudder) Parham, who were born
near Grandville, N. C., and in Greene County, Tenn., respectively.  Her
father was a saddler by trade, immigrated to Monroe County, and located
near Flippin in December, 1867.  He was a son of Edmond Parham, who
maried Sarah Bearden.  They were born and reared in Knox County, Tenn.
Mrs. Catharine E. (Rudden) Parham was a daughter of Robert Rudder, who
married a Miss Cooper, and were natives respectively of east Tennessee
and New Jersey.  Robert was a soldier of 1812; he emigrated to middle
Tennessee; during the late war moved to Illinois for safety; was a
strong Union man. The Cooper family were partly of Indian descent.  John
M. Fraim died March 31, 1882; he had accumulted upward of $70,000, and
about 2,000 acres of land, besides considerable government securities.
His first business transaction was the finding of a swarm of bees which
he traded to his father for a hog; he then sold this hog back to his
father for the cash, and from that time on was never without money.  He
was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and he and wife were members of
the Grange.  They were members of the Christian Church, of which Mrs.
Fraim is still a member.  In politics Mr. Fraim was an active
Republican.

Bearden Cooper Flippin Fraim Graham Neal Parham Rudder
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Clay-TN Columbia-Adair Grandville-NC Green-TN IL Jackson-TN Jamestown-
Russell Knox-TN Nashville-TN NJ VA

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