Margarette Snodgrass Frazier, Mar­ga­ret W. Snod­grass Fras­er
1856–1894

Introduction

Died: March 21, 1894.

Buried: Lake For­est Ce­me­te­ry, Lake For­est, Il­li­nois.

Biography

Margarette was the daugh­ter of John M. and Eliz­a­beth W. Snod­grass, and wife of Mel­vin Fras­er (1858–1936).

She was writ­ing hymns by 1878. By No­vem­ber 1884, she was liv­ing in Lake For­est, Il­li­nois (Smith), and had re­cent­ly mar­ried a Pres­by­te­ri­an min­is­ter named Fra­zier (Mel­vin Fras­er, per Find­a­grave).

The tomb­stone she shares with her hus­band says Mel­vin was a Mis­sion­ary to Af­ri­ca for 15 years. His Find­a­grave re­cord has a quote stat­ing he worked in Ca­mer­oon.

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Bear Ye One An­oth­er’s Bur­dens
  2. Come, Ye Little Child­ren
  3. Good Will
  4. Ho, Chris­tian, Be Thou Ac­tive
  5. How He Loves Us
  6. Jesus Christ To­day Doth Call
  7. Jesus, Make Us Pure and Spot­less
  8. Jesus, Thou Art Ev­er Love­ly
  9. Joy There Is in Ev­ery Sor­row
  10. Joy to the Wea­ry, Sore­ly Dis­tressed
  11. Little Ones, Lit­tle Ones
  12. O, Ye Brave and Vali­ant Heart­ed
  13. O Be Care­ful, Ever Care­ful
  14. Seed Is Sown, The
  15. Sing, if You Love Your Sav­ior
  16. Sing of Je­sus Our Mas­ter
  17. Sing of Je­sus Our Shep­herd
  18. Sing, O Sing, Lit­tle Ones
  19. Songs of Glad­ness and Thanks­giv­ing
  20. Suffer the Child­ren to Come to Me
  21. There’s a Glo­ri­ous In­vi­ta­tion
  22. This Is the Sweet­est Sto­ry
  23. Though Our Path­way May Be Drea­ry
  24. Under the Sha­dow of Thy Wing
  25. We’re a Band of Child­ren
  26. We’re All Lit­tle Sol­diers in the Bat­tle
  27. Why Am I Not a Chris­tian?
  28. Would You Tru­ly Fol­low Je­sus?

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