Frazarville was a community founded in 1857 by Dr. Isaac James Frazar and his father, Col. James Watson Frazar after a locust infestation and Comanche raids forced them to move from Cibolo Creek in Bexar County to a site just over the Wharton County line. Dr. Isaac James Frazar practiced medicine in Eagle Lake, and his son, James Azariah Frazar, developed Frazarville into several businesses that included a general store, cotton gin, and blacksmith shop. James Watson Frazar’s other son, George Watson Frazar, remained in Bexar County as sheriff and Texas Ranger. James Azariah Frazar also owned bank stock in Henrietta, Clay County, and when the bank began to fail in 1889, he moved his family to Henrietta to become its president. He served successfully for five years while continuing his interests in Frazarville until 1892. His sister, Annie Gertrude Frazar, and her descendents continued to own portions of the Frazarville property. Several family members are buried in the Frazar Family Cemetery near the site, including Isaac James Frazar, his wife, Almira Kimbro Frazar, and Annie Gertrude Frazar. The James Watson Frazar family was followed by brother Micajah Frazar and family to Matthews and Eagle Lake, where the Frazar Opera House was built. The Frazar ancestors originally arrived from Inverness, Scotland, to North Carolina in 1678, and their migration across the South to plantations in North Carolina, Alabama, later Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas exemplified many other Scottish journeys to Texas made in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.