 Little is known about his mother, Emeline Lamb Boutelle, but by 1871 she was married to E.F. Gordon and living with a daughter in Ontario.James Boutelle relocated to northern California in the 1850s, and lived with his sister, Susan Boutell Messenger Sterling, in Arcata.In 1873 Frazier married "Dollie", Mary Adolphine Augusto Hayden, at Vancouver, Washington.