She was a granddaughter of Dr. Robert and Frances (Weisinger) Hood, of Cahaba, Alabama, the former a Confederate soldier who died during the Civil War with pneumonia, the latter, a descendant of Lawrence Washington, and of Dr. Henry and Amanda (Talmadge) McKenzie, the former a graduate of the Transylvania University and one of the first settlers of Talladega.

She was a great-great-granddaughter of Kenneth and Christie McKenzie, of Scotland, and of Campbell and Tabitha (Dulaney) Washburn, the former an American Revolutionary War soldier, and of Berry and Ann Tyson, of Moore County, North Carolina.

[4] Frasier graduated from the Talladega high school in 1901, and from Judson College, Marion (degree and teaching certification, 1903).

[1] Of Things That Are Mine (1923), a reviewer of Pearson's Magazine stated, "Scottie McKenzie ... has produced a volume of free verse unadulterated by music, imagination, or any other quality of poetry.

"[11] A Bookman reviewer was equally critical of the work:— "In Things That Are Mine (Steen Hinrichsen) Scottie McKenzie Frasier trills cheerfully and unabashedly over a few slurred and time worn poetic roundelays.

Like the indefatigable robin - which bird might be called her mascot, so often does she wear it on her shoulder - Mrs. Frasier's song is yellow billed and trite, verging on the quack, bare of distinction save for an occasional felt word or phrase.

One feels that the author, like the robin, is too busy being assertive to listen to the secret stilly singing whence proceeds real creation.