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Kizziah Elizabeth McLemore

Kizziah Elizabeth McLemore

Female 1845 - 1924  (78 years)

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  • Name Kizziah Elizabeth McLemore  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Birth 1 Dec 1845  Perry County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Gender Female 
    Death 16 Mar 1924  Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Burial Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I26002  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 22 Apr 2016 

    Father John T. McLemore,   b. 8 Mar 1817, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Nov 1862, Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years) 
    Mother Agnes Smith,   b. Abt 1821, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1849, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 29 years) 
    Marriage 22 Mar 1836  Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • Larry Kingsley and Mark Freeman also show three additional children born to this family, Isaac (8 July 1839), Nancy (23 Oct 1842), and Josh McLemore, born on 21 Apr 1848 and married Allie HARRIGAL. He is not listed on the 1860 census with his family, however.
    Family ID F8640  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family John Thomas Freeman, Sr.,   b. 26 Aug 1835, Bladen County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Jun 1917, Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Marriage 14 Mar 1861  Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Quinna Cooper has a copy of a letter John wrote his wife Kizziah during the Civil War, and she provided the transcription below:

      Washington, Adams , County
      August 11, 1862

      Dear Wife:

      As we have stopt hear for awhile I thought I would write you afew lines to let you now that I am well. Hoping htese few lines may find you and little Emeley well. I suppose you have heard that we are moving to Port Hudson. Their is wehre we was ordered but since we have bin.....Clinton, La so if.........to me and don't send it by hand get Mr. Wade to back your letter for youu and he will now how to back it write. I will write to you as soon as I get their and so I don't thinkg you need to write till you hear from me again unless you can send it by Kirk Hall or someone else. My Dear I expect you will be troubled about this move but I don't think you need for I think it will be helthaer their then where we have bin. My Dear you don't have any idy how bad I want to see you and the baby. I dream of your every night and it makes me vary uneasey for I am so feared that something will happne to you of the Baby but I hope that God will protect you for you now that he has promised that he will be a father to the fatherless and a husband to the widdow and I suppose you are nearly a widdow now while I am gone but I hope the time is near at had when I wuill return home to stay with you and little Emeley and I hope we may live like we have lived before. My Dear their is one thing I would like to know whither you have weaned little Emeley or not or whither you will have to wean her or not. My reason for that is what we were talking about when I was at home. My Dear I want you to take good care of little Emeley for she is the dearest think in the world except you. It is now use for me to try to tell you how well I love your for I can't do it. My Dear I have some money that I wish you had but I don't now how you will get hit unless I can send it by some boddy coming home for it is not safe to send it by male and I now I can't.....come home if you need anything let me now and I will help you. Nothing more at present. Only remain your husband till death. John T. Freeman to his wife Kissiah Freeman. My Love is ever bright and true. Good By Love.
    Children 
     1. Emily Rebecca Freeman,   b. 7 Jan 1862, Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Mar 1890 (Age 28 years)
     2. John Thomas Freeman, Jr.,   b. 24 Jul 1864, Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Jun 1922, Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years)
     3. William Joel Freeman,   b. 1 Apr 1865, Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Feb 1945, Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
     4. Ephraim Hester Freeman,   b. 14 Jun 1868, Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Mar 1929, Norwood, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
     5. Eudora Virginia Freeman,   b. 12 Mar 1870, Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Jan 1896 (Age 25 years)
     6. James Lafayette Freeman,   b. 21 Jun 1871, Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Oct 1875, Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 4 years)
     7. Zach Granger Freeman,   b. 5 Apr 1874, Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Sep 1875, Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 1 year)
     8. Josiah Vardimen Freeman,   b. 14 Nov 1875, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Nov 1938, Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
     9. Alice Edwena Freeman,   b. 4 Feb 1878, Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Jun 1956, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
     10. D.W. Jones Freeman,   b. 26 Feb 1880, Copiah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Aug 1881 (Age 1 year)
     11. Mattie Kizziah Freeman,   b. 4 Jul 1881, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     12. Charles E. Hooker Freeman,   b. 6 Oct 1883, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Feb 1888 (Age 4 years)
    Family ID F8642  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 11 Jul 2014 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1 Dec 1845 - Perry County, Mississippi Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 14 Mar 1861 - Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Mississippi Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 16 Mar 1924 - Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi Link to Google Earth
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    McLemore, Kezziah Elizabeth of Perry County, Mississippi
    McLemore, Kezziah Elizabeth of Perry County, Mississippi
    Born to John T. McLemore and Agnes Smith, whose mother (Nancy Vinnie Baptiste) was said to have been a Native American. She married in Hazlehurst, Copiah, Mississippi to John Thomas Freeman. They later lived in Franklin County, where they were buried at the town of Hamburg.

  • Sources 
    1. [S524] McLemore, Rev. William Pearman--Family Archivist, 5116 W Malibu Court McHenry, IL 60050.

    2. [S511] Makerney, April (amakerney@yahoo.com) "Ancestors of April (Wharton) Makerney and Connected Families" Ver. 2009-07-12 ; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=amakerney.

    3. [S321] Freeman, Mark (mwfgenealogy@verizon.net) "Mostly Southern" http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=markfreeman ; Ver. 2008-09-19 17:51:13.

    4. [S144] 1850 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005, (Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432, 1,009 rolls. This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1850 United States Federal Census, the Seventh Census of the United States. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, age as of the census day, sex, color; birthplace, occupation of males over age fifteen, and more. No relationships were shown between members of a household. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1850 Federal Census.), Mississippi, Perry County Enumerated 28 Sept 1850 132-132 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S98] 1860 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004., (Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1,438 rolls. This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1860 United States Federal Census, the Eighth Census of the United States. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, age as of the census day, sex, color; birthplace, occupation of males over age fifteen, and more. No relationships were shown between members of a household. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1860 Federal Census.), Mississippi, Copiah County, Enumerated 1 Oct 1860 by E.A. Peyton Page 150/Page 151 #1040-1049 (Reliability: 3).