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John Thomas Freeman, Sr.

Male 1835 - 1917  (81 years)


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  • Name John Thomas Freeman  [1, 2
    Suffix Sr. 
    Birth 26 Aug 1835  Bladen County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Death 23 Jun 1917  Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Burial Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Notes 
    • John Thomas Freeman served in the Confederate Army after the birth of his daughter Emily, in Co. "C" Capt. Brown's 7 Stars Mississippi Artillery. He was captured, but was paroled or escaped within days. His captor and he were both said to be Masons. He served until the end of the war, and received a pension in his old age from the State of Mississippi for his service.

      He was a planter, and he moved his family from Copiah Co., MS (Barlow community) to Franklin Co., MS (Hamburg, MS), where some descendants live in the area in 2002. Reunion of his descendants held 2nd Saturday in June almost every year in Hamburg. He owned a store, and his property was used for cotton farming. John Thomas Freeman died 23 June 1917, and is buried in Mt. Carmel Cemetery, located two miles east of Hamburg, MS. This town is not on the state-issued highway map in 1995, but is shown on most published atlas maps of Mississippi.

      Copied from the RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Smith Family of GA, MS and LA. Merritt D. Mullen, submitter, mmullen8014@mchsi.com

    • (Research):

      Census Information:

      1870 Census
      Mississippi, Copiah County, Twp 9-10 West of RR, Post Office Hazelhurst
      Enumerated 2 August 1870 by O.H. Johnston
      Page 113, Stamped 349
      HH 811-797
      Moses and Eliza McLemore
      HH 812-798
      Carter, Caroll Johnson and Juriah (McLemore)
      813-799
      Freeman, John 34 M W Farmer $700 $700 NC
      Freeman, Kisiah 24 F W Keeping House Miss
      Freeman, Emily R 8 F W Miss
      Freeman, John T 6 M W Miss
      Freeman, William 4 M W Miss
      Freeman, Ephraim 2 M W Miss
      Freeman, Infant 2/12 F W Miss
      HH 814-800
      Joseph and Elmira Fairchild


      1880 Census

      Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
      J. T. FREEMAN Self M Male W 43 NC Farmer NC NC
      Kesiah FREEMAN Wife M Female W 34 MS Keeping House MS MS
      E. R. FREEMAN Dau S Female W 18 MS At Home NC MS
      J. T. FREEMAN Son S Male W 15 MS Farm Hand NC MS
      W. J. FREEMAN Son S Male W 14 MS Farm Hand NC MS
      E. H. FREEMAN Son S Male W 12 MS Farm Hand NC MS
      D. V. FREEMAN Dau S Female W 10 MS At Home NC MS
      Josiah FREEMAN Son S Male W 4 MS NC MS
      A. E. FREEMAN Dau S Female W 2 MS NC MS
      D. J. FREEMAN Son S Male W 4M MS NC MS
      M. L. MC LEMORE BroL Male W 18 MS Farm Laborer MS MS
      Source Information: Census Place Rose Hill, Copiah, Mississippi
      Family History Library Film 1254645 NA Film Number T9-0645
      Page Number 18C

      And ALSO listed on the 1880 census as follows:

      Census Place: Beat 4, Copiah, Mississippi
      Roll: 646; Family History Film: 1254646; Page: 210A
      Enumeration District: 024; Image: 0061
      Enumerated 7 June 1880
      ..Melba Gene McLemore notes that all the names on this census page have crossed out line by line...
      Thomas J. Freeman 46
      Kiziah Freeman 34
      Emily Rebecca Freeman 18
      John Thomas Freeman 16
      William Joel Freeman 14
      Ephram Hester Freeman 12
      Dora V. Freeman 10
      Josiah Hester Freeman 4
      Dudley Jones Freeman 9m
      Moses Mclemor 18 Brother in law
      Alice Freeman 3
    Person ID I26003  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father William Freeman,   b. 9 Mar 1815, Bladen County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1849, Bladen County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years) 
    Mother Amelia Hester,   b. Abt 1820, Bladen County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1860, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 41 years) 
    Family ID F8837  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Kizziah Elizabeth McLemore,   b. 1 Dec 1845, Perry County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Mar 1924, Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 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 - 26 Aug 1835 - Bladen County, North Carolina Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 14 Mar 1861 - Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Mississippi Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 23 Jun 1917 - 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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  • Sources 
    1. [S524] McLemore, Rev. William Pearman--Family Archivist, 5116 W Malibu Court McHenry, IL 60050.

    2. [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.