History of the Freeman Family: Including Six Generations (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from History of the Freeman Family: Including Six Generations

The first history of the Freeman family, written in the year 1894, was read before the assemblage at the Freeman family reunion, which took place at Fountain Park, Champaign Co., Ohio, on the first day of September, 1894. That was the first regular re union held by the Freeman family, and they have also been held annually to the present time. The history had been written partly for that occasion, and partly as a souvenir to be presented to one of our cousins, who was so very young when his father died, that he knew. But little about his ancestors, and he had occasionally asked me about them, as I was older than he; therefore, I wrote a little history, so he could read it for himself. Since that time a number of the family relatives have expressed a desire to obtain the history and thereby become more definitely acquainted with the existence of their 'people. Consequently, the author, later, undertook the work of revising and enlarging the first history. Then the,idea presented itself to us, that it might be expedient to pre pare the history for publication, if at any time it should be deemed worth while to make of it a printed book, thus giving all an oppor tunity of gaining some knowledgeconcerning their ancestors, and the names, and whereabouts of the relatives as they have descended in line through the difierent generations, also the number of descend ants in the last five generations. The first three generations of the six, have all passed away, so faras our branch of the Freeman family is concerned. Besides myself, the're is no other one of the fourth generation who had the opportunity to learn much of the history of our ancestors, even had they. Taken an interest therein, for I was born in'my grandparents' house, and my parents always lived in part of their home until I Was about seventeen years old; with the exception of two and a_h_alf years, when I was a small girl.. My grandmother always took delight in giving me the family history on her own side, and grandfather's also, as far as she knew, and I was fond of hearing about relatives whom I harl never seen or known of, and I remember a great deal that she told me, besides what I knew myself; but I.have forgotten many items that would have been of interest in our history.

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