John Thomas Freeman, Sr.

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

John married Kizziah Elizabeth McLemore on 14 Mar 1861 in Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Mississippi. Kizziah (daughter of John T. McLemore and Agnes Smith) was born on 1 Dec 1845 in Perry County, Mississippi; died on 16 Mar 1924 in Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi; was buried in Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
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.

1. Emily Rebecca Freeman was born on 7 Jan 1862 in Copiah County, Mississippi; died on 6 Mar 1890.
2. John Thomas Freeman, Jr. was born on 24 Jul 1864 in Copiah County, Mississippi; died on 21 Jun 1922 in Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi.
3. William Joel Freeman was born on 1 Apr 1865 in Copiah County, Mississippi; died on 19 Feb 1945 in Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi.
4. Ephraim Hester Freeman was born on 14 Jun 1868 in Copiah County, Mississippi; died on 13 Mar 1929 in Norwood, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.
5. Eudora Virginia Freeman was born on 12 Mar 1870 in Copiah County, Mississippi; died on 22 Jan 1896.
6. James Lafayette Freeman was born on 21 Jun 1871 in Copiah County, Mississippi; died on 1 Oct 1875 in Copiah County, Mississippi.
7. Zach Granger Freeman was born on 5 Apr 1874 in Copiah County, Mississippi; died on 30 Sep 1875 in Copiah County, Mississippi.
8. Josiah Vardimen Freeman was born on 14 Nov 1875 in Mississippi; died on 22 Nov 1938 in Hamburg, Franklin County, Mississippi.
9. Alice Edwena Freeman was born on 4 Feb 1878 in Copiah County, Mississippi; died on 23 Jun 1956 in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
10. D.W. Jones Freeman was born on 26 Feb 1880 in Copiah County, Mississippi; died on 22 Aug 1881.
11. Mattie Kizziah Freeman was born on 4 Jul 1881 in Mississippi; and died.
12. Charles E. Hooker Freeman was born on 6 Oct 1883 in Mississippi; died on 28 Feb 1888.

William married Amelia Hester. Amelia was born about 1820 in Bladen County, North Carolina; died after 1860 in Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The sister of Ephraim HESTER. She followed her brother to Copiah County, Mississippi after her husband was killed.