Elmore County AlArchives Biographies.....Freeman, James F. 1837 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    JAMES F. FREEMAN, master mechanic in the Tallassee Falls manufacturing
company, was born at Fort Decatur, Montgomery county, in 1837, while his father
was fighting the Indians. The women and children were huddled together in the
fort for protection against the common enemy. His parents were Littleberry
Freeman and Frances (Malone) Free-man, born near Augusta, Ga., in 1804 and 1807,
respectively. When their son was a year old they came to Alabama, settling first
in Montgomery county and then in Tallapoosa, where Mr. Freeman died in 1847,
while yet a young man. He was the son of James F. Freeman, a Virginian of
English descent, who came to Alabama as a young man. The maternal grandfather,
James Malone, was a Georgian by birth, and a farmer of Irish descent. Mr.
Freeman's mother died about 1870, a Primitive Baptist, and was the mother of
eight children, as follows : Rebecca, widow of Daniel Gunter, a soldier in the
late war, who died in a northern prison; Rhoda Ann, deceased wife of Warren
Harris; James F.; Sarah, deceased wife of J. H. Lillie; William G., of Atlanta,
Ga.; Mary Susan, wife of Daniel Jackson, of South Corolina; Littleberry B., died
at Richmond in the late war; Millard Fillmore, of Brownsville, Ga. The death of
Mr. Freeman's father occurring when the former was only a child of ten years,
the main support of the family devolved upon him, thus depriving him of an
opportunity for a good education. Soon after the death of the father, the family
removed to Tallassee, where the boy went to work in the factory at $4.00 per
month, so that from his boyhood he has been connected with the factory in some
capacity. He went through all the various departments, in the meantime learning
the machinist trade, and after the war was made master mechanic of the works,
which position he now holds, and by economy and steady business habits he has
acquired a neat fortune, in the way of a farm of 540 acres, well stocked, and a
corn and flour mill. In 1859 he married Miss Louisa Ellen, daughter of James
Graves, and they are the parents of twelve children, of whom seven survive, as
follows: William G.; Mary Susan, wife of T. J. Hilyer, an attorney of Opelika;
John D.; Fannie E., wife of Thos J. Redden; David Ames; Addle Clara and Anna
Laura, twins. Mr. Freeman and his children are Methodists, and he is a Mason,
having held various offices in Dorrick lodge, No. 406. He also belongs to the
Improved Order of Red Men.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 936
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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