Plumas-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Freeman, Joel E. 1836 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 11, 2006, 8:17 pm

Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

JOEL E. FREEMAN.—This gentleman is a native of Jefferson county, Tennessee,
where he was born January 9, 1836. In 1855 he went to Iowa, and engaged in
farming until the spring of 1859, then starting overland to California, arriving
in the fall, and settling in Sierra valley in the spring of 1860 on a farm of
640 acres, eight miles north of Sierraville. May 1, 1859. he was married to Miss
Virginia Cooksey of Franklin county, Indiana, by whom he has had six children,
as follows: Willis, born January 22, 1860; William, July 19, 1862 ; John,
October 13, 1863; Sarah, March 17, 1865; Thomas E., January 21, 1870; Charles
H., July 23, 1877. The eldest son, Willis, was married November 29, 1881, to
Miss Mary McElvoy of Sierra valley.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/plumas/bios/freeman337nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/

File size: 1.5 Kb