Coweta-Elbert-Franklin County GaArchives Bible Records.....White/Freeman Family Bible Copyright Date May 25 2003 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Robert C. Johnston, Jr. rcj@elmore.rr.com May 25, 2003, 11:09 am White/Freeman Bible, Newnan, Coweta Co., GA Letter from Ettie Tidwell McCall (Mrs. Howard H. McCall, Sr.) – Atlanta – to NSDAR Registrar General in regards to a DAR Membership Application submitted by Virginia Freeman Jacobs Eden of Atlanta; Stamped by DAR “May 28, 1953”. Letter located in Loose DAR file of “Thomas White b. 1745” at DAR Library, Washington, D.C. Transcribed by Robert C. Johnston, Jr. on May 25, 2003. (Note: Though the said bible record matches the dates found on tombstones in Newnan, GA, the Genealogical information on Thomas White, father of Henry White, is not correct and was confused with another person of the like name in the same county at the same time frame. Please verify and properly document all the information about Thomas White, Rev War Soldier, before sending to DAR or SAR. Robert Johnston, Wetumpka, AL (rcj@elmore.rr.com)) Page 1 From statement made by Mrs. Virginia Eloise (Freeman) Jacobs, widow of Edwin Gustavus Jacobs, of 318 Vineville Ave, Macon Ga. And now living in the old Freeman home in Newnan, Ga. (letter) “That the Family Bible was in the possioner of her sister, Annie (Freeman) Orr, (Mrs. Sylvanus? G. Orr of Newnan, Ga.) after her parents death, and that she copied the following records from this Bible; which was the Family Bible of her grandparents, Samuel Freeman and his wife, Sarah Ann Virginia White. Henry White was born in Orange Co., Va. 20th Day of April 1778, died Sept. 16 – 1842 in Elbert Co., Ga. (He was my g-grandfather.) Mary Streshley Starke was born in Hanover Co., Va. 30th Day of April 1779, died July 12, 1851 Newnan, Ga. Henry White and Mary S. Starke were married in Hanover Co., Va. Feb. 28, 1805. My grand-parents recorded in Bible: Sarah Ann Virginia White was born Aug. 1 – 1815 Elbert Co., Ga.; died Newnan, Ga May 29, 1889 Samuel Freeman, Jr. was born Schenectady New York, died Feb. 4, 1891 Newnan, Ga. Page 2 Samuel Freeman Jr. and Sarah Ann Virginia White were married in Elbert Co., Ga. Sept. 21-1837. My Parents – Alvan Dean Freeman was born Mar. 15, 1842 at Carnesville, Ga., died Newnan, Ga. Oct. 11-1917. Eloise Clinton Hall was born Frankfort, Ky., died Newnan, Ga. June 14, 1841, died Newnan, Ga. Mar. 16 – 1889. Alvan Dean Freeman and Eloise Clinton Hall were married Oct. 28, 1869. Also in letter from: Miss Dora Freeman, of Greenville, Ga. Stating the same record as above – and copied from the same Family Bible also in possession of her first cousin Annie Freeman Orr. (who was the family genealogist and all the family went to her for information). Also that all the family were buried in the City Cemetery of Newnan and had handsome monuments, with the dates as in the Bible recorded on tomb- stones. “My father who was a brother of alvan Dean Freeman moved to Moreland, Ga. A few miles from Newnan, in Meriweather Co., Ga. Where I have lived since child-hood.” Page 3 In an article of Van’s Creek Church by Mrs. Z.? W. Copeland of Elberton, the names of Thomas White and his wife Sally White appear as members. This Van’s (Van Creek Church was the second Baptist Church organized in Ga., with Rev. Dozier Thorton, Organizer and first Pastor. I certify that these two letters contained the correct records found in the Family Bible, then in the possession of Annie Freeman Orr, dau of Alvan Dean Freeman of Newnan, Ga. By Mrs. Virginia Eloise Freeman, as 1st generation in Mrs. Eden’s papers, and her first cousin Miss Dora Freeman of Greenville, Ga. For Bible and tombstone records given in Mrs. Eden’s application for D.A.R. Membership, for Generations 2-3- and 4. Ettie Tidwell McCall (Mrs. Howard H. McCall Sr. Atlanta) This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb