Biographical Sketch of James M. Freeman, Phelps County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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James M. Freeman, merchant at Relfe, was born October 20, 1837, in
Hamilton county, Tenn., and is the son of Britton and Elizabeth
(McMullen) Freeman.  Britton Freeman was born in Roane county, Tenn.,
in April, 1816, grew to manhood on a farm, and received his education
in the common schools.  He assisted largely in removing the Indians
from Georgia and Tennessee to the Indian Territory. His two brothers,
James and Thomas, served in the Mexican War, the former a captain and 
the latter a colonel.  Mr. Freeman immigrated to Missouri in 1848,
settling in Wright county, where he engaged in farming.  Here he died
in 1863.  During his life in Tennessee he was both colonel and major
of the State Militia.  He lost his wife in 1842, and three years later
married Miss Harriet A. Dyke of Tennessee.  By his first marriage, to
Miss Elizabeth McMullen, a native of Roane county, Tenn., he became
the father of three children, all living: James M., George W., and
Clemantine, wife of George W. Hickey, of Arkansas.  The second marriage
resulted in the birth of six children, three now living: William, John,
and Ellen, wife of F. E. McDonald.  Those deceased are Edward (who was
killed by the Indians in 1863), Dodson and Marion.  James M. Freeman
lived in Tennessee until eleven years of age, then immigrated to Miss-
ouri, and settled in Wright county, where he remained until twenty-six
years of age, receiving a common school education.  He worked for his
father until twenty years of age, then traded in stock for eight or
ten years, and in 1863 came to Missouri, settling in this county, near
St. James where he dealt in stock until 1866.  He then moved to the
place where he is now living, farmed for a year, and then engaged in 
the mercantile business, which he has since followed in connection with
his farming interests.  He was married in January, 1865, to Miss Martha
E. Coppedge, a native of Phelps county, Mo., and the daughter of Mr.
Lindsey L. and Amanda (Dodd) Coppedge.  Mr. Coppedge was a native of
Kentucky, and settled where Newburg, Mo., now stands in 1823, while the
Indians were still in the county.  To Mr. and Mrs. Freeman were born
three children, two now living: Mary E. (wife of John H. Rillmon) and
Loring L.  The one deceased was named Edward L.  During the war Mr.
Freeman served six months in the State Militia, Company G, Seventh
Missouri Regiment; was in the battle of Pea Ridge, and was discharged
at Van Buren, Ark.  He has been postmaster at Relfe, and has been a
notary public for three years.  He is the owner of 680 acres of land
in this county, 200 acres under cultivation.  He is a member of the
Masonic order, and is a stanch Democrat in his political views.

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