The Freeman Family of Custer City, Pennsylvania

(II) Edmund (2) Freeman

Edmund (2), eldest son of Edmund (1) Freeman (q. v.), the emigrant, was born in England, died March 29, 1673. He resided in Sandwich and for seven years represented that town in the general court. He married (first) Rebecca, daughter of Governor Thomas Prence, by his first wife, Patience Brewster, daughter of Elder William Brewster, of “The Mayflower.”

Children

1. Rebecca.
2. Margaret.
3. Edmund. Of whom further.
4. Alice.
5. Rachel.
6. Sarah.
7. Deborah.

(III) Edmund (3) Freeman

Edmund (3), son of Edmund (2) Freeman, was born October 5, 1655, died May 18, 1720. He married Sarah, mentioned in his will.

Children, all born in Sandwich

1. Edmund. Of whom further.
2. Benjamin.
3. Mary.
4. John.
5. Thomas.
6. Joseph.
7. William.
8. Sarah.
9. Isaac.

(IV) Edmund (4) Freeman

Edmund (4), son of Edmund (3) Freeman, was born August 30, 1683, died June 1, 1766. He moved from Sandwich to the state of Connecticut, settling in Mansfield, where he died. He married Kezia Pressbury, who died in Mansfield, April 20, 1764, aged seventy-seven years.

Children

1. Edmund. Died young.
2. Lydia. Married Benjamin Nye.
3. Edmund. Of whom further.
4. Prence. Married (first) Ruth Hall, (second) Elizabeth Stetson, (third) Rebecca Johnston.
5. Stephen. Married Hannah Jenkins.
6. Silvanus. Married Mary Dunham.
7. Nathaniel. Married Martha Dunham.
8. Keziah. Married (first) Snow, (second) — Shaw.
9. Sarah. Married Malachi Conant.
10. Deborah. Married Zachariah Paddock.
11. Skeefe. Married Anna Sargeant.
12. Thomas. Died young.
13. Abigail. Married William Johnson.
14. Margaret. Died young.

(V) Edmund (5) Freeman

Edmund (5), son of Edmund (4) Freeman, was born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, September 30, 1711. He graduated from Harvard College in 1733, taught school, and in 1741 or 1742 moved to Mansfield, Connecticut. He married, August 7, 1736, Martha Otis.

Children

1. Edmund. Of whom further.
2. Nathaniel. Died young.
3. Nathaniel. Twice married.
4. Abigail. Married Aaron Harvey.
5. Jonathan. Married Sarah Huntington.
6. Otis. Married Ruth Bicknell.
7. Russell. Married Abia Denkee.
8. Moody. Married Kezia Freeman.
9. Frederick. Married (first) Abigail Thompson, (second) Abigail Dimmick.
10. Martha. Married Roger Harvey.

(VI) Edmund (6) Freeman

Edmund (6), son of Edmund (5) Freeman, was born in 1737 in Dennis, Massachusetts, removed to Mansfield, Connecticut, thence to Hanover, New Hampshire. He was first known as “Captain,” then “Colonel” Freeman, and commanded a company in the revolution. He died in Lebanon, New Hampshire, August 6, 1813. He married (first) Sarah Porter, died September 13, 1777, (second) Mrs. Theoda (Porter) Esterbrook, widow of John Esterbrook, of Lebanon.

Children, first five by first wife

1. Sarah. Married Daniel Wright.
2. Edmund. Of whom further.
3. Otis. Married Theoda Capron.
4. Nathaniel. Married Martha Hall.
5. John Porter. Married (first) Martha Larkins, (second) Rachel R. Nye.
6. Theoda. Born April 4, 1779, died unmarried.
7. Joseph. Married (first) Nancy Estabrook, (second) Sally Hopkins.
8. Luther. Married (first) Roxanna Spence, and a second and third wife.

(VII) Edmund (7) Freeman

Edmund (7), son of Edmund (6) Freeman, was born in Connecticut, August 29, 1764. He moved to New Hampshire and to Hartland, Vermont; was captain in the war of 1812 and major of militia. He married Zilpah Poole.

Children

1. Edmund. Of whom further.
2. Zilpah. Died August, 1813.
3. Sarah. Married Rev. Jacob Scales.
4. John.
5. Elizabeth. Married Parmalee.
6. Theoda.
7. Otis.
8. Louisa.
9. Russell.

(VIII) Edmund (8) Freeman

Edmund (8), son of Edmund (7) Freeman, was born in Vermont, January 13, 1793, died in Custer City, Pennsylvania, March 4, 1853. After his marriage he settled in McKean county, Pennsylvania, where he followed agriculture. He married, February 14, 1822, Elizabeth Chadwick, of New Jersey, born April 21, 1799, died July 1, 1882, daughter of Elihu Chadwick, a revolutionary soldier of early New England and English ancestry.

Children

1. Edmund Allen. Born March 16, 1823, died unmarried, February 18, 1840, at Custer City.
2. William Chadwick. Of whom further.
3. Sabra Calista. Born January 15, 1827, died July 5, 1865, unmarried.
4. Dr. Silvanus D. Born January 29, 1829, died August 9, 1894; he was a graduate of the medical department of the University of Buffalo, 1856, and began the practice of medicine in Smithport, Pennsylvania, continuing until the civil war, when he went to the front as surgeon of the Pennsylvania “Bucktails,” Forty-second Regiment, Colonel Kane; in October, 1862, surgeon to the United States Volunteers, continuing until the war closed; he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, and resumed practice until the Mexican trouble of 1876, when he was sent to Mexico as correspondent for the committee on foreign relations; on returning he again took up his profession, practicing until his death; he stood high in the profession, was a member of the county, state and national medical societies, prominent in the Grand Army of the Republic, and a thirty-second degree Mason; he married, January 24, 1855, Lucretia A. Reisdorph, now deceased; three children: Kate, married Frank Taylor, of Smithport; child, Bessie, married Dr. Hamilton; Ella, married H. C. Wells; Bessie Kane, deceased.
5. Mary Jeffrey. Born March 7, 1831, died at Custer City, January, 1840.
6. Melinda Corbit. Born March 18, 1833, married, April 30, 1856, Maynard Inglesby, a farmer at Minard Run, Pennsylvania; child, Maynard Jr.
7. Francis Hallock. Born December 6, 1836, died June 14, 1908; he was a blacksmith and served throughout the entire civil war in a Pennsylvania regiment, working at his trade; he married, June 14, 1876, Liza Augusta Wood, who survives him, living in Michigan.
8. Mary Elizabeth. Born May 13, 1840, deceased; married David Brown, of Custer City, Pennsylvania, a miller, who survives her, and with son Miles, resides in Minard Run.

(IX) William Chadwick Freeman

William Chadwick, son of Edmund (8) Freeman, was born in Custer City, McKean county, Pennsylvania, August 17, 1824, died on his farm there, June 24, 1855. He was educated in the public school, and on finishing his studies at once began farming, a business he followed without interruption all his active life. He owned a good farm on which his daughter, Effie E., now resides. He was a member and trustee of the United Brethren church, and a Republican. He married, June 24, 1855, Mary Catherine Hammond, born in Herkimer county, New York, June 18, 1829, died in Custer City, December 10, 1911, daughter of Simon Hammond, who came to Custer City when a boy and spent his life on the farm that he inherited from his father, dying at Degolia, 1871. He married Harriet Frazee, who died in Vermillion, South Dakota, in 1886.

Their children

1. Cyrus. Died at Bolivia, McKean county, Pennsylvania.
2. Eleasor. Died in Ohio.
3. Mary Catherine. Of previous mention.
4. Henry. A veteran of the civil war (Pennsylvania Bucktails), now living in Los Angeles, California.
5. Cynthia. Residing in Vermillion, South Dakota.
6. Susan. Died at Lewis Run, Pennsylvania.
7. Hannah. Died young.

Children of William Chadwick Freeman

1. Effie Evangeline. Of whom further.
2. William Henry. Born in Custer City, October 30, 1858; a merchant of Emporium, Cameron county, Pennsylvania; he married Rose Russell, of Emporium, Pennsylvania; children: Floyd, born in Sherman, New York; Russell, in Emporium.

(X) Effie Evangeline Freeman

Effie Evangeline, only daughter of William Chadwick Freeman, was born in Bradford township (now Custer City), August 13, 1856. She received a public school education. She is a member of the United Brethren church of Custer City. She married, September 9, 1880, Thomas Eugene Evans, of Welsh and New England ancestry, born in West Valley, Cattaraugus county, New York, March 8, 1854, son of Benjamin Evans, born in Massachusetts, January 1, 1814, took up a farm in Cattaraugus county at an early date and died there March 19, 1884. He was a Republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married, March 4, 1844, Sarah Conrad, born April 1, 1826, near Syracuse, New York, died at Phoenix, New York, June 13, 1885.

Their children

1. Benjamin Franklin. Born February 26, 1845, died in Ashford, New York, June 18, 1871, unmarried.
2. Jerome D. Born November 21, 1851, married Chloe Proctor, born July 4, 1878, deceased.
3. Thomas Eugene. Of further mention.
4. Mary Evangeline. Born January 1, 1859, died in the west in 1889; married John Off, born in Germany.
5. Angeline. Born January 8, 1862, died January 15, 1874.

Thomas Eugene Evans was educated in the public schools of Ashford, New York, and the United Brethren Seminary at Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania. He studied with a particular view to the ministry and was regularly ordained a minister of the United Brethren church. He was pastor of the church of that denomination at Bradford, Pennsylvania, one year; at Machias, New York, one year; at Port Allegany, McKean county, three years; at Eldred, McKean county, one year; at Sugar Grove, Warren county, three years; at Findlay Lake, New York, one year; at Degolia, Pennsylvania, three years; at Sartwell Creek, McKean county, three years; at Farmers’ Valley, McKean county, one year; at Custer City, one year; at Sartwell, New York, one year, and at Diamond, Venango county, three years. At all these charges he served his people acceptably and left behind him a record of faithful and Christian effort. In 1893 he was compelled by circumstances to abandon regular ministerial work to take charge of the old homestead farm of his father-in-law, William Chadwick Freeman, which he has since conducted, and on which the family now resides. Mr. Evans is also engaged in photographic work. Child of Thomas E. and Effie E. (Freeman) Evans, Bessie May, born February 13, 1889, residing with her parents.

See: Genealogy of the Allegheny Valley Pennsylvania

Source

Jordan, J. W. 1840-1921. (1913). Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co.

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