Surname Saturday~Lewis Freeman-Margaret Purvis

On page 104 of the St. David's Parish Register we find - 1853, March 23 at the residence of John Parr, Lewis Freeman and Marr Parr, both of this district.¹

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For many years it has been my belief that Lewis L. Freeman, son of Lewis Freeman and Sarah Jane Davis Freeman married Marr/Mary Parr. ²


But, in late November 2014 I was contacted by Thom Sloan and he had some additional information on the wife of Lewis L. Freeman. In our correspondence he  informed me that “Lewis Freeman was married to Margaret [Frances] Purvis, who was the older sister of my great, great grandfather, William A. Purvis. It appears Margaret lived in South Carolina part of one year in 1850 with the John Parr family, and moved back to Miss. to be counted in the census there. She married Lewis Freeman in 1860 and they had six children.” ^{3 3A 4}




Lewis L. Freeman was born 27 February 1832, the 3rd born child of Jesse Freeman and Sarah Jane Davis Freeman. He married Margaret Frances Purvis in 1860. ⁵

On 21 December 1861 he enlisted into Company E of the 21st Regiment SC Infantry.  He was captured near Petersburg, Virginia  and became a POW on 24 June 1864. He was confined at Point Lookout in Maryland and from there transferred to Elmira, New York in August 1864. He was exchanged on October 29, 1864.⁶




Lewis L. Freeman and Margaret Frances Purvis had the following children: ^{7 8}

i. Sarah Jane "Sallie" Freeman, born 5 Jul 1861, Inman, Spartanburg, South Carolina; married David Glen Lawson; died 6 Nov 1944, Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina.
ii. Lewis Freeman, born 11 Nov 1864, South Carolina; married Ella Mathis; died 4 Jan 1930, Converse, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
iii. Flora L. Freeman, born 5 Sep 1866, Rutherford County, North Carolina; married Richard Francis Daniel; died 25 Nov 1954, Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
iv. Nancy Loretta "Nannie" Freeman, born 4 Sep 1869, Rutherford, North Carolina; married John Montjoy; married John Lizah Robbins, 1883; married Marion Columbus Barnett, 1897; married John Calvin Farmer, 1903; died 30 Nov 1953, Laurens, Laurens, South Carolina.
v. John Freeman was born in 1872 in South Carolina. He died after 1900 at the age of 28.
vi. Thomas Clemen Freeman, born 17 Mar 1875, North Carolina; married Naomi Kirby; died 7 Jun 1951, Pacolet, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Lewis L. Freeman died in 20 January 1898 and is buried in the Pacolet First Baptist Church Cemetery; Pacolet, Spartanburg County, South Carolina.9 Margaret Frances Purvis Freeman died 14 July 1930 and is buried New Zion United Methodist Church cemetery, Laurens, South Carolina.


 
 
 
 
 
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[1] Brent H. Holcomb C.A.L.S., St. David's Parish, South Carolina Minutes of the Vestry 1768-1832,: Parish Register 1819-1924 (Greenville, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1991), page 104.
[2] 1850 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page: 134B/135A; Line 33, Dwelling 560, Family 560, Household of Jesse FREEMAN; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 12 June 2012); citing National Archives Microfilm M432 Roll 851.
[3] 1850 U. S. Census, DeSoto County, Mississippi, population schedule, Southern Division, DeSoto County, Mississippi; Roll: M432_371, , Page: 313A(stamped); Line 20, Dwelling 4, Family 4, Household of John ROGERS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : Viewed 29 November 2014); citing National Archives Microfilm M432 Roll 371.
[3A] E-mail from Thom Sloan, dated 29 November 2014.
[4] 1850 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Population Schedule, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page 108B(stamped), Line 28, Dwelling 156, Family 156, Household of John PARR.
[5] 1850 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page: 134B/135A; Line 33, Dwelling 560, Family 560, Household of Jesse FREEMAN; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 12 June 2012); citing National Archives Microfilm M432 Roll 851.
[6] Ancestry, "Civil War Service Records" database, Military Service Records (http://www.fold3.com/ : accessed 18 July 2012), entry for Lewis L. FREEMAN, private; 21st SC Volunteers Infantry; Confederate.
[7] 1880 U S Census, Union County, South Carolina, population schedule, Bogansville, Union County, South Carolina, enumeration district (ED) 151, Page: 443B(stamped); Line 16, Dwelling 272, Family 280, Household of Louis L. FREEMAN; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 30 November 2014); citing National Archive Microfilm T9, Roll 1242.
[8] 1900 U. S. Census, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, population schedule, Pacolet, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, enumeration district (ED) 0092, Page: 10B/325 (stamped); Line 72, Dwelling 188, Family 197, Household of Louis FREEMAN; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : viewed 30 November 2014); citing National Archives Microfilm  T623_1541.
[9] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 2 December 2014); Memorial page for L. L. Freeman; (27 February 1832–20 January 1898); Find a Grave memorial # 48414026, Citing Pacolet First Baptist Church Cemetery; Pacolet, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA.
[10] Margaret Freeman, death certificate 012427 (14 July 1930), Vital Records, Department of Health and Environmental Control, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina.