Census Sunday~Jesse Freeman, b. 1838

Jesse Freeman, b. 1838, son of Jesse Freeman and Sarah Jane Davis Freeman appears by name in two censuses; the 1850 and 1860 Censuses for Chesterfield County, South Carolina. You can see him listed below as Jesse, age 20 in his parents household. ^{1 2}



Also in the household is 2 year old Jane Brock, a granddaughter, whose parents are Jane Freeman and Benjamin Brock.³
 
This census was enumerated in August 1860 and we know from history that the Civil war started just a few months later in January 1861.
 
Sometime between August of 1860 and early 1862 Jesse married a young lady name Ann (LNU, Last name unknown ) and was enlisted on Jan 8, 1862 by Capt. B. T. Davis for 3 years of service in the Civil War. ⁴

Minnie Sanders Rivers in a “Family History Booklet” completed in the late 1920 states that:

MILITARY: CSA - Co. E, 21st. Regiment Infantry. Killed in action at Petersburg, Virginia in June 1864. Source of Info.: Rivers Family History by Minnie Sanders Rivers, pg. 12.

I did an extensive search to confirmed this death date and was unsuccessful with the Nation Park Service (NPS)  database, Fold3 and Johnson Hagood’s “Memoirs if the War of Secession. Not to be outdone I finally pulled out my History of the 21st SC Volunteers, by John V. Rigdon and found this: ^{5 6 7 8}
 


So Jesse Freeman died in the Civil War and never came home. After the War, his widow Ann married Joseph HALL. We know this from the 1880 census and from a “Bill of Complaint” filed at the death of Jesse Freeman, Sr. in July 1881.  Item 2, of Jesse’s will from this complaint reads: ^{9 10}

II. That the said Jessie Freeman left Surviving him as his heirs  at law and Distributees His Widow Mary Freeman and the following children to wit:
William Freeman Louis Freeman Christine Turnage the wife of Robert Turnage, Ann Hall the wife of Joseph Hall Elizabeth Poston the wife of Elisha Poston and your Complainants Mary Ann Wadsworth and Effie Purvis and also and <sic> granddaughter named Temple Parr, the wife of Samuel Parr who is a child of a daughter of testor named Jane  which said daughter of testator had been intermarried with one Benjamin Brock and predeceased her said father Jesse Freeman.
 
The Widow, Ann, was next found in the 1870 census where we learned that she and Jesse had a son, Jesse Coleman Freeman, b. 1862.¹¹ 

1870 CENSUS: Cole Hill, Chesterfield County, South Carolina; Roll:  M593_1491; Image: 91; Family History Library Film: 552990, Page 283A; Line 3, Dwelling 101, Family 101; Ann FREEMAN, female, age 25, born in SC and J. A. FREEMAN, male, age 8, born in SC.
 
But, by 1880, Ann has remarried, taking as her 2nd husband Joseph Hall. ¹²



We see that Ann had two sons prior to her marriage to Joseph Hall and that their first born, Barney, was born in 1876 suggesting that Ann LNU Freeman and Joseph Hall were married in 1875.  

From this union, Ann and Joseph had five additional children; three sons and two daughters. By 1900, Annie is a widower again living with her son Henry in her household and both using the surname – Freeman.¹³ 



Ann LNU Freeman Hall died 19 Jun 1925 in Richmond County, NC. After the death of her 2nd husband Joseph Hall, she reverted to using the Freeman surname. Her death certificate shows her father to be Jesse Freeman; this is an error. The surname and parents of Ann, wife of Lewis Freeman, Jr. and Joseph Hall is unknown.¹⁴
 
Note Jesse Freeman, Sr. had a daughter names Ann E. Freeman. Many a researcher has mixed these two individual up. Ann E. Freeman daughter of Jesse Sr. married Elisha Polson according to Jesse Sr. Will and she went by the name Elizabeth Poston.

Annie (LNU) Freeman Hall is buried in Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, Marlboro County, South Carolina.¹⁵




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[1] 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.
[2] 1860 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page 173B; Line 27, Dwelling 1123, Family 1122, Household of Jesse FREEMAN; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 2009); citing National Archives Microfilm M653_1217.
[3] Ibid.
[4] National Park Service, "Soldiers" database, Civil War Soldiers & Sailor System (http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers.htm : accessed 12 June 2012), entry for Freeman, Jesse, Corporal; 21st Regiment, South Carolina Infantry; Confederate.
[5] Ibid.
[6] Ancestry, "Civil War Service Records" database, Military Service Records (http://www.fold3.com/ : accessed 12 June 2012), entry for Jesse Freeman, Corporal; Company E, 21th SC Infantry; Confederate.
[7] Randolph W. Kirkland Jr., Broken Fortunes: South Carolina Soldiers, Sailors and Citizens Who Died in the Service of Their Country and State in the War for Southern Independence, 1861-1865 (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina, 1997), Jesse Freeman is Not Listed as a deceased soldier.
[8] Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the War of Succession (Camden, SC 29020: Jim Fox Books, 1997 (Reprint)), page 402-403.
[9] 1880 U S Census, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Cole Hill, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, enumeration district (ED) 004, Page 303C, Line 40, Dwelling 72, Family 72, Household of Jesse FREEMAN; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 12 June 2012); citing National Archives Microfilm T9-1225.
[10] Charles Freeman, "COMPLAINT FOR RELIEF," Chesterfield District Chronicle, Vol. 5, No. 1, Winter 2002, Newsletter , Chesterfield County Genealogical Society (https://www.facebook.com/groups/131108983604237/), Pages 21-23.
[11] 1870 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Cole Hill, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page 283A; Line 3,, Dwelling 101, Family 101, Household of Ann FREEMAN; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 19 July 2012); citing National Archives Microfilm M593_1491.
[12] 1880 U S Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Cole Hill, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, enumeration district (ED) 004, Page 303C; Line 43, Dwelling 73, Family 73, Household of Joseph HALL; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 12 June 2011); citing National Archives Microfilm T9-1225.
[13] 1900 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Hebron, Marlboro County, South Carolina, ED 92, Page 12B/157B; Line 64, Dwelling 237, Family 237, Household of Annie FREEMAN.
[14] Annie Freeman, death certificate 010325 (18 June 1925), Vital Records, Department of Health and Environmental Control, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina.
[15] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 25 June 2014); Memorial page for Annie Freeman; (1845–18 June 1925); Find a Grave memorial # 121517243, Citing Salem Baptist Church Cemetery; Salem, Marlboro County, South Carolina, USA.