Vital Records Do Sometimes Contain Errors

Take the Case of this Delayed Birth Certificate created in March 1950.  The certificate certified that Henry Freeman was born 20 April 1885 and uses a Family Bible as proof. There is a problem with this certification and Certificate,

First, the Mother, Annie Freeman, had remarried after the death of her husband and was married to Joseph Hall in 1885 and the Child was given the name Henry Thomas Hall. The Mother Ann, was a widow, with two small children by her first husband –Jesse Coleman Freeman and John Wesley Freeman.  In addition, she had three children during her current marriage to Joseph Hall; those children are Barney, Nancy, and Calvin.

                              
In addition to these three Hall children; Joseph and Annie would have two additional children before he passed away – Henry Thomas Hall in April 1885 and Joanne Hall, 25 August 1887.

No Death date has been found for Joseph Hall but we know he died before June 1900 when the Census was enumerated. Also in that Census Henry, the child and Annie the Mother are listed as Freeman’s. After the Death of Joseph Hall, Annie and the three boys, Barney, Calvin, and Henry dropped their Hall surname and started using the Freeman surname. I looked and found no legal document for this action.  

Clearly, there is confusion here; the five children borne to Joseph Hall and Annie Freeman were by birth Hall Children but there may have been legal action taken to change their surname. No such legal action has been found.  Only DNA testing will prove whether their descendants carry the Hall and Freeman DNA.




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[1] Henry Freeman, birth certificate 6-896 (20 April 1885), South Carolina South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina.
[2]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.
[3] 1900 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Hebron, Marlboro County, South Carolina, enumeration district (ED) 92, Page 12B/157B; Line 64, Dwelling 237, Family 237, Household of Annie FREEMAN; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : viewed 19 July 2012); citing National Archives Microfilm T623_1523.

It’s Family Time~Jesse and Ann Freeman

In 1838, Jesse Freeman and Sarah Jane Davis Freeman had their seventh child; a boy, they named Jesse. Over the next 12 years, the family would grow to a total of 11 children. Except for the two oldest Daughters, Elizabeth and  Sarah Ann the entire family is shown here in this 1850 census graphic.

Daughter Elizabeth had married Elisha Poston and daughter Sarah Jane had married John D. Odom and is no longer enumerated with the family.


Their son, Jesse is now 12 years of age. In the 1860 census, we find young Jesse listed as age 20; but if he really was 12 in 1850 we know his real age must be 21 or maybe 22. The census also shows young Jesse at home and still unmarried.

We know that on 12 April 1861 Confederate soldiers bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. This became the fuse that started the Civil War.


Jesse and Sarah sent all four of their sons off to serve in the War with the 21st SC Infantry losing two to that war. John F. Freeman lost his life on 21 June 1864 and three days later on 24 June 1964, Jesse Freeman was killed-in-action (KIA) at Petersburg, Virginia.

I haven’t found a war record for Jesse but we know that sometime before joining he married a young lady named Ann, born 1845. The death certificate of her son, John Wesley Freeman, states that she was Ann Thurman. The 1870 Census shows Ann Freeman as a Widow with one son, J. A. Freeman. J. A. Freeman is reported as age 8 in the 1870 Census. Based on this it would put the marriage of Jesse and Ann taking place in 1861.


By 1880 Ann Thurman(?) Freeman has remarried to Joseph Hall and had 3 young Hall Children and an additional Freeman son, John Wesley, born in 1873. The age of her other son, Jesse A. Freeman is reported as age 15. This is the same J. A. Freeman that was age 8 in the 1870 Census. 

NOTE. Jesse or J. A. Freeman cannot be found after 1880 but in 1900 Census Jesse C. Freeman was found. There is little doubt that Jesse A. and Jesse Coleman Freeman is the same individual.

The presence of his brother John Westley in the household proved that Jesse C. is the man known as Jesse A. Freeman in previous Censuses.




Between 1880 and 1900, Joseph and Ann Thurman Freeman had additional children,. Joseph has passed away; when and where is unknown and Ann is left a Widow with 8 children. In this Census, Ann tells the Census Taker that she is the Mother of 9 children of which 8 are living. 

A 1910 Census image for Ann Thurman Freeman Hall has not been found.


Annie [Thurman] Freeman Hall died 18 June 1925. In Marlboro County, SC. The 1nformant on her SC Death Certificate was her son, Henry Thomas (Hall) Freeman.


Note: After the 1880 Census, all the male Hall children changed their surname to Freeman and were known by the Freeman surname.

There are many online trees that had the Death date for Annie [LNU] Freeman Hall as the Death date for Jesse and Sarah’s daughter Ann E. Freeman born in Sept. 1850. Listed as age 2/12 in the 1850 Census for Chesterfield County.


Another major note: The surname Thurman is used here to provide clarity in following the theme of this post. Annie, b. 1845 may be a Thurman and she may not be. We have one document that says she was a Thurman and that document is John Westley Freeman Death Certificate (#13168) but on that same death certificate, it states that his father is John W. Freeman. Note also there is NO Ann Thurman in any Chesterfield County household in 1850. 


To summarize: Annie [LNU, maybe Thurman], b. 1845, died 18 June 1925 is the wife of Jesse Freeman, born 1838 and Daughter-in-law of Jesse Freeman born 1804.


Ann E. Freeman, born abt Sept. 1850 is the daughter of Jesse Freeman, b. 1804 and his wife Sarah Jane Davis Freeman and the Sister of the Younger Jesse Freeman. Ann E. is only listed in one census (1850) and believed to have died as a child between Oct 1850 and 1860.


Jesse Freeman, b. 1838 is my 1st Cousin 4 times removed. Jesse Freeman, his father is the husband of my 3rd Great Grand Aunt.  



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[1] Annie Freeman, death certificate 010325 (18 June 1925), Vital Records, Department of Health and Environmental Control, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina.
[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] 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] 1870 U. S. Census, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Cole Hill Twsp., Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page 283A, Line 1, Dwelling 100, Family 100, Household of Jesse FREEMAN; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 12 June 2012); citing National Archives Microfilm M593_1491.
[4] 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.
[5] Last Will and Testament Jesse Freeman
[6] 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.
[7] 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.
[8] 1900 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Hebron, Marlboro County, South Carolina, enumeration district (ED) 92, Page 12B/157B; Line 64, Dwelling 237, Family 237, Household of Annie FREEMAN; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : viewed 19 July 2012); citing National Archives Microfilm T623_1523.
[9] Henry Freeman, Delayed Birth Certificate 6-896 (20 April 1885), South Carolina South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina.
[10] South Carolina, Death Records, 1821-1961, Images. Ancestry, (https://www.ancestry.com: 4 June 2018), South Carolina, Death Records, 1821-1961, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, J. W. Freeman; Certificate number 13168, 19 July 1933.
[11] 1850 U. S. Census, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Chesterfield District, South Carolina, page 107 (stamped); Line 27,, Dwelling 140, Family 140;, Household of Elisha POSTON; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 3 April 2019); citing National Archives Microfilm M432 Roll 851.
[12] 1860 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Chesterfield, South Carolina, Page: 175 (stamped); Line 8, Dwelling 1142, Family 1141, Household of Elisha POSTON; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 6 April 2019); citing National Archives Microfilm M653_1217.

[13] 1870 U. S. Census, Court House, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Cheraw, Chesterfield, South Carolina, Page: 259A (stamped); Line 3, Dwelling 158, Family 164, Household of and F.[Flora] POSTON; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 6 April 2019); citing National Archive Microfilm M593, Roll 1491.

It’s Family Time~Jesse and Ann Freeman

Jesse Freeman, son of Jesse and Sarah Jane Davis Freeman was born in 1838-1840 based on his reported age of 12 (1850) and 20 (1860) in these two censuses.

Shortly after the census was enumerated and maybe before the Civil War, Jesse married a young lady by the given name Ann and to this union was born  a son Jesse A. Freeman in 1862.

I believe that Jesse A. is really Jesse Coleman Freeman (1862-15 May 1951).

At the outbreak of the Civil War it’s almost certain that Jesse Freeman enlisted into one of the local units. Minnie Sanders Rivers in her Rivers History (The Rivers Family: of Chesterfield County, South Carolina. Handwritten. unpublished: n.p., 1929) states that Jesse died about 1863. His absence from the household in 1870 provides indirect evidence that he did not return from the War. Also Ann Freeman re-marriage in 1875 provides additional evidence of his possible demise.

85. Jesse; b. 1838; d. abt, 1863; in service in C.S.A. War; m. 1860,
Ann _______; b. S.C. 1845; d._____. Issue:
1. Jesse A. Freeman, b. 1862. No further record.

After an exhaustive search no record had been found for Jesse service in the Civil War; but Ann Freeman and her son, Jesse A. Freeman are enumerated in the 1870 Census. 

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.

Finding what happen to Jesse during the Civil War has been quite problematic. I found several entries that could possible be our Jesse Freeman.

• Jesse Freeman is not listed in "Broken Fortunes" SC Dead in CSA Service 1861-1865, Randolph W. Kirkland, Jr.

• At https://www.fold3.com/image/20/73570085 there is a listing for a J. FREEMAN from Chesterfield, SC. This J. FREEMAN is in Co. B, 2nd Batt'n South Carolina Sharp Shooters, appointed 2nd  Corporal  30 August 1862. Enlisted  Jan 8, 1862 by Capt. B. T. Davis for 3 years.

• There is a Corporal Jesse FREEMAN in the Company E, 21st South Carolina Infantry, Film Number M381 roll 11 listed in the National Park Service Civil War Solders and Sailors System Database; http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.htm

• Johnson Hagood does not show Jesse Freeman as a member of Co. E. 21st SCVI in his book "Memoirs if the War of Secession" pages 402 and 403.
• Freeman, Jesse
  REGIMENT NAME: 2nd Regiment, South Carolina Cavalry
  SIDE:Confederate
• Freeman, Jesse
  REGIMENT NAME: 4th Regiment, South Carolina Infantry
  SIDE:Confederate
• Freeman, Jesse
  REGIMENT NAME: 21st Regiment, South Carolina Infantry
  SIDE:Confederate
  ALTERNATE NAME: J./Freeman
• J. Freeman, age 19
  http://www.fold3.com/image/#20|83102041 , One muster card of 17 shows his name Jerry. I think this is Jesse. This soldier was taken prisoner on 16 June 1864. His records show no further evidence of him or what happen to him. But to bolter this belief we have:
• Freeman, Jesse, 21, Lieutenant killed at Petersburg, Virginia June 24, 1864. Historical Sketch & Roster The SC 21st Infantry Regiment, By John V. Rigdon, © 2005 Eastern Digital Resources, Published by: Eastern Digital Resources, Cartersville, GA 30120, page 78.
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Jesse, no doubt died in the Civil war, the question is When, Where and How?

About 1875, Ann Freeman, widow of Jesse Freeman, married Joseph Hall.  Joseph and Ann moved from Chesterfield to Marlboro County.

In July 1881, her ex father-in-law, Jesse Freeman, Sr., passed away. In October 1881 the surviving heirs divided into two groups file a “Bill of Complain” in the Court system against each other.  Ann Hall wife of Joseph hall is named as a Distributee of this estate.

• 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…

I have not found any documents that show the maiden name (Surname) of Ann Freeman Hall. 

 Ann [LNU] Freeman Hall died 18 June 1925 in Bennettsville, Marlboro County, South Carolina.

Many researches shows this deceased Ann to be Jesse Sr, daughter Ann Elizabeth Freeman; but, that’s impossible. 

Jesse Freeman is my 1st Cousin 4 times removed.









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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. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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..
6. Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the War of Succession (Camden, SC 29020: Jim Fox Books, 1997 (Reprint)), page 402-403.
7. John V. Rigdon, History of the 21st SC Volunteers: The South Carolina 21st Infantry Regiment (Cartersville, GA 30120: Eastern Digital Resources, October 2013), page 78 , Freeman, Jesse, 21, Lieutenant killed at Petersburg, Virginia June 24, 1864.
8. John V. Rigdon, Historical Sketch & Roster: The SC 21st Infantry Regiment (Cartersville, GA 30120: Eastern Digital Resources, 1997), page 78, Jesse Freeman, 21, Lieutenant killed at Petersburg, Virginia.
9. 1900 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Hebron, Marlboro County, South Carolina, enumeration district (ED) 92, Page 12B/157B; Line 64, Dwelling 237, Family 237, Household of Annie FREEMAN; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : viewed 19 July 2012); citing National Archives Microfilm T623_1523.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Annie Freeman, death certificate 010325 (18 June 1925), Vital Records, Department of Health and Environmental Control, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina.
13. Elizabeth C. Drake, Cemetery Records of Marlboro County, South Carolina; Marlboro County Historical Society, 1984, page 25. Tombstone of Anne Freeman Hall; 1845–18 June 1925, Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, Marlboro County, South Carolina.
14. 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.



 

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.