Benonay Freel (1821 - 1901)

Born 18 Nov 1821 in Strawtown, White River Township, Hamilton, Indiana, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Warren (Prentiss) Freel — married 15 May 1845 in Village Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States

Husband of Mary (Fisher) Freel — married 21 Apr 1896 in Jefferson, Nebraska, United States

Descendants

Died 31 Mar 1901 at age 79 in Liberty, Gage, Nebraska, United States

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Biography

This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.

Name

Name: Benonay "Bennie" /Freel/

Surname: Freel

Given Name: Benonay "Bennie"

A Given name was found in addition to a first name in the NAME tag.

Birth

Birth:

Date: 18 Nov 1821

Place: Strawton, Hamilton Co, Indiana^[1]

Death

Death:

Date: 31 Mar 1901

Place: Liberty, Gage Co, Ne^[2]

User ID

User ID: 8CC3B0CD45C0414EAD6727E6B5042A0D71DC

Note

Note: Listed as a blacksmith in 1860 census, in Falls City, NE; shown there as age 27; should be 38. There are date discrepancies in that census, with no obvious pattern, for the entire family except wife Margaret and daughter Mary. Children Lucretia and Otis are also missing from that census; should be ages 4 and 2.

1860 census shows an E M Sprague, farm laborer, living with the family. This Sprague apparently enlisted as a 3rd Corporal in the 2nd Nebraska Cavalry in 1862, at the same time as the enlistment of several Freel men.

Frank D. Myers shows birth place as Fayette County, Indiana, and marriage place as Van Buren County, Iowa

per Frank D. Myers

...during 1850, gold fever struck and several Van Buren County men headed west to California that fall, including Moses, his brother Alonzo and his brother-in-law Benona Freel. The 1850 census of California records Benona and Moses as miners in the Peru vicinity of Eldorado County during December and Alonzo, mining on the middle fork of the American River, also in Eldorado County, during January of 1851.

All three men returned home safely to Van Buren County within the next year, but it does not appear that any found fortunes in the gold fields.

[in 1854], Moses and Chloe...along with Peachy and Caroline and their family, Benona and Margaret Freel and family and others pulled up stakes and headed west to Wayne County. Moses and Chloe and Peachy and Caroline settled on adjacent farms about two miles north of Corydon along Wildcat Creek.

The Freels soon headed even farther west, to Nebraska, and Moses and Chloe reportedly followed them at some point prior to 1860. The family story holds that after a time in Nebraska Chloe became so ill that Moses was convinced she would die. He wrote to her parents, and Peachy resolved to go to his daughter‘s side. It was spring, according to the story, and the Boswells had only one horse --- needed by the Boswell boys, Reed and Ellis and Tommy, to do farm work. So Peachy set out on foot and walked to Nebraska.

As it turned out, Chloe did not die, but the family had enough of Nebraska. So they loaded up the wagon and with Peachy aboard headed home to Corydon.

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Date: 8 Sep 2009

Time: 00:21:53

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Marriage

User ID: 88344D44142A4F4796AB77C29F6062A39F7D

Husband: Benona "Bennie" Freel

Wife: Margaret Warren Prentiss

Child: Charles Warren Freel

Child: Albert Morrison Freel

Child: Oliver Perry Freel

Child: Herbert Manford Freel

Child: Mary Priscilla Jane Freel

Child: Lucretia Lovena Freel

Child: Otis Adel Freel

Child: George Edwin Freel

Child: Eva Lavica Freel

Child: Margretta Carre Freel

Child: Robert Benona Freel

Child: Abraham Lincoln Freel

Child: William Wilson Freel

Child: Ida May Freel

Marriage:

Date: 15 May 1845

Place: Corydon, Wayne Co, Ia; or Van Buren Co, Ia^[3]

Note: Some LDS records show this marriage as occuring in Van Buren Co, IA

This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S826
2. ↑ Source: #S827
3. ↑ Source: #S2924

• "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJ4R-J8X : 4 November 2017), Benonany Or Beunonay Freels and Margarett Warren Prentiss, 15 May 1845, Village Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States; citing reference , county courthouses, Iowa; FHL microfilm 967,640.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHDW-DD7 : 13 June 2019), Benonia Freel, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8YK-XMR : 14 August 2017), Renona Freel, 1880; citing enumeration district ED 311, sheet 392B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d), roll 0754; FHL microfilm 1,254,754.
• "Nebraska State Census, 1885," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X3FH-NC1 : 11 March 2018), Benoni Freel in entry for Conrad Sandolt, 1885; citing NARA microfilm publication M352 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 499,573.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3BS-52L : accessed 28 August 2019), Benora Freel, Island Grove Township, Gage, Nebraska, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 55, sheet 5B, family 98, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,928.
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 August 2019), memorial page for Benonay Freel (18 Nov 1821–31 Mar 1901), Find A Grave: Memorial #84099932, citing Harris Cemetery, Barada, Richardson County, Nebraska, USA ; Maintained by Linda Jenkins Werts (contributor 47016781) .

• WikiTree profile Freel-35 created through the import of tryWikiTreeJC2.ged on Dec 31, 2011 by J. C. Adamson. See the Changes page for the details of edits by J. C. and others.

• Source: S2924 Title: LDS Batch 7032925, Sheet 8; Van Buren IA location from LDS Ancestral file
• Source: S826 Title: LDS Film 7502701, Sheet 36 CONT Name "Bennie" from Broderbund WFT #4968
• Source: S827 Title: LDS Ancestral File #FDDV-Z3
• WikiTree profile Freel-61 created through the import of Lincoln58.ged on Jun 11, 2012 by LaFaye Lincoln. See the Changes page for the details of edits by LaFaye and others.

• Source: S9010933 Title: profile page