James Green Freeman (abt. 1830)

Born about 1830 in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States

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Died [date unknown] in Douglas, Missouri, United States

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This person was created through the import of David Freeman Wheeler 4-24-2009_2010-04-29.ged on 23 August 2010.

1. Bruce Johnson ID I36255

2. Sherry Weaver

3. Jeannie Dobbs ID I10132 Roots

4. Ron Webb ID I05778 Roots

5. 21948 ID I1058 Roots

6. Kimberly Archer ID i110156079 Roots

7. Arla Cruzen ID I2744 Roots

8. Curt ID I22026 Roots

9. dalles ID I2744 Roots

10. Mary Minor ID I563604890 Roots

11. Allan Bentley ID I21613 Roots

12. Don Jager ID I1184 Roots

13. STAFA ID I150154 Roots

1. Bruce Johnson ID I36255

2. Sherry Weaver

3. Jeannie Dobbs ID I10132 Roots

4. Ron Webb ID I05778 Roots

5. 21948 ID I1058 Roots

6. Kimberly Archer ID i110156079 Roots

7. Arla Cruzen ID I2744 Roots

8. Curt ID I22026 Roots

9. dalles ID I2744 Roots

10. Mary Minor ID I563604890 Roots

11. Allan Bentley ID I21613 Roots

12. Don Jager ID I1184 Roots

13. STAFA ID I150154 Roots

One was of the first 10 homesteaders to settle in Douglas Co. MO Aaron Possey Freeman and his wife, Alabeth, migrated to Missouri. Although the exact date of their move to Missouri is not known, evidence indicates that they were there by 1834. This is based on the Crawford Co. Missouri marriage information recorded for their daughter, Mary, who was married to John Benight Mar 16, 1834. Once in Missouri, the family moved several times before setting down in Douglas Co. MO. Census information shows the family in Taney Co. Missouri in 1840. Ozark Co. Missouri in 1850 and Douglas Co. Missouri in 1860. Some of the first settlers on North Fork River in what is now Douglas County were the Wood family. Henry Wood settled on this part of the North Fork River in 1840. He lived to be 103, as indicated by his headstone in Mt. Ararat Cemetery, 1795-1898. The Wood family, of English descent, first emigrated from North Carolina in 1839. settling on the Meremac River in what is now St. Louis County. In the spring of 1840, Henry Wood and a friend, Posey Freeman, explored the North Fork hills in search of land to be homesteaded. At that time the Shawnee Indians guarded that stream as their hunting grounds. There was an abundance of game - deer, bear, elk, wild turkey and fish. Returning to the Meremac, they loaded their families and household goodsd into oxcarts and headed for the North Fork hills. It took 25 days to make their way back through the wilderness to the settlement, where they established their first camp on March 10, 1840. J. H. Wood was born that same fall and was the first white child born in that area. Other early settlers in this area were Alabeth (Ball) Freeman who with her husband Aaron Possy Freeman who were my great, grandparents. She was a half-blood Choctaw and they owned an improvement in Mississippi Choctaw Nation. They left Mississippi and went to North Carolina in 1831. In or about 1939 they and some relatives came to the Ozarks and located at a large spring at Topaz on North Fork River and put up a grist mill and a distillery. William Clinton located at a large spring on the west side of North Fork River, near the mouth of Indian Creek and close to where H. W. Wood settled below and on the west side of the same creek. In the early days of the North Fork settlement, before there were any sawmills, a young man named Freeman died. His friends cut a large pine tree and hollowed it out for a coffin, took part of Henry Woods' wagon bed and made a lid for it and buried him at Mt. Ararat, the first person buried in that burying ground. He was the son of Aaron Possey Freeman. Aaron died 3 Nov, 1861 and his wife died about three months later and they were buried at Mt. Ararat where their son [James] was buried. Alabeth and Aaron had thirteen children with only twenty two years between the oldest and youngest. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jtrf2013&id=I29160

ID: I29175 Name: James Green Freeman Sex: M Birth: 1830 in Buncombe Co. NC Event: Record Change 28 MAR 2007 Death: in Douglas Co. MO Note: 1. Bruce Johnson ID I36255 2. Sherry Weaver 3. Jeannie Dobbs ID I10132 Roots 4. Ron Webb ID I05778 Roots 5. 21948 ID I1058 Roots 6. Kimberly Archer ID i110156079 Roots 7. Arla Cruzen ID I2744 Roots 8. Curt ID I22026 Roots 9. dalles ID I2744 Roots 10. Mary Minor ID I563604890 Roots 11. Allan Bentley ID I21613 Roots 12. Don Jager ID I1184 Roots 13. STAFA ID I150154 Roots http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jtrf2013&id=I29175