Aaron Posey Freeman Jr (1782 - 1861)

Born 1782 in Iredell County, North Carolina, United States

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Died 3 Nov 1861 at about age 79 in Topaz, Douglas, Missouri, United States

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He is interred at Mount Ararat Cemetery in Topaz, Missouri. ^[1]

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1. Bruce Johnson ID I36241 OWT - 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.

3. Sherry Weaver - 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 goods 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 (CCF: this probably should be 1839) 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.

8. Kimberly Archer ID I110156037 Roots - According to the testimony of Eliza Dunn Lammel (gg-grandmother of Allabeth Freeman), Allabeth went to Mississippi from Missouri to register when the rolls were being done. I do know Aaron and Allabeth were in Missouri as early as 1833 (Crawford Co. Marriage records for 2 daughters), so this could be right. According to Eliza's testimony,when Allabeth approached the military man in charge of registration, he was drunk. From what I can infer from the testimony, Allabeth was insulted and ticked off by his behavior. She left before she was registered. I guess that might go along with the story of her telling them they could keep their land. There are several other Mississippi Choctaw Rejected application I plan to order that were done by other grandchildren. Three I know of for sure are Samuel Possey Freeman Jr. (son of Samuel Possey Freeman). John Bennight (Son of Mary Freeman Bennight) and John Turnbull (Son of Rachel Freeman and Nicholas Turnbull).

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 24 June 2018), memorial page for Aaron Posey Freeman (1783–3 Nov 1861), Find A Grave: Memorial #5937249, citing Mount Ararat Cemetery, Topaz, Douglas County, Missouri, USA ; Maintained by Vickie (contributor 46501688).

See also:

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZF-NTG : 12 April 2016), Aaron Freeman, Ozark county, Ozark, Missouri, United States; citing family 301, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHZS-9S6 : 14 December 2017), Aron Freeman, Douglas, Missouri, United States, 1860.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #5937249

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