1860: John(40, from NY) & Julia Mulvaney(28, from NY) lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan with 5 children: Francis(13), George(10), Rosa(7), Alice(4), Mary(1) [4]
1870: John(55, from VT) lived next door to his oldest son, Franklin Freeman (22, from NY), in Pine Grove, Michigan with 4 children: George(20, from NY), Rosa(17, from NY), Mary(12, from MI), and Thomas(9, from MI). [3]
1880: John(59, from VT) lived with his daughter Rosa and her husband, Francis Sweeney, and grandson, Charles Sweeney, in Alamo, Kalamazoo, MI[5]
1900: John (91, from NY) living as a widowed boarder in VanLuet household (also lists both parents as being from NY)[1]
John Freeman died of senility at the age of 98 on 9 Sep in Albion, Calhoon, MI. (death certificate names father "John Freeman" as being from Canada - mother unknown)[2]
↑ 5.05.15.2 "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWSF-PXK : 14 January 2022), John Freeman in household of Francis Sweeney, Alamo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
"Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995", database, FamilySearch : 23 February 2021, John Freeman in entry for George Freeman, 1917.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25813073/john-thomas-freeman : accessed 05 December 2021), memorial page for John Thomas Freeman (Jun 1809–9 Sep 1907), Find a Grave Memorial ID 25813073, citing Riverside Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA ; Maintained by ambs (contributor 46814643) .
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