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 1888 - 1957 (69 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. | Sylvester Sherman Freeman was born 23 Jan 1888, Indiana, USA (son of Henry Clifford Freeman and Permelia Anna Mitchell); died 12 May 1957, Princeton, Gibson, Indiana, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Black
- Race: C
- Occupation: Farmer
- Reference Number: 6518
- Residence: 1900, Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA; Age: 15; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
- Residence: Between 1917 and 1918, Gibson, Indiana, USA; Age: 29
- Residence: 1920, Patoka, Gibson, Indiana, USA; Age: 32; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
- Residence: 1930, Patoka, Gibson, Indiana, USA; Age: 40; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
Notes:
Died:
Age: 69
Sylvester married Dora Hardiman 13 Feb 1912, Gibson, Indiana, USA. Dora (daughter of George Washington Hardiman and Sallie C Philpot) was born Aug 1892, Indiana, USA; died 1946, Gibson, Indiana, USA; was buried , Princeton, Gibson, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]
Children:
- Fred C Freeman was born Abt 1914, Indiana, USA.
- Anna Mae Freeman was born 16 Jan 1916, Patoka, Gibson, Indiana, USA; died 19 Sep 2005, Princeton, Gibson, Indiana, USA.
- Mable Estelle Freeman was born 12 Jun 1917, Patoka, Gibson, Indiana, USA; died 19 Dec 2016, Peoria, Illinois, USA.
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Generation: 2
| 2. | Henry Clifford Freeman was born 5 May 1862, Vigo, Indiana, USA (son of Nelson Freeman and Rebecca Bell); died 3 May 1944, Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Black
- Reference Number: 2350
- Residence: 1900, Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA; Age: 38; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
- Residence: 1930, Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA
Henry married Permelia Anna Mitchell 1885. Permelia (daughter of Levi Mitchell and Catharine Finley) was born 5 Aug 1865, Worthington, Greene, Indiana, USA; died 28 Jan 1921, Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 3. | Permelia Anna Mitchell was born 5 Aug 1865, Worthington, Greene, Indiana, USA (daughter of Levi Mitchell and Catharine Finley); died 28 Jan 1921, Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Mulatto
- Reference Number: 6517
- Residence: 1870, Smith, Greene, Indiana, USA; Age: 7; Census Post Office: Worthington
- Residence: 1880, Willow Hill, Jasper, Illinois, USA; Age: 17; Marital status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
- Residence: 1900, Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA; Age: 38; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife
- Residence: 1920, Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA
Notes:
Died:
Age: 55
Children:
- 1. Sylvester Sherman Freeman was born 23 Jan 1888, Indiana, USA; died 12 May 1957, Princeton, Gibson, Indiana, USA.
- Lester Leroy Freeman was born 16 Mar 1887, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
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Generation: 3
| 4. | Nelson Freeman was born Abt 1820, Fayetteville, Cumberland, North Carolina, USA (son of Isaac Freeman and Euphanie Jane "Effie" Chavis); died 1874, Vigo, Indiana, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Mulatto
- Reference Number: 2348
- Bond date: 4 Oct 1842, Cumberland, North Carolina, USA
- Residence: 1850, Honey Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; Age: 34
- Residence: 1870, Linton, Vigo, Indiana, USA; Post Office: Pimento; Age: 50
- Residence: 1874, Linton, Vigo, Indiana, USA
Nelson married Rebecca Bell 4 Oct 1842, Cumberland, North Carolina, USA. Rebecca (daughter of John Bell and Elenore Bell) was born 1822, North Carolina, USA; died Between 1862 and 1869, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 5. | Rebecca Bell was born 1822, North Carolina, USA (daughter of John Bell and Elenore Bell); died Between 1862 and 1869, Indiana, USA. Other Events:
Children:
- Sarah A Freeman was born Jun 1849, Indiana, USA.
- Amanda Eliza Freeman was born 15 Jul 1851, Linton, Vigo, Indiana, USA; died 6 Apr 1925, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Caroline Freeman was born 1855, Indiana, USA.
- Jeremiah M Freeman was born 29 Jan 1856, Vigo, Indiana, USA; died 7 May 1926, Paris, Edgar, Illinois, USA.
- Eliza Alice Freeman was born 22 Jun 1859, Honey Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Wilbur Freeman was born Aug 1861, Illinois, USA.
- 2. Henry Clifford Freeman was born 5 May 1862, Vigo, Indiana, USA; died 3 May 1944, Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA.
- Mary J. Freeman was born 1846, Fayetteville, Cumberland, North Carolina, USA; died , Fairview Park Cemetary, St. John, Stafford, Kansas, USA.
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| 6. | Levi Mitchell was born Feb 1842, Indiana, USA (son of James Mitchell and Frances Hagin); died 3 Jun 1888, Jasper, Illinois, USA; was buried , Hunt City, Jasper, Illinois, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Mulatto
- State Filed: Illinois, USA
- Reference Number: 8042
- Residence: 1850, Jackson, Jackson, Indiana, USA; Age: 9
- Residence: 1860, Smith, Greene, Indiana, USA; Age: 18
- _MILT: 2 Jan 1864, Niles, Berrien, Michigan, USA; Civil War Colored INF. Co B (at age 24 years old)
- Residence: 1870, Smith, Greene, Indiana, USA; Post Office: Worthington; Age: 27
- Residence: 1880, Willow Hill, Jasper, Illinois, USA; Age: 39; Marital status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Self
Levi married Catharine Finley 17 Nov 1861. Catharine (daughter of Edward Finley) was born Abt 1834, Indiana, USA; died Apr 1910, Jasper, Illinois, USA; was buried , Hunt City, Jasper, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 7. | Catharine Finley was born Abt 1834, Indiana, USA (daughter of Edward Finley); died Apr 1910, Jasper, Illinois, USA; was buried , Hunt City, Jasper, Illinois, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Mulatto
- Reference Number: 8043
- Residence: 1850, Greene, Indiana, USA; Age: 16
- Residence: 1860, Fairplay, Greene, Indiana, USA; Age: 20
- Residence: 1870, Smith, Greene, Indiana, USA; Age: 35
- Residence: 1880, Willow Hill, Jasper, Illinois, USA; Age: 44; Marital status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife
- Residence: 1900, Willow Hill, Jasper, Illinois, USA; Age: 66; Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head
Children:
- Celia Mariar Mitchell was born 15 Feb 1873, Jasper, Illinois, USA; died 6 Mar 1940, Jasper, Illinois, USA; was buried 9 Mar 1940, Hunt City, Jasper, Illinois, USA.
- Nancy Jane Mitchell was born Abt 1867, Indiana, USA.
- Fredrick D. G. Mitchell was born 5 Jul 1869, Illinois, USA; died 1 Dec 1907, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- 3. Permelia Anna Mitchell was born 5 Aug 1865, Worthington, Greene, Indiana, USA; died 28 Jan 1921, Oblong, Crawford, Illinois, USA.
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Generation: 4
| 9. | Euphanie Jane "Effie" Chavis was born 1795, North Carolina, USA. Other Events:
Children:
- 4. Nelson Freeman was born Abt 1820, Fayetteville, Cumberland, North Carolina, USA; died 1874, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Bryant Freeman was born 1817, Columbus, North Carolina, USA; died 27 Jan 1887, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA.
- Jeremiah Freeman was born 1818, Columbus, North Carolina, USA; died 1 Apr 1893, Kent, Ontario, Canada.
- Edith Freeman was born 1824, Brunswick, North Carolina, USA.
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| 10. | John Bell was born 1784, Richmond, North Carolina, USA; died 1860, Vigo, Indiana, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Mulatto
- Reference Number: 2343
- Residence: 1820, Cumberland, North Carolina, USA
- Residence: 1830, Sampson, North Carolina, USA
- Residence: 1840, Sampson, North Carolina, USA
- Residence: 1850, Linton, Vigo, Indiana, USA; Age: 66
Notes:
BELL A Thomas Bell owned a square mile of land next to Col. William
Eaton in Granville County in 1754. His son Samuel Bell enlisted there in
1761. There was a Samuel Bell whose Revolutionary War Service reported
that he was born in Surry County, Virginia in 1749. He lived in Sampson
County, N.C. from 1782 to 1807 and lived in Robeson from about 1807 until
1832. John Bell, listed as white in Capt. Abram Barnes' district of south
Robeson and probably Lumbee, appeared in the 1776 and 1786 tax lists of
Bladen and in 1786 was listed with a wife and daughter. The Bell name
appears in Robeson records of 1780 and 1784 and in Sampson County in
1790. Robeson grantee and grantor deeds show John Bell with 200 acres on
Turkey Branch in 1787 and 10 acres additional in 1789. John Bell left a will
dated 1788 (Will Book I, 16). Mary Bell left a will dated 1804 (Will Book I,
88). Cheraw County, S.C. had William, Frederickson, Levi, Thomas and
William Bell with land grants between 1785 and 1797 (Royal Land Grants,
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Craven, Cheraw and Chesterfield Counties, C.C.). Some Bells in the 1850
Robeson census reported being born in Robeson by 1800. Mary Bell had 50
acres on Bridge Branch in 1803 and 150 acres on Hogg Swamp in 1808.
Samuel Bell had 223 acres south of Ten Mile Swamp in 1807. This tract
went from Samuel to Hardy H. Bell in 1819. Hardy H. Bell (1790-1866), a
powerful landowner and Lumberton storeowner who married Sarah Parker
c1820, had eighteen deeds on Ten Mile, the Stage Road, Saddletree Swamp,
Great Marsh and along the Lumber River filed between 1840 and 1865. The
surname was listed in S1. Pauls Township in 1880. Bell was self-identified as
Indian in the 1900 Census of Robeson and listed on the 1900 Indian
Schedule. The Directory of Robeson County, 1900, lists the "Croatan" name
of Bell in the Rozier community The name was listed as Indian in the 1930
census of Pembroke Township. Death records of Robeson of 1916 and 1936
show the Indian name Bell as primarily in Saddletree but a numerous name
allover Robeson, in Lumberton, Lumber Bridge, Pembroke, Saddletree and
Union townships. Cited at Bethel Hill Church cemetery and numerous other
locations by Jane Blanks Barnhill, Sacred Grounds, 2007, a listing of 162
Lumbee cemeteries in Robeson County. Those named Bell were attending
Pembroke State College by the 1940s. The name Bell is not found in any
other tri-racial isolate groups (DeMarce, 1992).
John married Elenore Bell 1814, North Carolina, USA. Elenore was born 1784, North Carolina, USA; died , Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 11. | Elenore Bell was born 1784, North Carolina, USA; died , Indiana, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 2344
- Residence: 1850, Linton, Vigo, Indiana, USA
Children:
- Henry J Bell was born Abt 1815, Sampson, North Carolina, USA; died 18 Nov 1880, Coles, Illinois, USA.
- 5. Rebecca Bell was born 1822, North Carolina, USA; died Between 1862 and 1869, Indiana, USA.
- Ellen Bell was born 4 Jul 1824, North Carolina, USA; died 24 Sep 1910, Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan, USA; was buried 26 Sep 1910, Almena, Van Buren, Michigan, USA.
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| 12. | James Mitchell was born Abt 1800, North Carolina, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Mulatto
- Reference Number: 8040
- Residence: 1840, Jackson, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1850, Jackson, Jackson, Indiana, USA; Age: 50
James married Frances Hagin 25 Feb 1841, Johnson, Indiana, USA. Frances was born 1808, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 13. | Frances Hagin was born 1808, North Carolina, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Mulatto
- Reference Number: 8041
- Residence: 1850, Jackson, Jackson, Indiana, USA; Age: 42
- Residence: 1860, Smith, Greene, Indiana, USA; Age: 52
- Residence: 1870, Smith, Greene, Indiana, USA; Post Office: Worthington; Age: 64
Children:
- Warren Mitchell was born 1 Aug 1834, Indiana, USA; died 5 Jan 1912, Pokagon, Cass, Michigan, USA.
- 6. Levi Mitchell was born Feb 1842, Indiana, USA; died 3 Jun 1888, Jasper, Illinois, USA; was buried , Hunt City, Jasper, Illinois, USA.
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| 14. | Edward Finley was born 1790, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Black
- Reference Number: 8057
- Residence: 1850, Greene, Indiana, USA; Age: 60
Children:
- 7. Catharine Finley was born Abt 1834, Indiana, USA; died Apr 1910, Jasper, Illinois, USA; was buried , Hunt City, Jasper, Illinois, USA.
- Hannah Finley was born Abt 1834, Indiana, USA.
- Hardin Finley was born 1828, Indiana, USA.
- Martin Finley was born 1829, Indiana, USA.
- George Finley was born 1832, Indiana, USA.
- Edward Finley was born 1836, Indiana, USA.
- Barbara Finley was born 1838, Indiana, USA.
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