Brief Life History of William
When William Freeborn was born on 14 October 1818, in County Donegal, Ireland, his father, John Freeborn Sr, was 27 and his mother, Ann Strong, was 24. He married Eleanor Devitt on 6 January 1842, in Morganville, Union Township, Morgan, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Meigsville Township, Morgan, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Starr, Hocking, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died on 25 August 1882, in Starr Township, Hocking, Ohio, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Asbury Methodist Church Cemetery, Starr, Hocking, Ohio, United States.
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- William Freeborn, "United States Census, 1860"
- William Freeborn, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- William Freeborn, "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from the Middle English personal name Frebern (Old English Frēobeorn). Or possibly also from Middle English fre-boren, freborn ‘free-born’ (Old English frēo + boren), for ‘one born free, inheriting liberty, descended from freemen’, though the bulk of the evidence strongly suggests that the personal name is the usual source of the surname. Compare Freedman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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