Brief Life History of Alpha O.
When Alpha O. Freer was born on 16 August 1839, in Seneca, Ontario, New York, United States, his father, Gabriel Freer, was 46 and his mother, Elizabeth Cooley, was 43. He married Almira Odelia Newton on 21 August 1853, in Washtenaw, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Bunker Hill, Bunker Hill Township, Ingham, Michigan, United States in 1880 and Leslie, Ingham, Michigan, United States in 1900. He died on 13 November 1907, in Henrietta Township, Jackson, Michigan, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Bunker Hill Cemetery, Bunker Hill, Bunker Hill Township, Ingham, Michigan, United States.
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- Alfa Freer, "United States Census, 1880"
- *y Freer, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
- Ephlea Freer, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: sometimes from Middle English frere, frier ‘brother, friend, comrade’ (Old French frere). During the 13th century, however, the word increasingly denoted ‘member of one of the mendicant religious orders’, the usual modern sense of the word friar. The first friars arrived in England in 1224. As with Abbot , Monk , Nunn , and Prior , late medieval use of Frere as a nickname was probably uncomplimentary, for by the mid 14th century the once popular friars had become a byword in satirical literature for self-indulgent, smooth-talking hypocrisy. Friars were not allowed to marry, but some of them probably fathered children. After the Reformation former friars were free to marry, and one such is said to have been the progenitor of the Friers of Melrose parish, Roxburgh, an instance, if true, of post-medieval surname creation. The name may also be occupational, for someone who lived or worked at a friary (Middle English frere ‘house of friars’).
Americanized form of French Frère (see Frere ).
German: cognate of Friedrich .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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