Brief Life History of Eliza Frances
When Eliza Frances Freeman was born on 27 December 1825, in Early, Georgia, United States, her father, James Delaware Freeman, was 23 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Collier, was 20. She married James Hignett on 21 January 1847, in Early, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 4 November 1870, in Tyler, Texas, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Beech Creek Baptist Cemetery, Spurger, Tyler, Texas, United States.
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- E F Hignett in household of James Hignett, "United States Census, 1860"
- Eliza F. Freeman, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Eliza Frances Freeman Hignett, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1832 · Worcester v. Georgia
In 1830, U.S. President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which required all Native Americans to relocate to areas west of the Mississippi River. That same year, Governor Gilmer of Georgia signed an act which claimed for Georgia all Cherokee territories within the boundaries of Georgia. The Cherokees protested the act and the case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, Worcester v. Georgia, ruled in 1832 that the United States, not Georgia, had rights over the Cherokee territories and Georgia laws regarding the Cherokee Nation were voided. President Jackson didn’t enforce the ruling and the Cherokees did not cede their land and Georgia held a land lottery anyway for white settlers.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English freman, fremon ‘freeman, free-born man’ (Old English frēomann, frīgmann), used also occasionally as a personal name. As an African American surname it was in many cases adopted as a name denoting a man freed of slavery. See also Fryman and Free .
Irish: Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Ó Saoraidhe (see Seery ).
Americanized form of French Lafrenière (see Lafreniere ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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