Brief Life History of Nathan Thomas
When Nathan Thomas Freeman was born on 16 December 1868, in Howard, Indiana, United States, his father, Nathan Freeman Jr, was 40 and his mother, Anna Rich, was 37. He married Elverna C Charles on 27 January 1894, in Howard, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Indiana, United States in 1870 and Taylor Township, Howard, Indiana, United States in 1900. He died on 16 September 1909, in Liberty Township, Howard, Indiana, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Freeman Cemetery, Howard, Indiana, United States.
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- Nathan Freeman, "United States Census, 1900"
- Nallian Freeman, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Nathan Thomas Freeman, "Indiana Death Index, 1882-1920"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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