Brief Life History of Lucy Perry
When Lucy Perry Freeman was born in 1851, in Gibson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Dr. John Hamlin Freeman, was 52 and her mother, Priscilla Jones, was 43. She married Obediah Gardner Fitzgerald on 23 March 1868, in Gibson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Civil District 2, Haywood, Tennessee, United States in 1900. She died in 1920, at the age of 69, and was buried in Stanton, Haywood, Tennessee, United States.
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- Lucy Fitzgerald in household of G Fitzgerald, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Lucy Freeman - Government record: birth-name: Lucy Freeman
- Lucy P Freeman, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
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1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
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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