Mary Ann Freeman

Brief Life History of Mary Ann

When Mary Ann Freeman was born in 1805, in Kentucky, United States, her father, John Freeman Sr., was 28 and her mother, Eleanor Nancy Lomax, was 18. She married Thomas Moxley in 1832, in Callaway, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Montgomery Township, Montgomery, Missouri, United States in 1850. She died on 20 August 1859, at the age of 54, and was buried in Chariton, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Moxley
1807–1850
Mary Ann Freeman
1805–1859
Marriage: 1832
Nancy Adline Moxley
1833–1872
Dulceny Moxley
1834–
John H. Moxley
1836–1862
Margaret Moxley
1838–

Sources (2)

  • Mary Moxley, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Mary Ann Freeman Moxley, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (7)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1812 · Kentucky Bend Created

During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.

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.

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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