Sophia Cornelia Freeman

Female1829–1886

Brief Life History of Sophia Cornelia

When Sophia Cornelia Freeman was born in 1829, in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, United States, her father, Rev Nathaniel Freeman, was 51 and her mother, Mary Baron Fox, was 44. She lived in New York City, New York County, New York, United States in 1850. She died in 1886, at the age of 57.

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Family Time Line

Rev Nathaniel Freeman
1778–1854
Mary Baron Fox
1785–1837
Harriet Sophia Freeman
1810–1875
Rev John Robinson Freeman
1812–1876
Charles Thomas Freeman
1813–1837
Henry S. Freeman
1816–1838
Mary Jane Freeman
1818–1836
Maria Southworth Freeman
1819–1837
Nathaniel Marston Freeman
1821–1902
Joseph William Freeman
1823–1836
William Rufus Freeman
1825–1836
Elizabeth Cannon Freeman
1827–1837
Sophia Cornelia Freeman
1829–1886

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  • Sophia C Freeman in household of Joel Blackmer, "United States Census, 1850"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (11)

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World Events (8)

1829 · Farmington Canal Opened

Age 0

Farmington Canal spans 2,476 acres, starting from New Haven, Connecticut, and on to Northampton, Massachusetts. The groundbreaking for the canal was in 1825 and opened in 1829.

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Age 1

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.

1846

Age 17

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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