When Olive Hovey Freeman was born on 23 June 1799, in Waterford, Caledonia, Vermont, United States, her father, Elijah Freeman Sr., was 41 and her mother, Olive Hovey, was 37. She married Winslow Farr Sr on 5 December 1816, in Waterford, Caledonia, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 10 March 1893, in Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesWinslow Farr Sr. & Olive Hovey Freeman In about 1827, Winslow moved his family to Charleston, Orleans County, Vermont settling on the Clyde River in a dense wilderness where they cleared a heavy timbe …
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