When Wesley Freeman was born on 17 October 1896, in Junction, Kimble, Texas, United States, his father, William Allen Freeman, was 46 and his mother, Belvadora S Shockley, was 43. He married Lela Smitherman about 1918, in Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Kimble, Texas, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 2 March 1960, in Junction, Kimble, Texas, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Kimble, Texas, 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 ).
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