When Louis "Lucas" Freye was born on 12 September 1857, in Osterwald, Grafschaft Bentheim, Niedersachsen, Germany, his father, Harm Freye, was 33 and his mother, Zwenne Schippers, was 33. He married Charlotte Tjaltje Klooster on 8 October 1885, in Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 20 November 1906, in Muskegon, Muskegon, Michigan, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Lakeside Township, Muskegon, Michigan, United States.