On 6 May 1912, Captain William K. Freeman married Emily Toomey in Hawaii. She was probably born in Hawaii in 1879 and was denoted on census records as of Caucasian-Hawaiian ancestry. Her father and mother were from England and Hawaii, respectively. She appears on the 1910 census of Hawaii in Honolulu as a lodger in the home of Julia Manini at 145 Kuyakini Road. Her landlady was a dressmaker but Emily is “unemployed.” She was 31 years old at the time of the marriage. Her father was William Dennis Toomey born in Connecticut in 1846. Other sources show he was born in New Jersey, England or Scotland. He is shown in the 1900 census of Hawaii. Toomey was living alone on Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii. He was a planter and a landowner at Hana, Maui according to a Hawaii Directory of 1890. His father was from Connecticut, a veteran of the Civil War, who served in the 6th Connecticut Infantry from 1864 to 1865. Emily's mother was Mary Kahele, who was divorced from William at the time of her daughter's marriage.
Some background on the Toomey family is described below.
William D. Toomey's father was from Connecticut. He was a veteran of the Civil War and served in the 6th Connecticut Infantry from 1864 to 1865. He enlisted as a Private under the name Dennis Toomey on 3 December 1864. He was drafted in Company I, 6th Infantry Regiment Connecticut on 3 December 1864. Mustered out on 21 August 1865 in New Haven, Conn. While Toomey was in the Army, the unit was assigned to camp and picket duty until the latter part of December, 1864, when the regiment was ordered to take part in the second attack upon Fort Fisher, N.C., and accompanied General Terry upon that expedition, witnessing the greatest bombardment of modern ages and participating, on January 16, 1865, in the greatest and most successful assault upon a well-defended fortification made during the war. After the capture of Fort Fisher the regiment took part in the operations for the capture of Wilmington, N.C. and the opening of a base of supplies for Gen. W. T. Sherman in North Carolina. These operations were a skirmish on January 19, 1865, the engagements near Fort Fisher, capture of Wilmington and skirmish at Northeast Branch of Cape Fear River, February 22, 1865.
Dennis Toomey's regiment was then engaged in garrison duty at Wilmington, N. C., along the line of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad and at Goldsboro, N. C., until August and was finally mustered out at New Haven, Conn., August 21, 1865. Two hundred and five (205) of its original members reenlisted as veterans. Six hundred (600) recruits were credited to it. Add to these the one thousand and eight who went into the field originally, and we have an aggregate of one thousand eight hundred and thirteen men who have served with the regiment.
By the time Toomey sought a pension in 1905, he was an invalid. Toomey married twice, each time to Hawaiian women, and had several children. Emily’s mother is believed to be either Mary Kahele (as shown on Emily & William Freeman's marriage record) or Kina Kahoolemoku of Maui. Shortly after Dennis Toomey died in a lighthouse fire, his wife passed away also. His children were then orphaned. They were sent to live with his half-brother Samuel for a short time and later sent to live with Samuel's wife's sister as "hanai" children.
One of Emily’s brothers was Samuel Kana Toomey, Sr. (Memorial #112795348), who was born in 1887 in Hana, Hawaii. His son, Samuel Kana Toomey Jr. born 17 January 1911 (Memorial #72590771), served in the Army in World War II and was stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, as well as serving overseas. He died in 1948. According to the memorial, he is buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu and he died 2 July 2004. (This requires clarification.) Another like family member buried in the same cemetery is Lieut. Thomas J. Toomey, Jr, who must have served during WW II. He has Memorial #10597647.
Samuel Kana Toomey Jr's son, Samuel Kana Toomey III, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 30, 1935. He entered the Army in April 1956 after service in the Marines. In Vietnam, Toomey worked with Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observation Group (MACV-SOG), which was a joint service high command unconventional warfare task force, engaged in highly classified operations throughout Southeast Asia. These teams performed deep penetration missions of strategic reconnaissance and interdiction missions in Laos and Cambodia which were called, depending on the country and time frame, "Shining Brass" or "Prairie Fire" missions.
On November 30, 1968, Maj. Toomey was a passenger aboard a Vietnamese Air Force CH34 helicopter (serial #14-4653) as his team was being transported to their reconnaissance mission area in Laos. Details of their mission were classified at the time and remained so in early 1990. However, information received from some of the family members indicates that the mission was related to disarming an enemy munitions store. This same account includes the information that Maj. Toomey was a chemical warfare expert. Toomey's family identified his job as one that he could not talk about, but that he was an "Advisor to the Special Forces." The helicopter was struck by 37mm anti-aircraft fire and crashed in a mass of flames and exploded. The helicopter crashed about 10 miles northwest of Khe Sanh, just into Laos east of Chepone. No ground search was initiated, because the location was in a denied area. All the personnel aboard the aircraft, however, were not declared dead, but were declared Missing in Action, which was procedure when no proof of death existed.
There is no evidence that William and Emily Freeman had children, perhaps accounting for William's age at the time of their marriage in 1912.
The passenger list for a June 1920 crossing of the liner SS Matsonia from Hawaii to San Francisco includes the names of William and Emily Freeman of Honolulu. Emily is shown as age 40 and William as age 67. He is noted to have been born on “Cape Cod”. Emily died in 1923 in San Francisco.
(historical details courtesy of William M. Freeman, a great-grand nephew of Capt. William K. Freeman)
Some background on the Toomey family is described below.
William D. Toomey's father was from Connecticut. He was a veteran of the Civil War and served in the 6th Connecticut Infantry from 1864 to 1865. He enlisted as a Private under the name Dennis Toomey on 3 December 1864. He was drafted in Company I, 6th Infantry Regiment Connecticut on 3 December 1864. Mustered out on 21 August 1865 in New Haven, Conn. While Toomey was in the Army, the unit was assigned to camp and picket duty until the latter part of December, 1864, when the regiment was ordered to take part in the second attack upon Fort Fisher, N.C., and accompanied General Terry upon that expedition, witnessing the greatest bombardment of modern ages and participating, on January 16, 1865, in the greatest and most successful assault upon a well-defended fortification made during the war. After the capture of Fort Fisher the regiment took part in the operations for the capture of Wilmington, N.C. and the opening of a base of supplies for Gen. W. T. Sherman in North Carolina. These operations were a skirmish on January 19, 1865, the engagements near Fort Fisher, capture of Wilmington and skirmish at Northeast Branch of Cape Fear River, February 22, 1865.
Dennis Toomey's regiment was then engaged in garrison duty at Wilmington, N. C., along the line of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad and at Goldsboro, N. C., until August and was finally mustered out at New Haven, Conn., August 21, 1865. Two hundred and five (205) of its original members reenlisted as veterans. Six hundred (600) recruits were credited to it. Add to these the one thousand and eight who went into the field originally, and we have an aggregate of one thousand eight hundred and thirteen men who have served with the regiment.
By the time Toomey sought a pension in 1905, he was an invalid. Toomey married twice, each time to Hawaiian women, and had several children. Emily’s mother is believed to be either Mary Kahele (as shown on Emily & William Freeman's marriage record) or Kina Kahoolemoku of Maui. Shortly after Dennis Toomey died in a lighthouse fire, his wife passed away also. His children were then orphaned. They were sent to live with his half-brother Samuel for a short time and later sent to live with Samuel's wife's sister as "hanai" children.
One of Emily’s brothers was Samuel Kana Toomey, Sr. (Memorial #112795348), who was born in 1887 in Hana, Hawaii. His son, Samuel Kana Toomey Jr. born 17 January 1911 (Memorial #72590771), served in the Army in World War II and was stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, as well as serving overseas. He died in 1948. According to the memorial, he is buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu and he died 2 July 2004. (This requires clarification.) Another like family member buried in the same cemetery is Lieut. Thomas J. Toomey, Jr, who must have served during WW II. He has Memorial #10597647.
Samuel Kana Toomey Jr's son, Samuel Kana Toomey III, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 30, 1935. He entered the Army in April 1956 after service in the Marines. In Vietnam, Toomey worked with Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observation Group (MACV-SOG), which was a joint service high command unconventional warfare task force, engaged in highly classified operations throughout Southeast Asia. These teams performed deep penetration missions of strategic reconnaissance and interdiction missions in Laos and Cambodia which were called, depending on the country and time frame, "Shining Brass" or "Prairie Fire" missions.
On November 30, 1968, Maj. Toomey was a passenger aboard a Vietnamese Air Force CH34 helicopter (serial #14-4653) as his team was being transported to their reconnaissance mission area in Laos. Details of their mission were classified at the time and remained so in early 1990. However, information received from some of the family members indicates that the mission was related to disarming an enemy munitions store. This same account includes the information that Maj. Toomey was a chemical warfare expert. Toomey's family identified his job as one that he could not talk about, but that he was an "Advisor to the Special Forces." The helicopter was struck by 37mm anti-aircraft fire and crashed in a mass of flames and exploded. The helicopter crashed about 10 miles northwest of Khe Sanh, just into Laos east of Chepone. No ground search was initiated, because the location was in a denied area. All the personnel aboard the aircraft, however, were not declared dead, but were declared Missing in Action, which was procedure when no proof of death existed.
There is no evidence that William and Emily Freeman had children, perhaps accounting for William's age at the time of their marriage in 1912.
The passenger list for a June 1920 crossing of the liner SS Matsonia from Hawaii to San Francisco includes the names of William and Emily Freeman of Honolulu. Emily is shown as age 40 and William as age 67. He is noted to have been born on “Cape Cod”. Emily died in 1923 in San Francisco.
(historical details courtesy of William M. Freeman, a great-grand nephew of Capt. William K. Freeman)
On 6 May 1912, Captain William K. Freeman married Emily Toomey in Hawaii. She was probably born in Hawaii in 1879 and was denoted on census records as of Caucasian-Hawaiian ancestry. Her father and mother were from England and Hawaii, respectively. She appears on the 1910 census of Hawaii in Honolulu as a lodger in the home of Julia Manini at 145 Kuyakini Road. Her landlady was a dressmaker but Emily is “unemployed.” She was 31 years old at the time of the marriage. Her father was William Dennis Toomey born in Connecticut in 1846. Other sources show he was born in New Jersey, England or Scotland. He is shown in the 1900 census of Hawaii. Toomey was living alone on Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii. He was a planter and a landowner at Hana, Maui according to a Hawaii Directory of 1890. His father was from Connecticut, a veteran of the Civil War, who served in the 6th Connecticut Infantry from 1864 to 1865. Emily's mother was Mary Kahele, who was divorced from William at the time of her daughter's marriage.
Some background on the Toomey family is described below.
William D. Toomey's father was from Connecticut. He was a veteran of the Civil War and served in the 6th Connecticut Infantry from 1864 to 1865. He enlisted as a Private under the name Dennis Toomey on 3 December 1864. He was drafted in Company I, 6th Infantry Regiment Connecticut on 3 December 1864. Mustered out on 21 August 1865 in New Haven, Conn. While Toomey was in the Army, the unit was assigned to camp and picket duty until the latter part of December, 1864, when the regiment was ordered to take part in the second attack upon Fort Fisher, N.C., and accompanied General Terry upon that expedition, witnessing the greatest bombardment of modern ages and participating, on January 16, 1865, in the greatest and most successful assault upon a well-defended fortification made during the war. After the capture of Fort Fisher the regiment took part in the operations for the capture of Wilmington, N.C. and the opening of a base of supplies for Gen. W. T. Sherman in North Carolina. These operations were a skirmish on January 19, 1865, the engagements near Fort Fisher, capture of Wilmington and skirmish at Northeast Branch of Cape Fear River, February 22, 1865.
Dennis Toomey's regiment was then engaged in garrison duty at Wilmington, N. C., along the line of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad and at Goldsboro, N. C., until August and was finally mustered out at New Haven, Conn., August 21, 1865. Two hundred and five (205) of its original members reenlisted as veterans. Six hundred (600) recruits were credited to it. Add to these the one thousand and eight who went into the field originally, and we have an aggregate of one thousand eight hundred and thirteen men who have served with the regiment.
By the time Toomey sought a pension in 1905, he was an invalid. Toomey married twice, each time to Hawaiian women, and had several children. Emily’s mother is believed to be either Mary Kahele (as shown on Emily & William Freeman's marriage record) or Kina Kahoolemoku of Maui. Shortly after Dennis Toomey died in a lighthouse fire, his wife passed away also. His children were then orphaned. They were sent to live with his half-brother Samuel for a short time and later sent to live with Samuel's wife's sister as "hanai" children.
One of Emily’s brothers was Samuel Kana Toomey, Sr. (Memorial #112795348), who was born in 1887 in Hana, Hawaii. His son, Samuel Kana Toomey Jr. born 17 January 1911 (Memorial #72590771), served in the Army in World War II and was stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, as well as serving overseas. He died in 1948. According to the memorial, he is buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu and he died 2 July 2004. (This requires clarification.) Another like family member buried in the same cemetery is Lieut. Thomas J. Toomey, Jr, who must have served during WW II. He has Memorial #10597647.
Samuel Kana Toomey Jr's son, Samuel Kana Toomey III, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 30, 1935. He entered the Army in April 1956 after service in the Marines. In Vietnam, Toomey worked with Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observation Group (MACV-SOG), which was a joint service high command unconventional warfare task force, engaged in highly classified operations throughout Southeast Asia. These teams performed deep penetration missions of strategic reconnaissance and interdiction missions in Laos and Cambodia which were called, depending on the country and time frame, "Shining Brass" or "Prairie Fire" missions.
On November 30, 1968, Maj. Toomey was a passenger aboard a Vietnamese Air Force CH34 helicopter (serial #14-4653) as his team was being transported to their reconnaissance mission area in Laos. Details of their mission were classified at the time and remained so in early 1990. However, information received from some of the family members indicates that the mission was related to disarming an enemy munitions store. This same account includes the information that Maj. Toomey was a chemical warfare expert. Toomey's family identified his job as one that he could not talk about, but that he was an "Advisor to the Special Forces." The helicopter was struck by 37mm anti-aircraft fire and crashed in a mass of flames and exploded. The helicopter crashed about 10 miles northwest of Khe Sanh, just into Laos east of Chepone. No ground search was initiated, because the location was in a denied area. All the personnel aboard the aircraft, however, were not declared dead, but were declared Missing in Action, which was procedure when no proof of death existed.
There is no evidence that William and Emily Freeman had children, perhaps accounting for William's age at the time of their marriage in 1912.
The passenger list for a June 1920 crossing of the liner SS Matsonia from Hawaii to San Francisco includes the names of William and Emily Freeman of Honolulu. Emily is shown as age 40 and William as age 67. He is noted to have been born on “Cape Cod”. Emily died in 1923 in San Francisco.
(historical details courtesy of William M. Freeman, a great-grand nephew of Capt. William K. Freeman)
Some background on the Toomey family is described below.
William D. Toomey's father was from Connecticut. He was a veteran of the Civil War and served in the 6th Connecticut Infantry from 1864 to 1865. He enlisted as a Private under the name Dennis Toomey on 3 December 1864. He was drafted in Company I, 6th Infantry Regiment Connecticut on 3 December 1864. Mustered out on 21 August 1865 in New Haven, Conn. While Toomey was in the Army, the unit was assigned to camp and picket duty until the latter part of December, 1864, when the regiment was ordered to take part in the second attack upon Fort Fisher, N.C., and accompanied General Terry upon that expedition, witnessing the greatest bombardment of modern ages and participating, on January 16, 1865, in the greatest and most successful assault upon a well-defended fortification made during the war. After the capture of Fort Fisher the regiment took part in the operations for the capture of Wilmington, N.C. and the opening of a base of supplies for Gen. W. T. Sherman in North Carolina. These operations were a skirmish on January 19, 1865, the engagements near Fort Fisher, capture of Wilmington and skirmish at Northeast Branch of Cape Fear River, February 22, 1865.
Dennis Toomey's regiment was then engaged in garrison duty at Wilmington, N. C., along the line of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad and at Goldsboro, N. C., until August and was finally mustered out at New Haven, Conn., August 21, 1865. Two hundred and five (205) of its original members reenlisted as veterans. Six hundred (600) recruits were credited to it. Add to these the one thousand and eight who went into the field originally, and we have an aggregate of one thousand eight hundred and thirteen men who have served with the regiment.
By the time Toomey sought a pension in 1905, he was an invalid. Toomey married twice, each time to Hawaiian women, and had several children. Emily’s mother is believed to be either Mary Kahele (as shown on Emily & William Freeman's marriage record) or Kina Kahoolemoku of Maui. Shortly after Dennis Toomey died in a lighthouse fire, his wife passed away also. His children were then orphaned. They were sent to live with his half-brother Samuel for a short time and later sent to live with Samuel's wife's sister as "hanai" children.
One of Emily’s brothers was Samuel Kana Toomey, Sr. (Memorial #112795348), who was born in 1887 in Hana, Hawaii. His son, Samuel Kana Toomey Jr. born 17 January 1911 (Memorial #72590771), served in the Army in World War II and was stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, as well as serving overseas. He died in 1948. According to the memorial, he is buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu and he died 2 July 2004. (This requires clarification.) Another like family member buried in the same cemetery is Lieut. Thomas J. Toomey, Jr, who must have served during WW II. He has Memorial #10597647.
Samuel Kana Toomey Jr's son, Samuel Kana Toomey III, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 30, 1935. He entered the Army in April 1956 after service in the Marines. In Vietnam, Toomey worked with Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observation Group (MACV-SOG), which was a joint service high command unconventional warfare task force, engaged in highly classified operations throughout Southeast Asia. These teams performed deep penetration missions of strategic reconnaissance and interdiction missions in Laos and Cambodia which were called, depending on the country and time frame, "Shining Brass" or "Prairie Fire" missions.
On November 30, 1968, Maj. Toomey was a passenger aboard a Vietnamese Air Force CH34 helicopter (serial #14-4653) as his team was being transported to their reconnaissance mission area in Laos. Details of their mission were classified at the time and remained so in early 1990. However, information received from some of the family members indicates that the mission was related to disarming an enemy munitions store. This same account includes the information that Maj. Toomey was a chemical warfare expert. Toomey's family identified his job as one that he could not talk about, but that he was an "Advisor to the Special Forces." The helicopter was struck by 37mm anti-aircraft fire and crashed in a mass of flames and exploded. The helicopter crashed about 10 miles northwest of Khe Sanh, just into Laos east of Chepone. No ground search was initiated, because the location was in a denied area. All the personnel aboard the aircraft, however, were not declared dead, but were declared Missing in Action, which was procedure when no proof of death existed.
There is no evidence that William and Emily Freeman had children, perhaps accounting for William's age at the time of their marriage in 1912.
The passenger list for a June 1920 crossing of the liner SS Matsonia from Hawaii to San Francisco includes the names of William and Emily Freeman of Honolulu. Emily is shown as age 40 and William as age 67. He is noted to have been born on “Cape Cod”. Emily died in 1923 in San Francisco.
(historical details courtesy of William M. Freeman, a great-grand nephew of Capt. William K. Freeman)
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