From the Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi, September 18, 1873:
Death of Mrs. Gen. Freeman. – Mrs. Eliza Freeman, wife of Gen. Jno. D. Freeman, died at her residence in this city on Saturday evening last, at six o’clock, after a protracted and painful illness. Mrs. Freeman was the sister of Gen. Wirt Adams. She leaves a blessed memory to a large circle of relatives and friends. She departed this life in the 57th year of her age.
From the Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi, October 2, 1873:
The Late Mrs. Eliza Freeman
With the setting of a cloudless sun on Sept. 13th, 1873, Mrs. Eliza Freeman, consort of the Hon. John D. Freeman, of this city, peacefully and triumphantly entered upon her true life – the life of the soul. . . .
Mrs. Freeman was no ordinary person; but the attributes of her mind and character were so equally balanced and so adorned with the most charming modesty that she performed all the duties of life so graciously as not to attract special observation. . . .
She had been educated in the best schools of the country, and continued to improve herself by constant familiarity with the best standard authors, whose merits she was fond of discussing with congenial friends. She was familiar with the periodic and newspaper literature of the day. . . .
Though so modest and free from presuming, she was in the highest degree self-appreciating and dignified with perfect individuality. Mingling in the best society of Washington City, on terms of easy intercourse with the families of diplomats, and the leading statesmen of the nation, never did she feel a moment’s elation or the slightest enlargement of her own importance.
. . . . As the wife of an able Congressman herself, she had rare opportunities during his term at Washington, to know the statesmen of that day. She had heard in legislative debate as well as in the desultory discussions and pleasantries of dining parties, the scintillations and ponderous word and thoughts of the illustrious Webster, whose powers and characteristics she portrayed to the writer of this poor tribute more accurately and interestingly than anything he had read or listened to from his most ardent friends.
Mrs. Freeman was a native of the great State of Kentucky, the second daughter of Judge Geo. Adams. . . .
The two brave and well known Confederate Generals in the late war, Daniel and Wirt Adams, were her brothers. The heroic Gen. Daniel Adams preceded his lamented sister only about one year to the city of the dead, in Jackson, where they calmly sleep.
As a mother and wife, daughter and sister, Mrs. Freeman was a perfect model of tenderness, devotion, fidelity and resignation. Like nearly all ladies her age at the South, she had been made acquainted with adversity as well as prosperity… But with equanimity philosophic and beautiful, she was neither elated on the one hand nor depressed on the other. No lady at the Capital of the State had entertained in her beautiful parlors with more accomplished and genial hospitality than her courtly husband and herself. . . .
She was a sincere, pure-minded, devoted Christian, without cant or simulacra. The Rev. Dr. Crane, Rector of St. Andrews Episcopal Church in this city, her pastor for many years, in his public address at the Church, declared that he had “never known her to fall short of one single duty” . . . . To do good, to exercise the broadest trust in the promises of our Savior, marked her exemplary life, as it did her death, or rather sleep, in the arms of her Savior.
G. W. M.
[Obituary provided by Paul Armstrong].
Death of Mrs. Gen. Freeman. – Mrs. Eliza Freeman, wife of Gen. Jno. D. Freeman, died at her residence in this city on Saturday evening last, at six o’clock, after a protracted and painful illness. Mrs. Freeman was the sister of Gen. Wirt Adams. She leaves a blessed memory to a large circle of relatives and friends. She departed this life in the 57th year of her age.
From the Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi, October 2, 1873:
The Late Mrs. Eliza Freeman
With the setting of a cloudless sun on Sept. 13th, 1873, Mrs. Eliza Freeman, consort of the Hon. John D. Freeman, of this city, peacefully and triumphantly entered upon her true life – the life of the soul. . . .
Mrs. Freeman was no ordinary person; but the attributes of her mind and character were so equally balanced and so adorned with the most charming modesty that she performed all the duties of life so graciously as not to attract special observation. . . .
She had been educated in the best schools of the country, and continued to improve herself by constant familiarity with the best standard authors, whose merits she was fond of discussing with congenial friends. She was familiar with the periodic and newspaper literature of the day. . . .
Though so modest and free from presuming, she was in the highest degree self-appreciating and dignified with perfect individuality. Mingling in the best society of Washington City, on terms of easy intercourse with the families of diplomats, and the leading statesmen of the nation, never did she feel a moment’s elation or the slightest enlargement of her own importance.
. . . . As the wife of an able Congressman herself, she had rare opportunities during his term at Washington, to know the statesmen of that day. She had heard in legislative debate as well as in the desultory discussions and pleasantries of dining parties, the scintillations and ponderous word and thoughts of the illustrious Webster, whose powers and characteristics she portrayed to the writer of this poor tribute more accurately and interestingly than anything he had read or listened to from his most ardent friends.
Mrs. Freeman was a native of the great State of Kentucky, the second daughter of Judge Geo. Adams. . . .
The two brave and well known Confederate Generals in the late war, Daniel and Wirt Adams, were her brothers. The heroic Gen. Daniel Adams preceded his lamented sister only about one year to the city of the dead, in Jackson, where they calmly sleep.
As a mother and wife, daughter and sister, Mrs. Freeman was a perfect model of tenderness, devotion, fidelity and resignation. Like nearly all ladies her age at the South, she had been made acquainted with adversity as well as prosperity… But with equanimity philosophic and beautiful, she was neither elated on the one hand nor depressed on the other. No lady at the Capital of the State had entertained in her beautiful parlors with more accomplished and genial hospitality than her courtly husband and herself. . . .
She was a sincere, pure-minded, devoted Christian, without cant or simulacra. The Rev. Dr. Crane, Rector of St. Andrews Episcopal Church in this city, her pastor for many years, in his public address at the Church, declared that he had “never known her to fall short of one single duty” . . . . To do good, to exercise the broadest trust in the promises of our Savior, marked her exemplary life, as it did her death, or rather sleep, in the arms of her Savior.
G. W. M.
[Obituary provided by Paul Armstrong].
From the Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi, September 18, 1873:
Death of Mrs. Gen. Freeman. – Mrs. Eliza Freeman, wife of Gen. Jno. D. Freeman, died at her residence in this city on Saturday evening last, at six o’clock, after a protracted and painful illness. Mrs. Freeman was the sister of Gen. Wirt Adams. She leaves a blessed memory to a large circle of relatives and friends. She departed this life in the 57th year of her age.
From the Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi, October 2, 1873:
The Late Mrs. Eliza Freeman
With the setting of a cloudless sun on Sept. 13th, 1873, Mrs. Eliza Freeman, consort of the Hon. John D. Freeman, of this city, peacefully and triumphantly entered upon her true life – the life of the soul. . . .
Mrs. Freeman was no ordinary person; but the attributes of her mind and character were so equally balanced and so adorned with the most charming modesty that she performed all the duties of life so graciously as not to attract special observation. . . .
She had been educated in the best schools of the country, and continued to improve herself by constant familiarity with the best standard authors, whose merits she was fond of discussing with congenial friends. She was familiar with the periodic and newspaper literature of the day. . . .
Though so modest and free from presuming, she was in the highest degree self-appreciating and dignified with perfect individuality. Mingling in the best society of Washington City, on terms of easy intercourse with the families of diplomats, and the leading statesmen of the nation, never did she feel a moment’s elation or the slightest enlargement of her own importance.
. . . . As the wife of an able Congressman herself, she had rare opportunities during his term at Washington, to know the statesmen of that day. She had heard in legislative debate as well as in the desultory discussions and pleasantries of dining parties, the scintillations and ponderous word and thoughts of the illustrious Webster, whose powers and characteristics she portrayed to the writer of this poor tribute more accurately and interestingly than anything he had read or listened to from his most ardent friends.
Mrs. Freeman was a native of the great State of Kentucky, the second daughter of Judge Geo. Adams. . . .
The two brave and well known Confederate Generals in the late war, Daniel and Wirt Adams, were her brothers. The heroic Gen. Daniel Adams preceded his lamented sister only about one year to the city of the dead, in Jackson, where they calmly sleep.
As a mother and wife, daughter and sister, Mrs. Freeman was a perfect model of tenderness, devotion, fidelity and resignation. Like nearly all ladies her age at the South, she had been made acquainted with adversity as well as prosperity… But with equanimity philosophic and beautiful, she was neither elated on the one hand nor depressed on the other. No lady at the Capital of the State had entertained in her beautiful parlors with more accomplished and genial hospitality than her courtly husband and herself. . . .
She was a sincere, pure-minded, devoted Christian, without cant or simulacra. The Rev. Dr. Crane, Rector of St. Andrews Episcopal Church in this city, her pastor for many years, in his public address at the Church, declared that he had “never known her to fall short of one single duty” . . . . To do good, to exercise the broadest trust in the promises of our Savior, marked her exemplary life, as it did her death, or rather sleep, in the arms of her Savior.
G. W. M.
[Obituary provided by Paul Armstrong].
Death of Mrs. Gen. Freeman. – Mrs. Eliza Freeman, wife of Gen. Jno. D. Freeman, died at her residence in this city on Saturday evening last, at six o’clock, after a protracted and painful illness. Mrs. Freeman was the sister of Gen. Wirt Adams. She leaves a blessed memory to a large circle of relatives and friends. She departed this life in the 57th year of her age.
From the Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi, October 2, 1873:
The Late Mrs. Eliza Freeman
With the setting of a cloudless sun on Sept. 13th, 1873, Mrs. Eliza Freeman, consort of the Hon. John D. Freeman, of this city, peacefully and triumphantly entered upon her true life – the life of the soul. . . .
Mrs. Freeman was no ordinary person; but the attributes of her mind and character were so equally balanced and so adorned with the most charming modesty that she performed all the duties of life so graciously as not to attract special observation. . . .
She had been educated in the best schools of the country, and continued to improve herself by constant familiarity with the best standard authors, whose merits she was fond of discussing with congenial friends. She was familiar with the periodic and newspaper literature of the day. . . .
Though so modest and free from presuming, she was in the highest degree self-appreciating and dignified with perfect individuality. Mingling in the best society of Washington City, on terms of easy intercourse with the families of diplomats, and the leading statesmen of the nation, never did she feel a moment’s elation or the slightest enlargement of her own importance.
. . . . As the wife of an able Congressman herself, she had rare opportunities during his term at Washington, to know the statesmen of that day. She had heard in legislative debate as well as in the desultory discussions and pleasantries of dining parties, the scintillations and ponderous word and thoughts of the illustrious Webster, whose powers and characteristics she portrayed to the writer of this poor tribute more accurately and interestingly than anything he had read or listened to from his most ardent friends.
Mrs. Freeman was a native of the great State of Kentucky, the second daughter of Judge Geo. Adams. . . .
The two brave and well known Confederate Generals in the late war, Daniel and Wirt Adams, were her brothers. The heroic Gen. Daniel Adams preceded his lamented sister only about one year to the city of the dead, in Jackson, where they calmly sleep.
As a mother and wife, daughter and sister, Mrs. Freeman was a perfect model of tenderness, devotion, fidelity and resignation. Like nearly all ladies her age at the South, she had been made acquainted with adversity as well as prosperity… But with equanimity philosophic and beautiful, she was neither elated on the one hand nor depressed on the other. No lady at the Capital of the State had entertained in her beautiful parlors with more accomplished and genial hospitality than her courtly husband and herself. . . .
She was a sincere, pure-minded, devoted Christian, without cant or simulacra. The Rev. Dr. Crane, Rector of St. Andrews Episcopal Church in this city, her pastor for many years, in his public address at the Church, declared that he had “never known her to fall short of one single duty” . . . . To do good, to exercise the broadest trust in the promises of our Savior, marked her exemplary life, as it did her death, or rather sleep, in the arms of her Savior.
G. W. M.
[Obituary provided by Paul Armstrong].
