Horace Freeman, better known as "Dad" Freeman, died yesterday afternoon at St. Alphonsus hospital after a brief illness. The funeral arrangements have not yet been made. Mr. Freeman was 78 years of age. A good many years ago he made Boise his home, but for a number of years had lived in the Wood river country. His only known relative is a step-daughter, Mrs. Mary Straight of this city.
Mr. Freeman was one of the pioneers. He came west as a trail blazer and was always restless until he could get into the newer country. He was a man of marvelous constitution and until a year ago hardly knew what it was to have a sick day.
He decided to leave Wood river for the winter, but instead of taking the cars, to which he bore considerable antipathy, he drove a team over, being rained on nearly every foot of the way to Boise. He contracted a cold on the trip that forced him to take to his bed, and he never got up. When asked why he had driven over he said he had a team that did not match and he wanted to match them here before returning to Wood river.
The deceased was a Mason and that order will have charge of the funeral arrangements.
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Enumerated in the 1870 census with sisters Sarah G. (wife of Isaac Barclay) and Maria Louise Freeman. They were children of Richard W. Freeman and Abigail Bowers.
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And Still They Come
Those who imagine that the silver question is thought of seriously only in the West, and that the only issue which presents itself to the farmers of the great valley is that of the tariff, should read the following sample of the present turn of intelligent minds in the state of Illinois. Colonel D. Freeman is a nephew of Mr. Horace M. Freeman, a well and favorably known old-timer of Wood River. It is from the Lewiston (Ill.) News, of February 22d: ...
The Ketchum Keystone
Ketchum, Idaho
17 Mar 1894
p. 2
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86091095/1894-03-17/ed-1/seq-2/
Horace Freeman, better known as "Dad" Freeman, died yesterday afternoon at St. Alphonsus hospital after a brief illness. The funeral arrangements have not yet been made. Mr. Freeman was 78 years of age. A good many years ago he made Boise his home, but for a number of years had lived in the Wood river country. His only known relative is a step-daughter, Mrs. Mary Straight of this city.
Mr. Freeman was one of the pioneers. He came west as a trail blazer and was always restless until he could get into the newer country. He was a man of marvelous constitution and until a year ago hardly knew what it was to have a sick day.
He decided to leave Wood river for the winter, but instead of taking the cars, to which he bore considerable antipathy, he drove a team over, being rained on nearly every foot of the way to Boise. He contracted a cold on the trip that forced him to take to his bed, and he never got up. When asked why he had driven over he said he had a team that did not match and he wanted to match them here before returning to Wood river.
The deceased was a Mason and that order will have charge of the funeral arrangements.
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Enumerated in the 1870 census with sisters Sarah G. (wife of Isaac Barclay) and Maria Louise Freeman. They were children of Richard W. Freeman and Abigail Bowers.
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And Still They Come
Those who imagine that the silver question is thought of seriously only in the West, and that the only issue which presents itself to the farmers of the great valley is that of the tariff, should read the following sample of the present turn of intelligent minds in the state of Illinois. Colonel D. Freeman is a nephew of Mr. Horace M. Freeman, a well and favorably known old-timer of Wood River. It is from the Lewiston (Ill.) News, of February 22d: ...
The Ketchum Keystone
Ketchum, Idaho
17 Mar 1894
p. 2
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86091095/1894-03-17/ed-1/seq-2/
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