CO A 14 W.VA.INF
Thomas Freeman, War Veteran, Dies
Former Resident of Homer Succumbs
At Soldiers' Homer.
Danville Commercial News
Monday, December 11, 1922, page 16
Thomas Freeman, 81, veteran of the civil war, a resident of Danville for half a century and in his earlier days, an employee of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railway, and also engaged in the real estate business, died at the hospital at the National Soldiers" home at 11 o'clock Saturday night.
He was removed from his home, 504 Robinson street, to the Soldiers' Home, Saturday afternoon.
The body was removed to the undertaking parlors of Mater & Salladay and prepared for burial and will be taken to Homer for the interment at the G. A. R. cemetery.
Mr. Freeman was born in Boordyville, Va., in 1841, and grew up there. He was asympathizer with the Union and was compelled to leave that section of the country because of these beliefs. He went to Cumberland, Md., where, on July 28, 1864, he enlisted in Company A of the Fourteenth West Virginia Volunteer infantry, and served until after the close of the war, being mustered out of the service June 25, 1865. He came west shortly after the close of his enlistment and reside in Homer.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Martha Freeman, who resided at the old home place. John Freeman many years a printer on the old Danville News, after a circulation worker for The Commercial-News and now a traveling salesman, is a foster son of the couple.
(Transcribed by the Homer Historical Society)
Thomas Freeman, War Veteran, Dies
Former Resident of Homer Succumbs
At Soldiers' Homer.
Danville Commercial News
Monday, December 11, 1922, page 16
Thomas Freeman, 81, veteran of the civil war, a resident of Danville for half a century and in his earlier days, an employee of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railway, and also engaged in the real estate business, died at the hospital at the National Soldiers" home at 11 o'clock Saturday night.
He was removed from his home, 504 Robinson street, to the Soldiers' Home, Saturday afternoon.
The body was removed to the undertaking parlors of Mater & Salladay and prepared for burial and will be taken to Homer for the interment at the G. A. R. cemetery.
Mr. Freeman was born in Boordyville, Va., in 1841, and grew up there. He was asympathizer with the Union and was compelled to leave that section of the country because of these beliefs. He went to Cumberland, Md., where, on July 28, 1864, he enlisted in Company A of the Fourteenth West Virginia Volunteer infantry, and served until after the close of the war, being mustered out of the service June 25, 1865. He came west shortly after the close of his enlistment and reside in Homer.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Martha Freeman, who resided at the old home place. John Freeman many years a printer on the old Danville News, after a circulation worker for The Commercial-News and now a traveling salesman, is a foster son of the couple.
(Transcribed by the Homer Historical Society)
CO A 14 W.VA.INF
Thomas Freeman, War Veteran, Dies
Former Resident of Homer Succumbs
At Soldiers' Homer.
Danville Commercial News
Monday, December 11, 1922, page 16
Thomas Freeman, 81, veteran of the civil war, a resident of Danville for half a century and in his earlier days, an employee of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railway, and also engaged in the real estate business, died at the hospital at the National Soldiers" home at 11 o'clock Saturday night.
He was removed from his home, 504 Robinson street, to the Soldiers' Home, Saturday afternoon.
The body was removed to the undertaking parlors of Mater & Salladay and prepared for burial and will be taken to Homer for the interment at the G. A. R. cemetery.
Mr. Freeman was born in Boordyville, Va., in 1841, and grew up there. He was asympathizer with the Union and was compelled to leave that section of the country because of these beliefs. He went to Cumberland, Md., where, on July 28, 1864, he enlisted in Company A of the Fourteenth West Virginia Volunteer infantry, and served until after the close of the war, being mustered out of the service June 25, 1865. He came west shortly after the close of his enlistment and reside in Homer.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Martha Freeman, who resided at the old home place. John Freeman many years a printer on the old Danville News, after a circulation worker for The Commercial-News and now a traveling salesman, is a foster son of the couple.
(Transcribed by the Homer Historical Society)
Thomas Freeman, War Veteran, Dies
Former Resident of Homer Succumbs
At Soldiers' Homer.
Danville Commercial News
Monday, December 11, 1922, page 16
Thomas Freeman, 81, veteran of the civil war, a resident of Danville for half a century and in his earlier days, an employee of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railway, and also engaged in the real estate business, died at the hospital at the National Soldiers" home at 11 o'clock Saturday night.
He was removed from his home, 504 Robinson street, to the Soldiers' Home, Saturday afternoon.
The body was removed to the undertaking parlors of Mater & Salladay and prepared for burial and will be taken to Homer for the interment at the G. A. R. cemetery.
Mr. Freeman was born in Boordyville, Va., in 1841, and grew up there. He was asympathizer with the Union and was compelled to leave that section of the country because of these beliefs. He went to Cumberland, Md., where, on July 28, 1864, he enlisted in Company A of the Fourteenth West Virginia Volunteer infantry, and served until after the close of the war, being mustered out of the service June 25, 1865. He came west shortly after the close of his enlistment and reside in Homer.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Martha Freeman, who resided at the old home place. John Freeman many years a printer on the old Danville News, after a circulation worker for The Commercial-News and now a traveling salesman, is a foster son of the couple.
(Transcribed by the Homer Historical Society)
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