Co. F, 41st Tenn. Infantry in Civil War.
Co. H, 7th Arkansas Infantry in Civil War.
Co. H, 7th Arkansas Infantry
Born about 1843. His father died about the time of his birth and hismother died before he was two years ol. The 1859 Tennessee census showshe is being raised by his grand parents Alexander and Anna Freeman. Hetravels with his grand parents to Arkansas and is listed in the 1860Arkansas census in the household of Anna Freeman. At 18 years of age in1862 he joins the Confederate Army by enlisting in Company H, 7thArkansas Infantry. He was killed April 6, 1862 in the battle at ShilohTennessee. He is buried in a mass grave on the battlefield. Of the 1000men of the 7th who started battle that day less than 400 answered musteron April 7, 1862. This was the first battle the 7th was engaged in.Before the end of the War the 7th would suffer greater than 90% killed orwounded.
95. Theophilus Rucker Freeman Sr.
T. R. is buried in Hazel Cemetery in Bell Buckle, Tn. In 1980 when Ivisited Bell Buckle for the first time, Dub Bomar was still living, andhe remembered carrying T. R. around in a buggy to different functions inthe county. He told me that the Freemans were a very passive lot and thechurch at Cross Road wouln't open without a Freeman being on the porch towelcome the person opening the Bldg.
He also stated that the Freeman mother and father retired a soon asan older son got married. They would move in with him and his newbride. He really got a good laugh when he found out that I had retiredat age 45.
Dub also brought out an old double bladed broad axe and told me itwas a Freeman axe. He ask me if I knew how he could tell. My answer wasno. He said it had never been used. A nice way of saying that theFreemans weren't too ambitious.
Bell Buckle, Tn. It's a small town when Third St. is on the edge of town.
I do not know the cause of death of Margaret Bingham, but she wouldappear to be a classic case of the early frontier wife. Her first childborn at 16. At 17 with two small children she traveled from Tennessee toArkansas by wagon train. Two more children by age 22, dead at age 25.She and T.R. married when she was 15. I think the name was really Bighamback in Tennessee.
Lunnenburg, Ark. It's a small town when the all night diner closes at 6P.M.
Never Married
No Children--Younger sister of 2nd wife. Raised her children.
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481. William Algernon Lavender
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