It's taken four years to return to this post, but here we finally are! Over the last two months, I've shared family research of my Freeman line. While this post regarding John and Tabitha Hoyter Freeman was one of the first I wrote of the family, further research as well as DNA testing have proven [...]
We’ve discussed my 2x great-grandmother, Mattie Ann Freeman; her father, William Harrison Freeman; and his father, Micajah Freeman, and his father, Micajah Freeman Senior. Today we move to the sixth generation and Micajah Senior’s father, William Freeman. For a long time, I believed that William was a son of John Freeman and Tabitha Hoyter. But [...]
We move now to the next generation of Freemans and my 4th great-grandfather, Micajah Freeman. Years ago, when I first discovered this unfamiliar name, I remember turning to my mother and saying, "Mack-a-jaw? What kind of name is Mack-a-jaw?" I've since learned the "j" is silent and is pronounced "Muh-kai-yuh" but it's still a story [...]
Of all the branches within my tree, one of the proudest of by its descendants is that of the Freeman family. My great-grandfather, Freeman Wildrick, was blessed with his mother's surname as a first name, the act of which was my first indication that she, and her family, were especially proud of their heritage. And [...]
BRIANNA WRIGHT 