Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey, his ancestors and descendants of the Abbey family, pathfinders, soldiers and pioneer settlers of Connecticut, its Western Reserve in Ohio and the great West .. . Bust by EMID YANDELL, Scuptor and reduced signature of Joel Francis Freeman, 18361810. A sketch of his life will be found in volume XVof the National Cyclopedia of American Biogrophy,pages 276 and 277. 117 brass andirons used in the parlor and the brass and steel andironsused in the big fireplace in the dining room. The mahoganytable with elaborately carved legs belonged to Lieutenant EdgarFreeman, 17
Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey, his ancestors and descendants of the Abbey family, pathfinders, soldiers and pioneer settlers of Connecticut, its Western Reserve in Ohio and the great West .. . Bust by EMID YANDELL, Scuptor and reduced signature of Joel Francis Freeman, 18361810. A sketch of his life will be found in volume XVof the National Cyclopedia of American Biogrophy,pages 276 and 277. 117 brass andirons used in the parlor and the brass and steel andironsused in the big fireplace in the dining room. The mahoganytable with elaborately carved legs belonged to Lieutenant EdgarFreeman, 1789-1871. His line of the family became extinct whenhis daughter, Gertrude Freeman, died in 1914. In her will shebequeathed to me her fathers miniature and the tea service ofSheffield plate presented to him by his brother officers when heretired from the navy in 1828. A sketch of his life will befound on page 119. I make mention of these venerable householdeffects for the reason that I am now the only person living whoknows the history of the o1d pieces. I wish the record of thempreserved and I know of no better way to preserve it than toprint it in this little FRANCES MARIA ABBEY Widow of Joel Francis Freeman and donor of the Abbey-Memorial. From the statuette by Enid Yandell, donor and all of her four children were born in theWestern Reserve of Connecticut in Cleveland, Ohio. Alexander Freeman, 1807-1839, son of Joel Freeman, mar-ried Hannah Maria Low, a member of the Dutch family on whoseland Vassar College now stands, and a descendant of the Mott,Fort and Pell families. These were the parents of Joel FrancisFreeman, 1836-1910, of East Orange, N. J., who married FrancesMaria Abbey, daughter of Judge Seth Alden Abbey, and donorof the Abbey Memorial in Enfield. 118 Lieutenant Edgar Freeman, U* S, N. Lieutenant Edgar Freeman, 1789-1871, son of Israel Free-mans youngest brother, Henry Freeman, 3d, had an eventfulcareer. In 1811, when twenty-two, he entered t
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