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Surnames: FREEMAN, HOLT, LAVENDER, LONG, NOEL, RAINBOLT
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, March 13, 1924, Volume XLVIII,
Number 18, Page 5, Column 4, “COUNTY NEWS. HOBBIEVILLE. Center Township.” [Transcribed on
September 26, 2005 by RLJ from microfilm of the original newspaper on file in the
Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library.]
Winfred FREEMAN, an aged and respected man, who has been ill of cancer for several years,
died at his home her last Saturday night, leaving an aged wife an two sons and four
daughter. The children are Esaias FREEMAN, of Bicknell; Ed FREEMAN, of Bedford; Mrs. Rosa
NOEL, of Oolitic; Mrs. Emma LONG, of Aliceville; Mrs. Florence HOLT, of this place and
Mrs. Ella LAVENDER, at home, and several grandchildren. He also leaves one brother, Joe
FREEMAN, of this place, and one sister, Mrs. Sarah RAINBOLT, of Washington, Township; also
a host of friends and relatives to mourn his departure. He was laid to rest in the family
cemetery here, Monday.
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, March 20, 1924, Volume XLVIII,
Number 19, Page 5, Column 4, “COUNTY NEWS. SEXSON SPRING—Jackson Township.” [Transcribed
on September 26, 2005 by RLJ from microfilm of the original newspaper on file in the
Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library.]
In the last issue of your paper I noticed an account of the death of Wilburn FREEMAN, of
Hobbieville. I knew him as a citizen and as a soldier. In civil live a good citizen,
neighbor and friend, and he was my comrade in the Civil War. He had lived in Greene
County practically all his life. He enlisted as a private in Captain Thomas FLINN
company—COMPANY E, NINETY SEVENTH REGIMENT INDIANA INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS—on August 18, 1862;
and was with his company and regiment continually until its muster out of service at the
close of the war at Washington City, D. C., June 9, 1865. He was in the battles of
Vicksburg and Jackson, Mississippi; Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain, Tennessee; Resaca,
Dallas, New Hope Church, Lost and Kennesaw Mountains, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Griswoldville
and Savannah, Georgia, and Bentonville, N. C. He was generally known among his comrades
in the regiment as “Wem” FREEMAN, and the government never had a braver or better!
soldier, nor one who was so universally esteemed, as comrade, by both officers and men
of his company and regiment. Whatever duty or danger he was called to meet, he never
complained but was always ready and willing to go where ordered, and in the long, hard,
tiresome marches was always the quiet, patient and dutiful soldier, as all his comrades
know who knew him, and all feel a pang of sorrow who knew of his long fight for life and
his painful sufferings, and his passing away, and extend their sincere sympathy to his
widow and children and friends in time of their bereavement. J. D. A.