People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1894 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

Abraham Freeland died at th e home of his son, A. J. Freeland, in Newton township, Jasper county, Dec 23, 1894. He was born in Maryland, April 11, 1800, where he lived until married. He afterward moyed to northern Ohio where ■‘ r he lived many years. He came to this state in 1847, not long after bought the property on which he lived until death. He was the father of seven children four daughters and three sons. John; a soldier in the war with Mexico, died soon after returning ho|ie; Charles died later in Newtem county, Mrs. John Moyer and Mrs. Philip Cole live in Kansas, Mrs. Petty resides in Nebraska and Sarah, wife of Samuel Long, parents of A. F. Long, the druggist, live in Newton county, Ind. Tne deceased was a man of great liberality and of the strictest integrity, and one who hated what he thought was wrong, and loved what he believed was right. The remains were buried in Weston cemetery, last Monday.