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DAVID FREEMAN
DAVID FREEMAN is another of the tillers of the soil of Meriwether
County, who by industry and uprightness have attained prosperity.
He is a grand son of James and Rebecca (Rymes) Freeman, the former a native of Tennessee, but who
passed the greater part of his life in the city of Rome, Georgia. He was a soldier in the war of 1812.
His son, J. C., was born in Clinton, Jones County, Georgia, in 1819, and married Miss Amanda Neal, a
daughter of James and Mary (Rucker) Neal, the former a native of Warren County, Georgia, and a soldier
of the Revolution. Mr. Freeman moved to Meriwether County in 1848; he served during the late war in the
state militia, and has represented his district, Griffin district, in congress.
His son, David Freeman, was born in Zebulon, Pike County, in 1847; he has passed not only his early
years, but those of manhood also, on the farm in Meriwether County, still residing in the old homestead,
and within sight of one of the first houses built in the county, which is a part of his property. The
Flint River, on whose borders his plantation lies, is here somewhat shallow, which gives the place its
name, “Flat Shoals.”
In the old Flat Shoals College young Freeman obtained a part of his education, which he completed in
Griffin. He has been more fortunate than many in the respect of excellent educational opportunities. As
a farmer and a man of business he has been prospered and is well respected by all.
Source: Memoirs of Georgia, Containing historical accounts of the states civil, military, industrial and professional interests and personal sketches of many of it’s people, Volume II, The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 1895
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