The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-03-11
PIONEER Of COUNTY
MRS. JULIA FREEMAN, WHO DIED
AT RAPIDAN TUESDAY.
She Was a Well-Kn0wn and Highly
Respected Resident Of Blue Earth;
Had Endeared a Large Number of
People TO Her By Possession of
Many Christian Virtues; a De-
voted Wife and Mother.
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
Julia +. Burdit was born in Gull
pepper county, West Virginia, on the
|twenty-fourth day of August, 1927,
Her father died before she was born
land her mother was married again
Ito one Richard ScanlOn, with whom,
together with her mother, she moved
ito Randolph county, Indiana, this at
the age of about ten years. Before
1.-THE age OF thirteen was reached she
was deprived of the guiding hand of
lher mother, who died, leaving her an
orphan.
At the age of twertv-one she was
married to Valentine Freeman and con-
tinued to reside i'm The state of In
diana where was born tc them Il fam
lily of four daughters and five sons.
iOf this number, all grew to woman
and manhood except one daughter and
lone son. She is survived by three
daughters; Katherine Chantler, Laura
lB. Shores, and Jennie l.. Burgess; and
by three sons, Charles j., John w.
and William F., all of the state of
Minnesota.
In the fall of 1873, the deceased, to-
lgether with her husband, three daugh-
tiers and four sons, moved to Blue
Earth county, Minnesota. In May. 1882,
valentine Freeman died and the de-
Leased has since made her home with
her children. Coming to Minnesota at
$50 early a day was only to meet
with many trials and hardships Incl
dent to pioneer life among which was
the terrible devastation of the grass
~Ihoppers, and which extended over a
period of seven years. During all
these years almost no crops were
planted and those that were only
served to feed the pest. 1t was dur
ing these years that the deceased la
bored and managed, as only a loving
mother can, to clothe and provide for
her four sons and to keep them in the
country schools.
While still young, the deceased be-
came a member of the Christian church
lin the state of Indiana. On coming
to Minnesota at so early a date and
living in the remote districts of the
Icounty, where no church or church SER
vices could be had, she was not active
ly identified, for a number of years,
with any church. Later she joined the
christian church at Eagle Lake in the
county of Blue Earth and was at the
time of her demise an active member
iOf that church organization. 1t is in
teresting to note that an account of
her christian zeal and her desire TO
know more of the word of God thai
she undertook, at the age of seventy
three, to learn to read. Though nm
liable to read before that advanced age,
she became fairly proficient i'll the
TART of reading and spent a portion of
each day in reading and studying the
scriptures.
Julia F. Freeman died at six o'clock
lin the afternoon of March /. She was
la devoted Christian woman, loved by
her kinsfolks and respected by all who
knew her. Although she reached an
age some thirteen years beyond the
Ialloted 'three score years and ten,"
tNcb IL iCidUiNtS dIu Z lIitIiuS II
it hard to give her up. She will be
buried in the family lot in the ceme-
terry at Eagle Lake, Mimi, and there
beside her husband she will rest and
sleep that long sweet sleep that 'kisses
Idown the eye-lids STILL"
The funeral services were held at the
home Of her daughter, Laura B., wife
of c. NJ. Shores, at their home in Rap
idan, March 4. The text selected by
the deceased is found in 2 Cor. 3:l,
and reads: "For we know That if our
earthly house of this tabernacle were
dissolved. we nave a building of God,
an house not made with hands, eternal
in the heavens. These services were in
lcharoe Of Rev. c. B. Oseood, pastor
lof the Christian church in Mankatn,
and several beautiful songs were rem
dered by the Misses Pfeffer. Ethel
Weller, Myrtle Van Sickle and Mrs.
Albert just and w. A. just and Frank
NELSON. The flowers, gifts of friends
and %neighbOrs, we're lovely and pro-