John Freeman Died Of Cancer

JOHN FREEMAN DIED OF CANCER

WELL KNOWN OLD RESIDENT HAS PASSED AWAY

Had Lived In Ann Arbor Over Fifty Years-A Good Citizen and Highly Respected

John Freeman, of 724 Miller avenue, died Wednesday night at 12 o'clock of cancer of the throat, aged 76 years.

Mr. Freeman was born at Bath, N. Y., April 6, 1827, and was the son of John and Mary Freeman, natives of New York state. He grew to manhood in the east and acquired there a good education. He came to Ann Arbor when twenty-one years of age and went into the barber business with his uncle continuing for some twenty years when he retired on account of ill-health and entered the draying business. In 1854 he was married to Elizabeth Kenney, of Jackson, who with one daughter- Mrs. Samuel Bayliss, of this city - survives him. In 1848 he became a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow bodies and at the time of his death was a Knight Templar and Thirty-third Degree Mason and also grand treasurer of the Michigan grand lodge of colored Masons. He was a good citizen, a kind husband and father and one of the best known men in the city, as he drayed for over thirty years for several of the prominent firms of the city.

He was a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal church at which place the funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, Rev. Henry Tatlock officiating.