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Agnes Suiter Freeman Timeline

(in parentheses:  relationship to Agnes Suiter)

abt 1770 Jacob Suiter (great-grandfather) born in Pennsylvania
1776
  • Birth of U.S.
abt 1794 Jacob Suiter and Margaret Masters (great-grandparents) married
1799 Philip Jacob Suiter (grandfather) born in Lawrence Co., Ohio
1819 Philip Jacob Suiter and Sarah Shores (grandparents) married in Lawrence Co., Ohio
1822 John Halford Suiter (father) born in West Port, Ohio
1834 Philip Suiter moved his family to LeClaire, Iowa.   Sarah Shores may have died.
1842 John Halford Suiter and Eliza Jane Wright (parents) married in LeClaire, Iowa
1843 John Halford Suiter began work as a rapids pilot in Le Claire

Elizabeth Agnes Suiter born in LeClaire, Scott County, Iowa

1857-8 Agnes Suiter entered Abingdon College, age 14
1861
  • start of US Civil War
1862 Agnes's fiance, James Freeman, died
1865
  • end of Civil War

Agnes Suiter and Daniel Freeman married in LeClaire, Iowa, and moved to their homestead land in Blakely Township, 4 miles from Beatrice, Gage Co., Nebraska

1866 Eliza Jane Freeman born (first of 8 children)
1867
  •  Nebraska became the 37th state in the US
1880 little Daniel Jr. died, age 3 (Agnes's 5th child)
1886 Edward Leslie Carre (first of about 32 grandchildren), born to Eliza Jane and Webster Carre
1889 Agnes May Freeman born (last of 8 children)
1908 Daniel Freeman died, age 82
1914-19
  • World War I
1925 James Harvey Freeman died, age 55 (Agnes's 3rd child)
1926 James Freeman Quackenbush (youngest of about 32 grandchildren) born to Agnes May and Clifford Quackenbush
1929
  • Stock Market Crash and beginning of Great Depression
1931 Elizabeth Agnes Suiter Freeman died, age 87
1936 US Congress authorized the establishment of Homestead National Monument of America
1938-9 Homestead Land sold to US Government by 6 heirs of Agnes, for 18,000 dollars, and Homestead National Monument of America established.
2003 Grandchildren, great-grandchildren, gg-grandchildren, ggg-grandchildren, and gggg-grandchildren of Daniel and Agnes Suiter Freeman are living around the US and the world.

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