About: Abagail Freemantle

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Abagail's parents, John and Rebecca, were freed slaves. Prior to the Civil War, John's master had been one Sam Freemantle of Lewis, South Carolina; but the two men had had an agreeable relationship, enough so that John stayed on as a paid laborer after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. Like many freedmen in those days, he took his former master's surname.

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rdfs:label	Abagail Freemantle
rdfs:comment	Abagail's parents, John and Rebecca, were freed slaves. Prior to the Civil War, John's master had been one Sam Freemantle of Lewis, South Carolina; but the two men had had an agreeable relationship, enough so that John stayed on as a paid laborer after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. Like many freedmen in those days, he took his former master's surname.
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abstract	Abagail's parents, John and Rebecca, were freed slaves. Prior to the Civil War, John's master had been one Sam Freemantle of Lewis, South Carolina; but the two men had had an agreeable relationship, enough so that John stayed on as a paid laborer after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. Like many freedmen in those days, he took his former master's surname. Eight years into the Reconstruction, John relocated his family to Hemingford Home, Nebraska with a handsome severance package from Sam, which he used to buy farmland. Hardworking, innovative and honest, John faced hardship and racial prejudice, but eventually won the respect of most of his neighbors. By 1902, in a landmark vote, John was invited to join the Nebraska cooperative farmer's alliance known as the Grange, giving him and his family "a chance to prosper with the rest of the corn belt." Abagail was the youngest of John and Rebecca's children. She married and outlived a succession of three husbands — David Trotts, Henry Hardestry and Nate Brooks — and had children by all of them, six sons and one daughter, all of whom she also outlived. By the time of the superflu epidemic, Abagail had an estimated thirty-two grandchildren, ninety-one great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren. Presumably, they all perished in the plague.

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