Ann Rutledge Freeman

Abt 1820 - 1897  (77 years)

• Name	Ann Rutledge Freeman
  Birth	Abt 1820	NC
  Gender	Female
  _UID	1BDBBC43E1CA654B86EE2966F7242B57F09E
  Death	1897	Lawrence Co., TN
  Person ID	I59952	sorrells
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2020

  
  

  Father	Samuel Freeman,   b. Abt 1776, NC d. 23 Dec 1855, Leoma, Lawrence Co., NC (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Mary S. Lynch,   b. Abt 1793, NC d. 22 Jun 1869, Lawrence Co., TN (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	17 Oct 1807	Orange Co., NC
  Family ID	F15983	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Ann Rutledge Freemon Birth 1813 Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA Death 1897 (aged 83–84) Lawrence County, Tennessee, USA Burial Freemon Cemetery Lawrence County, Tennessee, USA Memorial ID 16124217 Ann Rutledge Freemon was born ca. 1813 on Black Mountain, Buncombe Co., North Carolina, the daughter of Samuel L. and Mary S. "Polly" Lynch Freemon. Ann died ca. 1897 in Lawrence Co., Tennessee and was buried in the Freemon Cemetery in Leoma, Tennessee. When Lawrence Co., Tennessee was first settled doctors were scarce, so the women of the different communities took their place. In the Leoma area of the county, Ann Freemon and Elizabeth Hughs were two such women. They would go into the woods and gather herbs and use them to make medicine to care for both family and neighbor when sickness struck. They learned much about the medicinal value of the native plants from the first settlers of the Leoma area, the Indians. Using this newly aquired knowledge in conjunction with their own experiences in treating the various ills and accidents of their world, they were better able to tend their patients. In the 1880 Lawrence Co., Tennessee census, Ann is 65 and living in the household of Albert Freemon. The is no record that Ann ever married and is listed under her maiden name in the census. @MAH 2009