Father--Martin Freeman

Immigrated 1878

Married 10-30-1900 Catherine Bliss



CASS CITY, Chronicle FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1937. pg 1 & 8

PROMINENT MERICHANT OF, GAGETOWN DIED
SUDDENLY SATURDAY

Moses P. Freeman Was Township and Village
Clerk for 27-Year Periods.

WAS OUTSTANDING MEMBER OF ST. AGATHA'S CHURCH

By Gagetown Correspondent.

Gagetown lost one of its most prominent
business men in the death of Moses P.
Freeman,who has been a resident here
nearly all of his life. Mr. Freeman was
taken ill while waiting on a customer in
the store at 10:30 Saturday morning, then
went home and passed away at 12:30 p.m.
from a heart attack.
Funeral services were held at St. Agatha's
Church Tuesday at 10:0O a.m. A solemn
requiem high mass was solemnized by Rev. Fr.
McCullough, assisted by Rev. Fr. Dorsey
of Bad Axe as deacon and Rev. Fr. Walker of
Pinnebog as sub-deacon. Entombment was
made in St. Agatha's Cemetery.
Moses P. Freeman was born in Teeswater,
Ontario, on January 1, 1876. He came to
Michigan when two years old with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Freeman, who settled on
a farm 3½ miles northwest of Gagetown.
When sixteen years of age, he was employed
as clerk in the store of J. M. Young and in
1903 went into the general merchandising
and grocery business for himself in the
same building where he has since had his
store. Mr. Freeman was an outstanding
member of St. Agatha's Church, being usher
for thirty years and taking an active part
in all its social activities as well as its
religious affairs. He was elected and held
office of township clerk and village clerk
for the past twenty-seven years. He was a
member of the Elks of Bay City Lodge, the
Holy Name Society, and a member of the
village council for several years. He was
married October 30, 1900, to Catherine
Bliss, who survives.
Besides his wife, he leaves five brothers,
a twin brother, Joseph, Thomas and Arthur
of Gagetown,

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Patrick of Detroit, and Martin of Saginaw;
two sisters, Mrs. Warren Jaynes of Twining
and Mrs. Arthur Burdon of Gagetown.
Business places were closed during the funeral
services. Active pall bearers were Wesley
Downing, Fred Hemerick, Alfred Rocheleau,
Arthur Carolan, George Purdy and George
Munro. The business men of the town
were honorary pall bearers.
Those from a distance who attended the
funeral were Mr. and Mrs. John Goeschel,
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Freeman, Mr. and Mrs.
Leslie Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Freeman,
and Mr: and Mrs. Clem Lenhard of Saginaw,
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Stewart of Caro, Frank
Bliss of Cass City, Thomas Bliss and
family of Midland, Mr. and Mrs. Warren
Jaynes of Twining, Mrs. Willard Cornel
of Harbor Springs, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. Frank O'Neal,
Mr. and Mrs. Simon Walsh and family of
Pontiac, Mrs. Luke Walsh and family,
Mrs. Phoebe Bartholomy and daughter,
Lucile, Mrs. Helen Sugnet, Mrs. Bridget
Walsh, Mrs. George DeWallin, Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel Kehoe, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Freeman,
Mrs. Richard Case and Mr. and Mrs.
Patrick Freeman of Detroit, Mrs. Vera
Malloy and daughter, Mary Jane, and son,
Ned, of Williams Lake, Pontiac.