Violet Jaunita Freeman Birth Date: 10/24/1928 Deceased Date: 12/25/2014 Sex: F Click Here For My Photo: PHOTO Father's Current Name: Coy Aubrie Freeman Mother's Current Name: Myrtle Ideal Capps Mother's Maiden Name: Mayer
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Dear Chuck,
You come from a long line of good (and some outlaw) people. My grandpa came from Germany, when he was seven years old, to Canada. He married a lady who was also German. Their last name was Mayer. They had twelve children. The youngest baby girl was my mom, Myrtle Capps (she had married Coy Freeman and later Bud Capps). There was a younger baby boy named Montez Mayer (other siblings names not supplied).
They migrated from Canada to Nebraska by wagon train. The natives called the older girls coyboy girls. They later migrated from Nebraska to Arkansas where Myrtle married Coy Freeman, one of (eleven known) children.
The Freeman family started out in the 1700's. That I know about. There was a religious uprising in London, England. They sent some indentured slaves to the new world. They landed in what is now Maryland and worked their way out of bondage and called themselves Freeman or Free Men. So you see we come from slavery too. I also know a number of black people who are named Freeman.
Grandpa George Freeman married a part Choctaw native woman, Liza Beth Pack .
I was 13 years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Mother and father married and had four girls and two sons (one which died soon after birth) during the depression. We all went by truck to Washington state as fruit pickers.
Before that, in Arkansas, there where two cousins of Coy Freeman, Lloyd and Harold Freeman, who robbed, stole, and held up stores, gas stations, and banks. They were caught twice so one more time and they would be three time losers and have to spend life in prison. So they gave up the wild life.
We ended up in La Pine, Oregon and it was a very small town of about 300 people.
I married a returning World War II soldier named Raymond Miller. We had two sons, Bryson King Miller, now 47 (as of 1995) and Steven Roger Miller now 45. After three years we moved to Oakland, Califonia where I divorced Raymond Miller. I then married David/Daneil (?) Hall and we had a boy and a girl, Douglas Edward Hall, now 41, and Christine Renie Hall, now 40, your cousins. After three years I divorced him and married William Allen Strafford who was a navy (?) man.
While married to him your mother married my first husband, Ray Miller, twelve years after I had divorced him. They treated me like a queen when I visited them. We had a good relationship. Raymond would introduce us as, "This is my wife Patty and this is the mother of my children..."
William Allen Strafford and I have one daughter, Denise Michelle, now 36. I was married to him for 14 years and have lived alone now for 24 years.
Bryson King Miller went to Vietnam where he had a son and daughter. Then he came home and married Linda who had a daughter Ineg who he adopted. She now has two boys and a girl. Bryson and Linda had two children, one (daughter?), now 20, and Dawn, now 18.
Steven Miller so far has never married.
Douglas and Lisa Hall have Megon, now 11, and another child (daughter?), now 2.
Christine has a daughter Rachel, now 18, and Sarah, now 16, and my first (American) grandson Cliff, who is now 12.
Denise married Ron Hunt (?) and they have Molly (?), now 5, and Monica, now 3. And we are expecting another baby in January.
With my eight (or nine if you count Bryson's daughter in Vietnam?) granddaughters (and a few grandsons) my bloodline is going to go on a long time.
I remember my childhood being very happy. Our idea of a good time was to put a watermelon in the river with cokes and go swimming and roasting marshmallows. We didn't know anything about drugs or crime or shootings and killings like the present.
The boys from our home town all joined the navy. We only had radios then. No T.V. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt would have Fireside Chats every Sunday. The soldiers then stayed over seas 4 or 5 years. We had rationing of sugar, gasoline, and tires, etc. We couldn't get nylons either as they used that in parachutes. I have seen everything from riding in wagons to men on the moon.
Hope this helps you, Chuck, to complete some of our family tree. Please send me a copy and drop me an Xmas card. I was 67 the 24th of Oct. '95.
I love you very much,
Aunt Violet
Father Coy
Mother Myrtle
Son Bryson
Son Steven
Son Douglas
Daughter Christine
Daughter Denise