FREEMAN.--Rev. Thomas S. Freeman was born in Madison County, Tenn., January 29, 1823, and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Bennett, Fruitland, Tenn., March 25, 1897. Brother Freeman was married twice, first to Mrs. Susan M. Thomas, a true woman of God. From this union there were four children, two sons and two daughters, all good citizens, honored in the communities where they live. After the death of his wife he came to Arkansas, and in 1884 was married to Mrs. Phoebe Vineyard, a good woman, the widow of the Rev. W. J. Vineyard of precious memory. She also preceded him to the better world. Mr. Freeman joined the Hopewell Presbytery after his first marriage and in due time was licensed and ordained to the whole work of the gospel ministry. He united with the Helena Presbytery by letter 1884, and from that time until he was stricken down by disease four years before his death he was actively engaged in the work to which the Master had called him and the churches prospered under his faithful ministry. He was above the average as a preacher and under his earnest faithful ministry many souls were saved and the church greatly blessed. Having to give up preaching on account of his failing health worried him very much. His great desire to work for the Master seemed to be a burning consuming fire in his soul. While his name may not be written in golden letters in some conspicuous niche in the temple of fame yet it will live forever in the memory of the hundreds, yea, thousands of sinners saved by grace, whom he pointed to the blessed Christ, he loved so well to preach. He served the Poplar Grove, Midway, Oak Forest, Cypress Ridge and Palestine congregations where he was greatly loved and justly appreciated. His life was a success, his death a triumph.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, August 19, 1897, page 223]