Freeman - Wallace C.
Wallace C. FREEMAN
Source: Zach, Karen Bazzani. Montgomery Medicine Men ... Crawfordsville: Montgomery County Historical Society, 2002. (also additions since the book kbz has researched)
Wallace C. Freeman died at his home in "Whitlock," (Wingate area) Montgomery County on June 13, 1886, having been born at Parke4rsburg on November 4, 1849, the son of John and Arthusa Cloyd Freeman. The "C" as his middle initial may stand for Cloyd. He was the oldest of seven children born to his parents from 1849 to 1865 when it is assumed she passed away while having her youngest. Certainly, it was an unusual name, but one he must have held dear as on March 14, 1877 in Vermillion County, Indiana he made Arthusa Green his wife.
When Wallace was just 17, he began studying medicine with two Parkersburg area doctors with William Henry Hyten and John Wesley Straughn. He joined the regular army not long after the War Between the States in Co. E 3rd U.S. Infantry where he was listed as a druggist. His eyes were blue, hair light, complexion fair and he stood 5'8" tall, which was just above average for the time. After getting out of the army and marrying, he reinlisted under Lt. Manning on July 23, 1877. Upon completing that stint, he practiced medicine in the Wingate area. On June 25, 1883 he began to receive an invalid's pension. One month and ten days after his death, Arthusa began receiving a widow's pension. He is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, at Wingate but she is not found.