Freeman/Leonard - Forest Hill Cemetery - Section 9 - Lot 6

John C. Freeman  Feb 14, 1842 - Apr 10, 1911

UW professor

Emma Belden Freeman  1843 - Dec 14, 1923

Suicide - Drowning

   

Henry Belden Freeman  1879 - Sep 25, 1898

Suicide - Laid face down on his bed on a sponge saturated with chloroform

   

Tragedy followed the family of John Freeman. His wife and two children died at their own hand.



               

Charlotte Brockway Freeman  1875 - May 4, 1911

Wife of poet/writer William Ellery Leonard

Suicide - Poison, she had tried to drown herself several times previously

Despite her history the Freeman family blamed Leonard for her death

   

Edmund Freeman  1886 - 1886