| Home Surname List Name Index Sources | Fourth Generation50. Rebeca Slaton2,4 was born on 13 November 1870 in [Jefferson County], Tennessee. She appeared in the census in 1880 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. Rebecca 9 dau w m TN NC NC. She appeared in the census in 1900 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. Rebecca 30 wife f m6 w Nov 1869 house keeper TN NC TN 3 children, 2 living. Rebeca died on 21 February 1902 at the age of 31. Rebeca Slaton and Joseph Haskel (Haskel) Free were married on 15 March 1894 in Jefferson County, Tennessee.15 Joseph Haskel (Haskel) Free2,63,64,65, son of William Hendly (Hendly) Free and Sarah J (Mrs. William Hendly Free), was born in July 1870 in [Cocke County], Tennessee. He appeared in the census in 1880 in Cocke County, Tennessee. Haskiel 8 son m s w TN TN TN attends school. He appeared in the census in 1900 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. Dist. 12, Enumeration Distict 53, White Pine, Jefferson County, Tennessee, 15 Jun 1900, p.167b, dwelling number 283, family number 283, Free Joseph H. 30 head m m6 w Jul 1869 farmer TN TN TN, Rebecca 30 wife f m6 w Nov 1869 house keeper TN NC TN 3 children, 2 living, Eva J. 3 dau f s w Oct 1896 TN TN TN, Ollie C. 11/12 dau f w w Jun 1899 TN TN TN. Joseph appeared in the census in 1910 in Imperial County, California. Holtsville Township, Imperial County, California, 20 & 21 Jan 1910, Holtsville City, p.265b, Walnut Avenue, dwelling number 138, family number 139, Free Joseph H. 39 head m2-0 carpenter TN TN TN, Nettie J. 30 wife m2-0 MI MI MI 0 children, 0 living. He appeared in the census in 1920 in Multnomah County, Oregon. Portland City, Precinct 126, Multnomah County, Oregon, 5 Jan 1920; 4142 65 Street, p.4b, dwelling number 101, family number 101; Free Joseph 49 head m m w janitor, public school TN TN TN; Nettie 41 wife f m w MI MI MI. He appeared in the census in 1930 in Multnomah County, Oregon. Portland City, Multnomah County, Oregon, 2 Apr 1930, 4142 65th St. S.E., p.2b, dwelling number 44, family number 45, Free Joseph 59 head m m@24 w carpenter, building TN TN TN, Nettie 50 wife f m@18 w MI MI MI. Joseph died in 1933 at the age of 63 in Multnomah County, Oregon.65,66 Oregon Death Index Information: Name: Free, Joseph; County: Portland; Death Date: 25 0 1933; Certificate: 2856; Spouse: Nettie. When Haskel died, his daughter Ollie Paralee Free McCampbell was was notified by way of a penny post card mailed by a neighbor. It arrived ten days after Haskel's death. (William Maurice (Jack or Bill) McCampbell.) Hazel Cox's family history does not include the given name for Haskel Free, just his surname. However, Curtis Slaton sent me an old photograph of the Slaton family taken about 1897. The occasion of the photograph was a funeral. The photograph consists primarily of Francis Marion (Frank) Slaton and his children and grandchildren. In addition, Frank Slaton's father Thomas Fielden Slaton is in the picture. The legend on the photograph gives the names of all the people in the picture. Also, the legend says that there is a chair which is draped in black in memory of the infant son of Rebecca and Haskel Free who had just died. Hazel Cox's history lists an unnamed infant son of Rebecca Slaton and her husband Mr. Free. Subsequent research with cemetery records has shown that the "infant son" who died in 1897 was in fact an infant daughter named Mary F. Free. (RGB) Joseph Haskel Free moved out west after his first wife died in 1903, first to California and then later to Oregon. His children were left with their grandparents. In moving to California, he was following his brother-in-law John Thomas Slaton. (RGB) His daughter Ollie Paralee Free McCampbell had great affection for him, but most of the Slatons hated him. They figured he abandoned his wife and sickly children when he went west with Uncles John and Walker Slaton, leaving them to the care of their Grandpa Slaton and, largely, to Uncle Port. Uncle John became a prosperous farmer in Imperial Valley and Uncle Walk did okay in the oil fields in Oklahoma. Haskel became a carpentar in Portland, Oregon. Haskel came back home to Tennessee twice after he left. He was on the eastbound train that wrecked in New Market on Sept 22 1904. He was back again in 1922 just before his daughter Ollie married Walter B. McCampbell. His second wife Nettie Jane Free -- visited Tennessee in 1938. She and my Ollie wrote regularly all those years and Ollie always called her Grandma. (William Maurice (Bill or Jack) McCampbell). Rebeca Slaton and Joseph Haskel (Haskel) Free had the following children:
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