"Miss Rosa Freeney was the first daughter born to Elijah and Maria Fooks Freeney. Born in 1863 she lived on the Edge View Farm until the death of her father, then moved into the town of Delmar.
In the 1910, 1920, and 1930 census she is shown as living on South Street (now Maryland Avenue) and her sister, Matilda, is living with her. Six months after she was recorded in the 1930 she would die from cancer and be buried at the Freeney/Hearne Cemetery.
She and her sister, Matilda Freeney, owned a number of pieces of land in Delmar. In 1917 she had a telephone (#43-2 Freeney, Miss Rosa L) one of only about 45 private residences that had a phone at that time.
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Obit - The State Register, Laurel, Delaware, 3 Oct 1930
Miss Rosa Lee Freeney passed away at her home on Friday evening after several months of suffering from cancer. She was 60 years old and a lifetime resident of Delmar.
Miss Freeney was a past matron of Adah Chapter 5 Order of Easter Star, also a present grand trustee of the Grand Chapter of Delaware.
The deceased is survived by two sisters, Miss Matilda Freeney of Delmar with whom she lived, and Mrs. Harry Hickey of Wilmington; two brothers, E. E. Freeney of this town and William Freeney of Salisbury.
Funeral services were held at the home of her brother E. E. Freeney at 11 o'clock Monday with Dr. Dashiell , pastor of M. E. Church officiating. Interment was made in the family burial ground near town. Floral tributes were numerous and beautiful."
Info from booklet by Delmar Historical Society published after cemetery cleanup in 2012.
In the 1910, 1920, and 1930 census she is shown as living on South Street (now Maryland Avenue) and her sister, Matilda, is living with her. Six months after she was recorded in the 1930 she would die from cancer and be buried at the Freeney/Hearne Cemetery.
She and her sister, Matilda Freeney, owned a number of pieces of land in Delmar. In 1917 she had a telephone (#43-2 Freeney, Miss Rosa L) one of only about 45 private residences that had a phone at that time.
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Obit - The State Register, Laurel, Delaware, 3 Oct 1930
Miss Rosa Lee Freeney passed away at her home on Friday evening after several months of suffering from cancer. She was 60 years old and a lifetime resident of Delmar.
Miss Freeney was a past matron of Adah Chapter 5 Order of Easter Star, also a present grand trustee of the Grand Chapter of Delaware.
The deceased is survived by two sisters, Miss Matilda Freeney of Delmar with whom she lived, and Mrs. Harry Hickey of Wilmington; two brothers, E. E. Freeney of this town and William Freeney of Salisbury.
Funeral services were held at the home of her brother E. E. Freeney at 11 o'clock Monday with Dr. Dashiell , pastor of M. E. Church officiating. Interment was made in the family burial ground near town. Floral tributes were numerous and beautiful."
Info from booklet by Delmar Historical Society published after cemetery cleanup in 2012.
"Miss Rosa Freeney was the first daughter born to Elijah and Maria Fooks Freeney. Born in 1863 she lived on the Edge View Farm until the death of her father, then moved into the town of Delmar.
In the 1910, 1920, and 1930 census she is shown as living on South Street (now Maryland Avenue) and her sister, Matilda, is living with her. Six months after she was recorded in the 1930 she would die from cancer and be buried at the Freeney/Hearne Cemetery.
She and her sister, Matilda Freeney, owned a number of pieces of land in Delmar. In 1917 she had a telephone (#43-2 Freeney, Miss Rosa L) one of only about 45 private residences that had a phone at that time.
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Obit - The State Register, Laurel, Delaware, 3 Oct 1930
Miss Rosa Lee Freeney passed away at her home on Friday evening after several months of suffering from cancer. She was 60 years old and a lifetime resident of Delmar.
Miss Freeney was a past matron of Adah Chapter 5 Order of Easter Star, also a present grand trustee of the Grand Chapter of Delaware.
The deceased is survived by two sisters, Miss Matilda Freeney of Delmar with whom she lived, and Mrs. Harry Hickey of Wilmington; two brothers, E. E. Freeney of this town and William Freeney of Salisbury.
Funeral services were held at the home of her brother E. E. Freeney at 11 o'clock Monday with Dr. Dashiell , pastor of M. E. Church officiating. Interment was made in the family burial ground near town. Floral tributes were numerous and beautiful."
Info from booklet by Delmar Historical Society published after cemetery cleanup in 2012.
In the 1910, 1920, and 1930 census she is shown as living on South Street (now Maryland Avenue) and her sister, Matilda, is living with her. Six months after she was recorded in the 1930 she would die from cancer and be buried at the Freeney/Hearne Cemetery.
She and her sister, Matilda Freeney, owned a number of pieces of land in Delmar. In 1917 she had a telephone (#43-2 Freeney, Miss Rosa L) one of only about 45 private residences that had a phone at that time.
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Obit - The State Register, Laurel, Delaware, 3 Oct 1930
Miss Rosa Lee Freeney passed away at her home on Friday evening after several months of suffering from cancer. She was 60 years old and a lifetime resident of Delmar.
Miss Freeney was a past matron of Adah Chapter 5 Order of Easter Star, also a present grand trustee of the Grand Chapter of Delaware.
The deceased is survived by two sisters, Miss Matilda Freeney of Delmar with whom she lived, and Mrs. Harry Hickey of Wilmington; two brothers, E. E. Freeney of this town and William Freeney of Salisbury.
Funeral services were held at the home of her brother E. E. Freeney at 11 o'clock Monday with Dr. Dashiell , pastor of M. E. Church officiating. Interment was made in the family burial ground near town. Floral tributes were numerous and beautiful."
Info from booklet by Delmar Historical Society published after cemetery cleanup in 2012.
Inscription
Rosa L, Daughter of Elijah and Ellen Freeney
Gravesite Details
Granite stone of the marker type with slanted, polished finish top. Top is approx 13" x 25" with "rock" cut sides, stands 9" above the grass.
Family Members
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