John M. Freyman
John M. Freyman was born in Bavaria in 1771, and came with his father to the United States in 1828, and to this township in 1833. He here entered land in section 33. Mr. F. died in 1863 and Mrs. F. in 1869. George F., the youngest of the family, was born in Pennsylvania in 1828, married Elizabeth Hiebner in 1855, and purchased the farm on which he now lives in 1867. This land, on the Auglaize River in section 21, was once the home of a noted Indian chief who was buried on the place. There is still an apple orchard which was planted by the Indians. Mr. F. remembers eating apples from this orchard in 1834. He also remembers being lost in the timber, and after wandering nearly a whole day he found an Indian cabin, and the Indian conducted him to near his own home.
From History of Auglaize County, Ohio, with the Indian History of Wapakoneta, and the First Settlement of the County, Robert Sutton, Publishers, Wapakoneta, 1880