One further tribute to miners and their families.
The Freeman family, circa 1920, exemplifies an early Carbon County household that became immersed in mining. Patriarch, William Freeman Sr. worked alongside his father in the mines of England. William Sr. then married, immigrated and settled in Red Lodge by 1895. One son, William R. (W.R.). married Jeannie McIntosh, daughter of Scottish immigrants Henry and Katie McIntosh. The McIntosh’s operated a grocery store in Red Lodge as well as a boarding house near the West Side Mine.
W.R. and Jeannie settled in Washoe where W.R. eventually became superintendent of the Smith Mine until its closing in 1943. Two of W.R.s siblings were also employed at the mine, James M, as general manager and Tom, as topside superintendent.
Freeman Family, circa 1920
Top: l-r, Nellie, Mary Jane (Jennie), James M, Ethel, Florence, Tom
Bottom: l-r, William (W. R.), William Sr., Mary Ann, Annie and Lillian