Froman, Anderson

Born: 1818-01-18 Indiana

Died: 1864-06-15 Hamilton County, Tennessee

Flourished: Macon County, Illinois

Anderson Froman was a farmer, army soldier, and army officer. In April 1836 Froman, a resident of Vermilion County, Illinois, purchased public land in the east central portion of Piatt County, Illinois, bordering Macon County. Froman was living in Vermilion County in 1840. In March 1840, he married Nancy Frazier, with whom he had children. Froman moved from Vermilion to Macon County, Illinois, sometime before the Mexican War. Volunteering for military service in that conflict, Forman served as a second lieutenant in Company C, Fourth Regiment of Illinois Volunteers. Nancy Froman died sometime before 1850, and in March 1850, Anderson married Mary M. Rea, with whom he also had children. In 1850, Froman was farming and owned real property valued at $3,200. By 1860, he owned real property valued at $7,000 and had a personal estate of $1,000. In August 1862, Froman joined the army as major of the 116th Illinois Infantry. He received promotion to lieutenant colonel in January 1864. He died from wounds received in action at Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales, Piatt County, 236:153, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Sixth Census of the United States (1840), Vermilion County, IL, 120; Isaac H. Elliott, Record of the Services of Illinois Soldiers in the Black Hawk War, 1831-32, and in the Mexican War, 1846-8 (Springfield, IL: H. W. Rokker, 1882), 289; Past and Present of the City of Decatur and Macon County Illinois (Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1903), 32, 55, 120; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Macon County, IL, 136; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Macon County, IL, 350; Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865 (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2012); Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Vermilion County, 3 March 1840, Macon County, 25 March 1850, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Gravestone, Peck Cemetery, Oakley, IL.