| The History of Coagh booklet lists Private William Freeburn as having served with the United States Expeditionary Force in the war.
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| William Freeburn was born about 1881.
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| The only known family that can be guessed is: William Freeburn (born 4th April 1878)
Martha Freeburn (born 20th May 1883). *Both these dates are best fit.
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| The 1901 census lists a William Freeburn as age 20, living at house 11 in Tamlaght, Springhill, County Londonderry. He was a farm servant for Margaret Pitt. His sister, Martha Freeburn, was also living and working there.
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| The 1911 census lists the two siblings still living and working at Tamlaght for Margaret Pitt. William would have been about 30 years old.
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| It seems William Freeburn emigrated to America, where he enlisted. There is a listing for a William Freeburn, age 32, a farm labourer, emigrated from Londonderry to New York on the Columbia, which departed on 12th October 1912.
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| William Freeburn survived the war. He would have been about 37 in 1918.
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