Josiah V. Thompson Uniontown, Pa Family Record Book No 16

Richard Finley was born Feby 14, 1822

Mary Finley born Aug 1832

Bertha Bell Finley born Sept 14, 1872 in Gallina Co, O

Children of Richard Finley

1. Cecilia Jane Finley born Apr 21, 1849

2. Thomas Wilson Finley born Aug 23, 1851

3. Lucinda Anne Finley born May 28, 1853

4. Catharine Jane Finley born Dec 27, 1857

5. Rebecca Margaret Finley born Mch 28, 1860

6. Joseph Alender Finley born Sept 27, 1862

7. James Butler Finley born Apr 14, 1864

8. John Park Finley born Oct 23, 1866

9. Jeannette Finley born Nov 23, 1868

Cecilia Jane Finley died Feby 10, 1853

Margaret Jane Finley died Sept 16, 1855

Lucinda Anne Finley died Nov 13, 1860

John Park Finley died Sept 29, 1867

Jeannette Finley died May 19, 1875

Richard Finley died May 10, 1888

Mary Finley died Oct 17, 1910

Joseph Alender Finley died Nov 16, 1913

Rebecca Margaret Finley Mills died Aug 22, 1919

T.W. Finley died May 4, 1924
Richard Finley died in Columbiana Co, O where she thinks his children were born. After his death, his widow & children moved to Loudenville, O. The widow, Mary Finley was living there & is buried there, but died in a hospital in Mansfield, O.
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where she was taken for treatment of her eyes. Don't know where she was born, nor her parentage, nor of any brothers or sisters of Richard.
2. Thomas Wilson died in this house unmarried & is buried at Loudenville.

4. Catharine Jane, don't know when she died or whether she was married.

5. Rebecca Margaret married to John Mills a railroad conductor who was killed on the RR several years before my informant was married. Mrs Mills died here in town & is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery here where her husband also is buried & thinks they have tombstones. She had but one child born probably at Lowdenville, O. [variation in spelling noted]

1. Mary Ollie Mills married to Harry Haynes. Both living in Cincin, O where he works for a Varnish Co & have one child

1. John Haynes

6. Joseph A. died single at Ludenville, O & is buried there.

1. Richard Shelton born Oct 27, 1912

Leaving 11:55 AM

I called at 12:15 PM at 509 Spahr Bldg No 50 E. Broad to see W.L. Mattoon R.E. man for the Hocking Valley RR Co, A man there evidently knew me as he called me Mr Thompson. He said Mr Mattoon was out of the city & would not return until tonight.

Have just wired C.A. Miller Wilkinsburg & G.S. Mingus Pgh & wired Lawtons NY man Geo D. Jones at Chicago, Ill from whom I just received a letter & have written Pallini. JVT 1:20 PM 19^th
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At Court House, Franklin Co, O Probate Judges office Columbus, O Mch 19, 1926 2:15 PM

I have gone over the will index & do not find the Will of Andrew Jack or of any Jack from 1823, the beginning to date. Nor is there any will of an Albert or Edgar Barnett from 1900 to date. there is a will of Henry Kilgore in 1914, only one of the name, but my time being limited this afternoon, I did not examine it.

Leaving 2:27 PM
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At residence of Charles Wesley Finley 253 Whitethorne Ave, Columbus, O Mch 19, 1926 3:20 PM

Mr Finley says his great grandfather Finley came to Delaware Co, O from Virginia. Mr F. remembers him & says he was small in stature & died in Delaware Co, O abt 50 yrs ago & his wife died there too & he thinks were buried at Eden Village probably 5 or 6 miles N.E. of Delaware or they may have been buried at Fredericktown, O. Thinks they would have markers, one was 92 & the other 94. He took up land there, but may have conveyed it to his son Samuel with whom he lived when he died. He had a son William who went to Indiana & he thinks there was perhaps another son that went there too. He says Mattoon runs in his head as the place which I tell him in in Ills. He had a daughter who married & lived & thinks died at Fredericktown, Knox Co, O & was hale & active up until her death in her nineties. Ask his father for her name. The only other son of his great grandfather was his

1. Nancy married Cyrus Chambers. Both died in Delaware & had a big family.

2. Margaret married Martin Ellsberry both dead in Delaware Co, O. No issue.

3. John Calvin died young, unmarried.

4. Isaiah Graham born in Delaware Co, O Apr 30, 1847 & his mother died them from childbirth see below. He married a 2^d wife & had one child:

5. Martha married Charles W. Everett. She died 3 or 4 yrs ago in Los Angeles, Calif & is buried. He is living out there & is in the R.E. business. Don't know his number. Thinks she had six children.

1. Charles Wesley Finley born Oct 17, 1870

2. Carrie Isabelle Finley born Sept 12, 1873

3. Jennie Gertrude Finley born Mch 26, 1876

I. Mary Caroline born July 20, 1897.

II. Charlene Gessner born Jany 3, 1899

III. James Graham born Dec 12, 1905

I. Mary Caroline was married in the spring of May 29, 1916 to Edward Harrison Dearth born Aug 8, 1895 son of Wm Dearth & wife Sadie Rose. They are separated & she lives here with her parents. Have one child born in Columbus, O.

a. Mary Joan Dearth B Feby 9, 1917 living here with her grandparents.

Leaving 4:33 PM

Mrs Davis first husband was Arndt Thompson, son of Eleazer Thompson. He was born June 17, 1875 at Senecaville, O & was married Dec 26, 1901 in Pittsburgh, Pa by Rev Schaeffer, Lutheran, to Olive Day born Dec 8, 1879 in Lawrence Co near Ironton, O daughter of Joseph Alonzo Day & his wife Stella Ann Wilson. They had two children both born in Pittsburgh, Pa viz:

1. Mildred Lucile Thompson born Jany 29, 1902

2. Edith Irene Thompson born Oct 11, 1905

1. Virginia Ann Krumm B Dec 23, 1923.

Mr Krumm is manager of Hartmann Dairy Stores here.
2. Edith Jane was married Sept 10, 1924 at Columbus, O by Rev A.H. Knipping Evangelical to George
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John Emrich born Sept 10, 1902 at Columbus, O son of George Christopher Emrich & his wife Lillie Hamewald. Both living at No 816 Seymour Ave where he is advertising manager of the Emirch Stove Co. No issue.
Arndt Thompson died Oct 29, 1911 at Pittsburgh, Pa & is buried at Senecaville, O.

Mrs Thompson married 2^d Nov 10, 1914 here in Columbus, O by Rev A.H. Knipping Evangelist to John Davis born Feby 4, 1864 in Jackson

Co, O son of Enoch Davis & wife Margaret Davis also. No issue to his marriage.
Nancy Agnes Winner died in McKeesport, Pa in Feby 1911 & had but one child See book 7 p 247

1. Izora Winner born Jany 28, 1903 in Lore city, O. She married _____ Donaldson & has one child.

Mrs D. says that Mrs Lavina Cash, living at Girard, O knows more of the family records than any others, but says that Josephine Richey living with her father at N.E. corner of Oakland & High here can give dates. See Book 7 p 247 JVT

Leaving 5:22 PM
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At residence of Mrs Bessie Stamper 750 Doyle St, Columbus, O Mch 19, 1926 6:16 PM

Mrs Stamper's first husband was John A. Finley born here in Columbus O June 12, 1868 & died May 4, 1900 here in Columbus, O of pneumonia & is buried in Calvary Cemetery here as is his father also, his father John Finley who was born in Co Kildare, Ireland & came here when a boy with his mother. His widow, Mary Finley aged 83 lives here in the city on Reynolds Ave with her daughter Mrs Fred Saverell. John Augustus Finley married on May 16, 1890 to Bessie Tinkter born Apr 1, 1872 in Co Kildare Ireland, daughter of Richard Tinkter & wife Mary Haggerty. Had seven children born in Columbus, O.

1. Joseph Rosecrans Finley B May 1, 1892

2. John Augustus Finley Jr B Aug 14, 1893

3. Maria Margaret Finley B May 16, 1895

4. Sadie Finley B Oct 12, 1896

5.Thomas Aloysius Finley B Apr 4, 1898

6. Raymond Walter Finley B Dec 14, 1898

7. William Matthews Finley B Jany 1, 1900

These dates are evidently wrong as to Sadie & Thomas.

Mr Finley's mother was born in Kilkenny & came over as
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a child with her mother.
Joseph R. Finley died Oct 1892

Sadie Finley died May 1899

William M. is at home single & the other four are married

John A. has 4 children viz:

Dorothy May

John Robert

Helen Virginia

Edna Louise

[All children above noted] live here

Maria married George Chambers & lives here & have one son, William

Thomas A, married Mrs May Newman. No issue. Lives here.

Raymond W. is married & lives here. No issue.

Mrs Finley married 2^d June 13, 1906 to Henry Stamper & has two sons to him:

Carl Wesley Stamper B Mch 5, 1908

Earl Michael Stamper B Apr 23, 1912

Leaving 6:46 PM

Doyle St is but one short square long between Davis St & another & about 1 or 2 sts south of West Broad at abt No 790
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At residence of James Ritchie, No 2300 High St (N.E. corner of Oakland) Columbus, O Mch 19, 1926 8 PM

Mr Ritchie has the Eleazer Thompson bible a big one printed by U.S.B. Publishing Co, Toledo, O but is without date. The record is as follows:

1. Izora May Thompson born Aug 19, 1867

2. Nancy Agnes Thompson born Mch 8, 1873

3. Harold Arndt Thompson born Jany 17, 1875

4. Lavina Devold Thompson born July 17, 1877

Deaths

Izora M. Richey [sic] Sept 21, 1922 at Mt Vernon, O & is buried at Senecaville, O.

1. Vance Thompson Richey [sic] B Jany 17, 1886

2. Josephine Agnes Richey B Nov 27, 1889

[note. JVT has gone back & corrected most of the Richey spellings with Ritchie, I feel the latter must be correct.]

1. Vance T. was married 1^st Oct 15, 1909 in Mt Vernon, O to Hazel Blocher & divorced Feby 1920 in Mt Vernon, O daughter of Fred Blocher & wife. Had one child born in Mt Vernon. Married 2^d June 12, 1922 in Dunkirk NY to Miss Elizabeth Husch & have one child born at Dunkirk NY. Both living at 631 Swan St Dunkirk NY where he is Supt of a glass plant manufacturing bottles.

I. James Neil Ritchie B Apr 5, 1914

II. John Vance Ritchie B Jany 20, 1926

2. Josephine is at home, single.

I reached home viz of Brownsville, Pa last Saturday evening 20^th about 7 PM & have been busy since reading up to date on the newspapers & reading & answering the business part of 280 letters that had then accumulated since I left on Feby 10, 1926 & am now taking up the reading & answering of about a hundred letters relating to family genealogy which I will need to note & record as I answer them.

Upon leaving Mr Ritchie's in Columbus, O on 19^th inst, I just missed a street car in & having to wait ten minutes for the next one, caused me to miss the 9 PM PRR train for Pgh as it was just 9 o'c when I got to the Deshler, so I went to Mills Cafeteria & got my dinner & between 10 & 11 took the sleeper which left after 2 AM & got me in Pgh 8:10 AM 2^th.

I saw in Columbus, O the greater number of the parties I had slips to see, but some who I did not have time to call on can be seen on a later date.

One party to see however, who was out when I called on 19^th is Malcolm A. Karshner 55 E. State ST in the Grand Theatre Bldg whose mother was a sister of Arthur
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Jack's wife. See if he can't give his mother's parentage & perhaps the birth & marriage of her sister, Mrs Arthur Jack & names of his father & where he lived.

I was at 121 S. Hague Ave at 5:40 PM 19^th hunting Louis Callis & found his name at the door at Louis Callif & his wife Dessie whom I saw confirmed that & said their name was Callif. I didn't get time to hunt up Maud Peairs, teacher of Stewart Ave Schools, living at 123 Whittier. There are many Carothers, Carothers, [sic] Carruthers & Caruthers also Markels, Merkles, one Rothermel & some additional Finleys, Jacks & Kilgores that I did not see as shown in directory & telephone books.

I have two letters from Dr Geo W. Finley, Brazil, Ind dated Feby 15, & Mch 23^d asking for the return of his daughter's "Finley Family History" 11 pages which he loaned me when at his home Dec 30^th last, so I am making from it such notations as I did not get that day from Mrs Belk in Book 15 pages 444 & 445, so I can return it Monday.

On page 444, I have added 5 additional children of her great Uncle William Finley & the statement that her great Aunt Frances had one child that died in infancy. Dr Finley's grandfather,

1. Aaron Ross born Aug 25, 1800 who married Mary Weatherly & had 4 sons & 4 daughters, the daughters all married.

2. Rebecca Ross born June 13, 1802 who married Noah Weatherly & had 7 sons & 3 daughters (the daughters all married)

The 2^d, 3^d & 4^th pages are taken up with the listing of her offspring through her first marriage, which I do not want.

Other data from this History relating to the History of certain of the children of aforesaid Geo Finley 1757 1833, which I did not heretofore have I have tabled on pages 446 & 447 in book 15 & on pages 224 & 225 in this book NO 16 & I am returning the history on Monday Mch 29, 1926 by Registered mail to Dr Geo W. Finley Brazil, Ind from whom I got. it.

On my trip Feby 10 to Mch 20, 1926 inclusive, I traveled 5833 miles in twelve different states in 39 days practically 150 miles per day & had 136 conferences with 252 people about nine of our families. See C.A. Book W Pages 139 & 130 to 133 inclusive. JVT [C.A. is Cash Account Book]

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[children]

1. Walter Finley, B June 5, 1873 married 1901 Helen Lambert or Ella Lambert. He lives at 517 N. Harrison St. Brazil. Ind.

2. Araminta Catherine Finley, B Feby 6, 1874 ob Feby 12, 1877 in childhood.

3. James Ross Finley, B Sept 6, 1875, married Sept 3, 1899 to Ann Rissler daughter of John Rissler & wife Elizabeth Boyd. Have 3 children born oldest in Washington, Putnam Co & other two at Harmony, Clay Co, Ind.

Agnes Finley, B Oct 10, 1900

Wayne Finley, B Oct 8, 1904

Kathleen Finley, B Oct 16, 1913

4. Grace Lucinda Finley, B July 6, 1877 married 1897 Thomas P. Boyd son of Rev Elias Boyd & wife Olice [sic] Isabella Riddell. Have 2 children. Grace L. died Apr 26, 1910

5. Harvey Franklin Finley, by 2^d wife B Aug 24, 1895 married Oct 4, 1924 to Helen Irene Patrick b Aug 28, 1904 daughter of James Patrick & wife Anna.

Oak Hill, Mch 28, 1926 12:33 PM

I am today going over the letters & his genealogical tables on the back of some of them loaned to me at St Louis, Mo Feby 14, 1926 by Oliver R. McCoy of 948 Laurel St, St Louis, Mo see book 15 page 552 & making note of such data as I deem necessary that is not embraced in the record got in first week of October last at New Boston, O from John Peebles, see book 14 pages 376 et seq.

A letter dated Oct 16, 1920 to Oliver R., above, from his Uncle, John McCoy, editor of the "Kaukauna Times" KauKauna, Wisconsin, states that his grandfather, John McCoy, who married Jane McCracken (daughter of Elizabeth Finley Peebles McCracken 1742 1832) & for whom he was named, came to Chillicothe, O in 1795 96 & with his brothers, Robert, James & Alexander, engaged in mercantile life in Chillicothe & Columbus, O, the latter place being then known as Franklinton. Their home had been in Penna, their father Alexander McCoy being a farmer at Strasburg near Mercersburg, Pa who in 1770 had married Jane Watt or Watts at Mercersburg, Pa. Alexander's father, John McCoy came to America with

He states that General Samuel Finley came to Chillicothe, O with his nephew, John McCoy (nephew by marriage later in 1808 to Jane McCracken) & that he was grandfather of Martha Finley who wrote the Elsie books. The McCracken McCoy table on back of this letter shows that Lieut William McCracken of the Revolutionary War, second husband of Elizabeth Finley Peebles 1742 1832 was the son of John McCracken & his wife Janet McMillan & Elizabeth, the daughter of John Finley & Martha Berkeley. He states that his mother, Jane Oliver Carson, (named for her grandmother Jean Oliver wife of David Carson) was the daughter of William Carson & his wife Elizabeth Claypoole daughter of the famous Abram George Claypoole, Revolutionary patriot. Also that Alice Vanderbilt who was a Chillicothe Gwynne (evidently the mother of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt) & whose grandmother was a sister

I find the genealogical tables on the backs of the two quarter [best guess] pages of his letter & from which I have been making notes were made by the writer of the letters, John McCoy, born Oct 20, 1861 see book 15 p 379 & in which he names: See 16 p 501

Eliza McCoy's first child see line 31 as Jessie McCoy (not Jesse) who on June 23, 1906 married "Jack" Granville Appleton ¹h born Sept 28, children:

William Chalmers Chapman, single born Apr 3, 1907 at Portland, Maine

Armatte [Armathe?] Delans Chapman, single born Sept 19, 1908 at Gilead, Maine

Franklyn Sproat Chapman, single born Dec 31, 1912 at Gilead, Maine.

He gives his own second sister as Janet born 1858 (not Jessie as shown on line 20). Also line 22 gives:

Mary Alice (instead of Janet Alice)

He gives his won wife as Mary Winifred Hays & one child Robert Carson McCoy born 1890 married Mary Laura Townsley & has one child, Mary Winifred.

He gives his brother, Oliver F. as having a daughter, Mabel Willson who has a son, John.

He gives his brother, Robert W. as having a daughter Christine Chapman who has a son Samuel Finley. There are two bunches of letters written to his Uncle John which Oliver R. loaned me & from which
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I am copying, giving them numbers numerically as I read them:
No 1. From Adelaide M. Nevin (no date or place given)

She says she is granddaughter of John McCoy & Janet McCracken & great granddaughter of Wm McCracken & Elizabeth Finley Peebles. She says Wm McCracken was born in Scotland in 1753 & died in Penna June 16, 1803 & is buried at Newville, Pa where his tombstone gives him the title of Captain but all records she finds which were given to her by Dr W.H. Egle, State Librarian, which are as follows, name his as 2 Lieut. viz:

He was 2^dd Lieut in 13^th Penna 1777 of Continental 1777 of Continental line & was in the battle of Flatbush, Long Island, NY Aug 27 & 28, 1776. See Hartman's Register Lieut Continental line 13^th Pa. Refer to Penna Archives Vol 10 page 266. Also 2^d Lieut Colonel Walter Stewart's Regiment Vol 10 p 770 Penna Archives. Also entered Capt Matthew Scott's Co. State Reg of Foot as 2^d Lieut & so acted from Mch 1, to May 1, 1777 when he was transferred to the Penna line. His commission is dated Apr 8, 1777. The records of that regiment are meagre & it is thought he was promoted to Captain while in that service.

No 2. From Mary E. Peebles, Portsmouth, O dated Mch 2, 1909 address him as cousin John & refers to an inquiry from him about their connection with John Knox & says

Stop at Elkton & see if any of the Finleys are there & examine the court records, wills & deeds & go to the adjoining County of Kent, Md from where Dr Geo W. Finley of Brazil, Ind said his grandfather, Geo Finley 1757 1833 went to Guildford, N.C.

James, baptized Nov 1, 1772

John, baptized July, 23 1775

William, baptized May 3, 1777

He says they seem to have a daughter Mary who died July 17, 1773.

Alex McCoy Senior died Jany 30, 1823 & a Jennie McCoy, Aug 1792 & also a Jane McCoy Jany 8, 1827.

Signed Mary McCoy Martin.

I have letter, large envelope from Annie J. Fort Stronghurst, Ill dated Dec 19, 1925 & post card dated Feby 8, 1926. See Book 5 Page 328. She gives the record of her grandmother Sarah Jane Carothers family which I am tabling commencing on next page. She states that her great great grandfather was in Colonel Thomas Gibson's Co if that is correct, his name was John or John Roger & not just Roger as Capt John Carothers was the only one of all the 28 Carothers from Pa who served in Gibson's Co.