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Finley Source Documents in Texas

Books and Periodicals

Abstract of All Original Texas Land Titles Comprising Grants and Locations to August 31, 1941. Austin, TX: General Land Office, Bascom Giles, Commissioner, n.d.

Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas. Chicago: F.A. Battey, 1889. p. 419-420.

Fleming, E.B. Early Histories of Hopkins County. n.p.: n. pub., 1902. Merrett Branom, p. 91-93.

Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas. Book II, Austin: Daughters of the Republic of Texas, 1974.

Historic Texas Maps, Datebook, 1985. Richardson, TX: Herring Press, Distributed by Publishers' Marketing Group, 1343 Columbia, Suite 405, Richardson, TX 75081.

Historical Marker, Mt. Zion Church, Branom Community, Texas, 1967.

Hudson, Weldon F. First Settlers of Tarrant County, Texas. 1841-1859, vol. 1.

Hunt County, Texas Marriages, 1846-1911. Greenville, TX: Hunt County Genealogical Society, 1987.

Ingmire, Frances Terry, compiler & editor. Archives and Pioneers of Hunt County, Texas. vol. 1, n.p.: compiler,1975, p. 93, 94, 106, 124.

Ingmire, Frances Terry & Thompson, Robert Lee. Johnny Rebs of Hunt County, Texas. n.p.: compilers, 1977.

Ingmire, Frances Terry, compiler. Marriage Records of Hopkins County, Texas, 1846-1880. n.p.: compiler, 1979.

Jackson, Ronald Vern, editor. Texas Census Records, 1841-1849. vol. 1, Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc.

Morris, Mrs. Harry Joseph, compiler and editor. 2nd ed. Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas; The Lineages of the Members of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Austin?:Daughters of the Republic of Texas, 1963.

Mullins, Marion Day. Republic of Texas: Poll Lists for 1846. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1974. p. 54.

Story, Loraine Dodson, transcriber. Early Records of Hunt County, Texas: (1850 Census, 1850 Mortality Schedule); (1850 Slave Schedule, 93 Marriages 1847-1851).

Farmersville, TX: Search-N-Print.

Story, Loraine Dodson, transcriber. 1860 Census of Hunt County, Texas (Includes the 1860 Mortality and Slave Schedules). Farmersville, TX: Search-N-Print, 1979.

Thorndale, William & Dollarhide, William. Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987, p. 34, 326.

Wade, Mrs. Jeff, transcriber and publisher. 1860 Federal Census, Dunklin County, Missouri.

White, Gifford. First Settlers of Lamar County, Texas. St. Louis: Ingmire Publications, 1982.

White, Gifford. The First Settlers of Jasper County, Texas. St. Louis: Ingmire Publications, 1984.

White, Gifford. Mercer Colonists. n.p.: n. pub., 1984.

Primary Source Records

12 March 1848, George W. Findly marries Jane Odell, Hunt County DB A:404.

6 May 1850, George W. and Milton Finley issued certificates for 640 acres each in Mercer Colony, Hunt County, White, Mercer Colony, pp. 19, 20.

7 May 1850, John, Edmond, Jesse, issued certificates for 640 acres each; Marion, Joseph J., Edmond Finley, Jr. issued certificates for 320 acres each in Mercer Colony, Hunt County, White, Mercer Colony, p. 21.

20 June 1850, Jesse Finley survey of 320 acres (of 640) on Lake Fork Creek of Sabine River, Hunt County Surveyors Record, vol. A:468.

5 August 1853, Jesse Finley, residing in Hunt County, TX, application for Bounty Land, National Archives Document.

5 February 1857, J.J. Finley to Nancy Southerland, Hopkins County, Book 3:31.

24 December 1858, David Findley of Hopkins County to Cumberland Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal Churches, property for church and school, Hopkins County, Record Book G:444-445.

17 April 1862, M. Findley marries Arminda Kerbo, Hopkins County Marriage Records, Book 2:153.

12 June 1892, Lucy Finley marries E.S. Sloan, Hopkins County Marriage Records, vol. 8:139.

22 June 1901, [James] Otis Finley married Kate Johnson, Hopkins County Marriage Records, Book 10:525.

14 March 1904, Eliza E. Branum tombstone, Cumby Cemetery, Hopkins County, TX.

26 November 1913, E. Finley Confederate Pension Application, #25189, TX State Archives, Austin, TX.

4 November 1917, M.A. Finley Confederate Pension Application, #34761 (widow), TX State Archives, Austin, TX.

31 August 1940, Julia N. (Finley) Smith, funeral home record, Antlers, OK.

Bible Records

Branum, Elizabeth Ellen Finley, Bible record, in possession of Jeanne Branom 1310 Aldridge St., Commerce, TX 75428.

Finley, Edmond and Mary Ann (Kerbo), Bible record, in possession of Peggy Harding, 715 Emmons Street, Kilgore, TX 75662.

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