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THE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIST
Volume 35, Number 1 January–March, 1991 Whole Number 137
CONTENTS
Another Adventurer, John Parmore (1607–1676)
By John Barr Bell .................................................................. 3
John and Mary Finley of Montgomery (Wythe) County, Virginia (continued)
By Carmen J. Finley ............................................................. 18
Local Notices from The Virginia Gazette, Richmond, 1786 ............ 34
The Ancestry of Mary (Poffenberger) (Cobely) Power (1752–27 Oct. 1840)
By John Bradley Arthaud ......................................................... 39
Progenitors and Kinfolk of Abraham Childers III (continued)
By Alvera Marjorie Dennstedt .................................................. 43
Lee County, Virginia, 1800 Tax List ............................................. 55
Who Was Major William Gooch of “Temple Farm,” York County, Virginia
By Brice M. Clagett ................................................................. 62
Book Reviews ........................................................................... 65
Queries ..................................................................................... 72
Additions and Corrections ............................................................ 79
Editor’s Page ............................................................................ 80
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JOHN AND MARY FINLEY
OF MONTGOMERY (WYTHE) COUNTY, VIRGINIA
By Carmen J. Finley, C.G., Ph.D.
Santa Rosa, California
(Continued from V. 34, p. 255)
GENERATION THREE
6. Jane Ann3 Finley (David2, John1) was the eldest daughter of David and Elizabeth (Mounts) Finley, born 9 Nov. 1785 in Lincoln Co., Va. (now Garrard Co., Ky.).75 She is also the only one of the children to have lived out her life in Kentucky; she died 12 May 1871 and is buried in the Burnt Tavern graveyard at Bryantsville.76 Jane Ann married on 15 May 180777 Edmond Smith, born about 1779, the son of James and Magdalene (Woods) Smith.78 Edmond predeceased Jane Ann by more than twenty years and died prior to 15 Dec. 1848.79
Edmond’s father, the Rev. James Smith, was a Separatist Baptist minister who came to Kentucky from Virginia in 1779 close to the same time the Finleys and Downings arrived. James, together with his brother Henry, and sons John and William, built a station (or fort) called Smith’s Station. It later became known as Smithtown, now Bryantsville. Edmond was not 6 months old when the family moved to the Dick’s River area.80 The Smith home was inherited by Edmond, who replaced the original log structure with a brick
75 Gravestone, Burnt Tavern Cemetery, Bryantsville, Garrard Co., Ky., in Kentucky DAR, Kentucky Cemetery Records, v. 1 (n.p., 1960), p. 171.
76 Ibid.
77 Garrard Co., Ky., Marriage records, bond #198.
78 Forrest Calico, History of Garrard County, Kentucky, and Its Churches (New York, 1947), p. 80.
79 Ancie Walker Burns, Record of Wills in Garrard County, Kentucky, 1796-1851 (n.p., 1933), pp. 105-06.
80 Calico, op. cit., pp. 40, 80.
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building around 1798–1800, and it became a tavern. The name, Old Burnt Tavern, was derived from two fires, in which the dining room is saved and added to. Edmond, Jane Ann and their son, David Finley Smith, operated the noted tavern, which was an important stopping-place for stagecoach and horseback travelers from the North on their way to Crab Orchard Springs, Danville, Nashville, and Florence, Ala. Here families stopped, ate and slept overnight while they rested from long and tiresome stagecoach trips. Prices for lodging and refreshments at Burnt Tavern in the 1830s and 1840s included: Breakfast 25 cents; dinner 37½ cents; supper 25 cents; night’s lodging 12½ cents; whiskey per half pint 12½ cents; cider per quart 6¼ cents; peach brandy per quart 12½ cents; wine, rum or cognac brandy per half pint 25 cents; beer per quart 12½ cents; and hay, grain and stabling for a horse overnight 37½ cents. Burnt Tavern also served as a mail stagecoach stop in the mid-1830s.81
Jane Ann is the earliest family member for whom photographs have been found, along with two of their sons, Merrill and Edmund Finley Smith. Edmond’s will, proved in 1848, names, in addition to Jane Ann, seven children (listed below with others) and four grandchildren, Mary Smith, Mary Virginia Smith, Presley Talbot and Charles Talbot. Executors were Jane Ann and their oldest son, Harold F. Smith.82 During the Civil War the Smiths were southern in their sympathies. However, they were located between two Union camps (Camp Dick Robinson and Camp Nelson) and the officers of both camps used the tavern for their entertainment to the inconvenience of its owners. It was in Federal possession for the greater part of the war, with the exception of the time of Bragg’s invasion of Kentucky and his retreat from Perryville where the largest battle of the war in Kentucky was fought. According to one historian, the period during which this tavern existed was one of the most exciting of the history of Garrard County. He says, “A volume could be written about its guests [among them Jerry Lind, the ‘Swedish Nightingale,’ and Henry Clay], pleasure seekers, statesmen, men of business and travelers of every kind, so right is it in legend and story.”83
Jane Ann lived through these exciting times to the age of almost 86. She is buried in the Burnt Tavern graveyard at Bryantsville. The tract of land on
81 J. Winston Coleman, Historic Kentucky (Lexington, 1967), p. 31.
82 Burns, loc. cit.
83 Calico, op. cit., pp. 82–83.
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building around 1798–1800, and it became a tavern. The name, Old Burnt Tavern, was derived from two fires, in which the dining room is saved and added to. Edmond, Jane Ann and their son, David Finley Smith, operated the noted tavern, which was an important stopping-place for stagecoach and horseback travelers from the North on their way to Crab Orchard Springs, Danville, Nashville, and Florence, Ala. Here families stopped, ate and slept overnight while they rested from long and tiresome stagecoach trips. Prices for lodging and refreshments at Burnt Tavern in the 1830s and 1840s included: Breakfast 25 cents; dinner 37½ cents; supper 25 cents; night’s lodging 12½ cents; whiskey per half pint 12½ cents; cider per quart 6¼ cents; peach brandy per quart 12½ cents; wine, rum or cognac brandy per half pint 25 cents; beer per quart 12½ cents; and hay, grain and stabling for a horse overnight 37½ cents. Burnt Tavern also served as a mail stagecoach stop in the mid-1830s.81
Jane Ann is the earliest family member for whom photographs have been found, along with two of their sons, Merrill and Edmund Finley Smith. Edmond’s will, proved in 1848, names, in addition to Jane Ann, seven children (listed below with others) and four grandchildren, Mary Smith, Mary Virginia Smith, Presley Talbot and Charles Talbot. Executors were Jane Ann and their oldest son, Harold F. Smith.82 During the Civil War the Smiths were southern in their sympathies. However, they were located between two Union camps (Camp Dick Robinson and Camp Nelson) and the officers of both camps used the tavern for their entertainment to the inconvenience of its owners. It was in Federal possession for the greater part of the war, with the exception of the time of Bragg’s invasion of Kentucky and his retreat from Perryville where the largest battle of the war in Kentucky was fought. According to one historian, the period during which this tavern existed was one of the most exciting of the history of Garrard County. He says, “A volume could be written about its guests [among them Jerry Lind, the ‘Swedish Nightingale,’ and Henry Clay], pleasure seekers, statesmen, men of business and travelers of every kind, so right is it in legend and story.”83
Jane Ann lived through these exciting times to the age of almost 86. She is buried in the Burnt Tavern graveyard at Bryantsville. The tract of land on
81 J. Winston Coleman, Historic Kentucky (Lexington, 1967), p. 31.
82 Burns, loc. cit.
83 Calico, op. cit., pp. 82–83.
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which Jane Ann and Edmond lived remained successively in the possession of their descendants until 1944 when it was sold by Mrs. Bourbon Dawes.
Known children of Jane Ann (Finley) and Edmond Smith are:84
17 i. Harold F. Smith, born 1803, married Catherine Brown.
18 ii. Alzina Smith, born 1806, married ____ Rice.
19 iii. Merrill Smith, born 1809, married Hannah Burnside.
20 iv. Elizabeth F. Smith, born 1811, married John G. Talbot 11 Aug. 1829; died 1842.
21 v. Mary Jane Smith, born 1814, married Nathan L. Smith.
22 vi. Sally Ann Smith, born 1816, married ____ Bowie.
23 vii. Edmund Smith, born 1819, married Mary Myers, Jan. 1835.
24 viii. David Smith, born 1821, married (1) Martha Kemper, (2) Mrs. Pauline Kennedy; died 1881.
25 ix. Anna Maria Smith, born 1825, died young.
26 x. Josephine Peachy Smith, born 1827, married Simon Drake.
7. Edmund3 Finley (David2, John1) was born about 181785 in Mercer Co., Va. (now Garrard Co., Ky.). He married Catherine ____ sometime prior to 17 June 1819 and most likely before 1810.86 Most of what is known about Edmund had to be reconstructed from census and land records. No records were found for him in the Dicks River area, suggesting he had moved out before the rest of the family went to Indiana. In addition, his son John Finley (probably his oldest) gives his birthplace (about 1810) as Tennessee in 1850, 1860 and 1870 census records.87 Tennessee records have been searched to no avail. The earliest record of any kind found for Edmund was a land entry for 160 acres (Range 2E, Township 2N, Section 10, SE¼) in Washington Co., Ind., on 9 April 1813. Adjacent to him in the SW¼ was an entry made by H. [Harvey] Finley on 16 Jan. 1818.88 Edmund and
84 Harold F. Stout, The Clan Finley (2nd ed., Dover, Ohio, 1956), p. 5.
85 Estimated from age given in Hopkins Co., Texas, 1850 census, p. 22, family 163-165, residence of Lewis Finley.
86 Washington Co., Ind., Deed Bk. B, p. 247. Their son John was born in 1810 according to census records of 1850, 1860 and 1870 (infra).
87 Hunt Co., Texas, 1850 census, p. 416, family 163-169; Los Angeles Co., Calif., 1860 census, p. 57, family 515-504; Tulare Co., Calif., 1870 census, p. 276, family 65-64.
88 Washington Co., Ind., Record of Land Entries, p. 13.
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Catherine, his wife, sold 40 acres of this property on 17 June 1819.89 They are not found in the 1820 Indiana census, nor have they been found elsewhere that year. However, in 1830 they are found in Wayne Co., Mo., not far from brother Jesse.90 By 1840 they had moved on to Van Buren County (renamed Cass County in 1849), Mo.91 Bates County was formed from portions of Cass, Van Buren and Jackson counties in 1841 and it is here that some of his nephews (sons of Samuel) are found in 1850. However, by 1850 Edmund and Catherine had moved on and were found living in the home of Lewis Findley in Hopkins Co., Texas.92 In Cass Co., Mo., there were sufficient land records to identify two additional probable sons of Edmund and Catherine. In 1845 and 1848 David Finley and Margaret A., his wife, sold property; while in 1852 Lewis Finley and Letitia, his wife, and Edmund and Catherine each sold two parcels.93 In the 1850 census, Edmund and Catherine, aged 63 and 65, are living with Lewis and Leticia, aged 25 and 35, while one by one David and Margaret Findley, aged 35 and 32.94 No further information is available on Edmund.
Probable sons of Edmund and Catherine Finley include:
+27 i. John4 Finley, born about 1810 in Tennessee.
+28 ii. David Finley, born about 1815 in Missouri.
+29 iii. Lewis Finley, born about 1825 in Missouri.
8. Samuel3 Finley (David2, John1) was born 14 Feb. 1790 in Mercer Co., Va. (now Garrard Co., Ky.).95 He died 15 Sept. 1835 in Macon Co., Ill., at the age of 45.96 On 9 May 1809 he married Martha (Patsy) Downing, daughter of Capt. James and Nancy Downing, long time friend and neighbor
89 Washington Co., Ind., Deed Bk. B, p. 247.
90 Wayne Co., Mo., 1830 census, pg. 38, 41.
91 Van Buren Co., Mo., 1840 census, p. 138.
92 Hopkins Co., Texas, 1850 census, p. 22, family 165-165.
93 Cass Co., Mo., Deed Bk. C, p. 389; Deed Bk. F, pp. 10, 127, 148, 448, 456; Deed Bk. O, p. 127.
94 Hopkins Co., Texas, 1850 census, p. 22, family 165-165; p. 20, family 156-156.
95 Bible record in possession of author.
96 Macon Co., Ill., Probate Court, case #17, box 1, LDS film #983281.
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of David Finley.97 Martha was born 18 Jan. 1788,98 probably in the Dicks River area of Kentucky. She died 15 Nov. 1832,99 probably in Orange Co., Ind. Samuel married Rachel Black on 21 Nov. 1833 in Macon Co., Ill.100 Shortly after the marriage of Samuel and Martha, the young couple moved to Orange Co., Ind. Samuel served in the Indiana Territory militia during the War of 1812 in the same unit with his brother Jesse.101 Samuel was found on the payroll of Paddack’s 5th Regiment, Capt. Charles Busey’s company, as a private for the period 18 Feb. to 19 March 1813 for which he received $8, one month’s pay. In 1817 Samuel and Martha received a gift of 160 acres from his parents along with like gifts to four other siblings.102 At the same time Samuel bought an additional 160 acres adjacent to the property that was given to him (SW quarter in Range 1E, Township 2N, Section 2) for $500.103 Samuel and Martha (Patsy) lived in Orange County where most, if not all, of their eight children were born. When Martha died 15 Nov. 1832 at the age of 44, she left Samuel with children ranging in age from 3 years to 19 years. Martha may have been the victim of cholera for about this time an epidemic swept through the Upper Lost River area where they lived.104 (Samuel’s brother Harvey had died in May 1832 and Harvey’s wife and two of their children died in July and Aug. 1833.)
Samuel and his children moved to Decatur, Macon Co., Ill., where less than two years after he remarried Rachel Black on 21 Nov. 1833, Samuel died at the age of 45 leaving five minor children.
Samuel left a will and there are many court records concerning the disposition of his property and the guardianship of his minor children.105 His will, written in July 1835, about two months before his death, divided his property equally among his wife and his children, except that his son James was to receive “one certain yellow filley now one year old past.” In the event Rachel remarried, his property was then to revert to his children and be divided equally among them. His list of goods and chattels contained 59 items including mostly household furnishings, tools, oxen, calves and cows, sheep, hogs, horses and farm supplies, including three bee stands and bees. Total value was appraised at $585.12½. He owned a total of 360 acres which had been entered at the Land Office at Vandalia, Ill.106 Two parcels were timber land four miles from Decatur; a third was prairie land. Total value was set at $1600.107 Alvin, Samuel’s eldest son, was the executor for his estate.
Apparently, some difficulty arose in the division of the property, for on 29 Aug. 1836 John Finley (son of Edmund above) and his wife Mahala (oldest daughter of Samuel) petitioned the court for the division of Samuel’s property.108 In September commissioners were appointed to divide the property.109 On 3 Nov. 1836 the commissioners reported to the court that “the said lands and tenements cannot be divided without manifest prejudice to the proprietors of the same.” Now the matter was resolved is not given in the existing records of Macon County.
Nor did the matter of the guardianship for the minor children of Samuel go smoothly. Joseph Hewett was appointed guardian for minor children Jefferson, James, John, Samuel and Elizabeth on 19 Sept. 1836.110 On 25 March 1837 brother Alvin was appointed their guardian and offered bond in the amount of $2600 jointly with Randall Davis.111 Apparently that arrangement was not permanent, for on 16 June 1837 a similar document was presented naming Alvin guardian, but the bond, in the same amount, was made jointly by Alvin and Jacob Black (presumably kin to the widow Finley).112 However, the widow, Rachel Black Finley, remarried Hugh McCully in August113 and on 18 October Hugh and Rachel McCully summoned Alvin to court, claiming he, as guardian for the children, owed Rachel $50 the care of the minor children. An inventory of the services she provided included such items as making two pair of pantaloons, several shirts, two pair of socks, two bed quilts and one domestic sheet, washing and mending, and furnishing victuals and drink at sundries times” for seven months between 15 Sept. 1835 and 1 May 1836. The itemized list totaled $53 and a judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiff. Alvin filed an appeal and the McCullys were ordered to appear in May 1838.114 However, Alvin died before the appointed date,115 and Henry Snyder was officially appointed guardian on 3 Nov. 1838.116
One other item of interest was found in Samuel’s probate records. Jacob Black testified on 14 March 1840 that John Finley and Mahala, his wife (formerly Mahala Finley), Jefferson Finley and James Finley, heirs of Samuel Finley, are no longer residents of Illinois, but reside in the state of Missouri.117
Known children of Samuel and Martha (Downing) Finley include:118
30 i. Mahala4 Finley, born 22 May 1811, married her first cousin John Finley, son of Samuel’s brother Edmund, 25 Dec. 1831. After their suit involving the division of her father’s property in 1836 and sometime before 1840, they moved to Missouri, taking younger brothers Jefferson and James with them. Since Jefferson and James appeared in court in Macon County in Jan. and April 1838 to choose Henry Snyder their guardian, that narrows the time of the move to Missouri. By 22 March 1840 husband John
97 Carmen J. Finley, “Identifying the Revolutionary Soldier James Downing of Lincoln County, Virginia (Kentucky),” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, v. 77 (1989), pp. 169-85.
98 Bible record in possession of author.
99 Ibid.
100 Macon Co., Ill., Marriages, p. 7.
101 Muster roll of Capt. Charles Busey’s Company of 5th Reg’t Indiana Militia Infantry, 18 Feb. to 19 March 1813, National Archives and Record Service, Washington, D.C.
102 Orange Co., Ind., Deed Bk. A, p. 72.
103 Ibid., p. 70.
104 Pearl S. Wilson, records searcher, Paoli, Ind., to Carmen J. Finley, 2 June 1984.
105 Macon Co., Ill., Probate Court, case #17, box 1, LDS film #983281.
106 Illinois State Land Grants 2146, 2410, 24 April 1820, Records of the Bureau of Land Management, Record Group 49, National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C.
107 Zero Parks Huffe, Abstracts of Macon County, Illinois, Probate Court Records, 1831-1847 (n.p., 1968), p. 4.
108 Macon Co., Ill., Probate Bk. A, p. 76.
109 Macon Co., Ill., Court Records 1831-1848, pp. 102-03, 19 Sept. 1836, LDS film #983754.
110 Huffe, op. cit., p. 16.
111 Macon Co., Ill., Probate file #11.
112 Ibid.
113 Macon Co., Ill., Marriages, p. 12.
114 Macon Co., Ill., Probate Bk. A, p. 233.
115 Macon Co., Ill., Abstracts of Circuit Court Records, p. 26.
116 Huffe, op. cit., p. 5.
117 Macon Co., Ill., Probate Court, case #17, box 1, LDS film #983281.
118 Bible in possession of author.
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had married Sarah Masters in Jackson Co., Mo.19 Attempts to find either court records or death records involving Mahala have failed. Family tradition, as related by Ethel Work Blalock, granddaughter of this John Finley and Sarah Masters, says Mahala and John had nine children,20 however, nothing has been found to substantiate this.
*31 ii. Alvin Finley, born 9 Oct. 1811, Orange Co., Ind.
+32 iii. Nancy J. Finley, born 25 Feb. 1816, Orange Co., Ind.
33 iv. Jefferson Finley, born 25 April 1818, Orange Co., Ind.; married Frances Poe, 1 Feb. 1838 in Macon Co., Ill. Shortly after that they went to Missouri with John and Mahala Finley. Nothing further is known of Jefferson.
34 v. James Finley, born 20 Jan. 1821, Orange Co., Ind. He went to Missouri with his older sister Mahala and brother Jefferson sometime between 1838 and 1840. A James Finley married Caroline Masters, 21 May 1840, in Jackson Co., Mo., soon after John Finley married Sarah Masters.21 It is tempting to believe it is this James Finley who married Caroline Masters but no proof has been found. In 1845 in Cass County he was appointed guardian for his brother Samuel, then aged 19, David Finley (most likely his cousin and younger brother of Martha-in-law John) acted as surety.22 About five years later, on 24 April 1850, James bought 33 acres23 from Samuel, which he had deeded in Bates County in 1847 (Bates County was formed from Cass, Van Buren and Jackson counties in 1841; Cass County was organized as Van Buren County and renamed Cass in 1849). In the 1850 census James, aged 28, was found living alone not far away from his younger brother John, Kesiah and their two children.24
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+35 vi. John Finley, born 5 June 1823, Orange Co., Ind.
+36 vii. Samuel Finley, born 6 March 1826, Orange Co., Ind.
+37 viii. Elizabeth Finley, born 23 April 1829, Orange Co., Ind.
9. Jesse2 Finley (David1, John1) was born 17 May 1792, Mercer Co., Va (now Garrard Co., Ky.).125 He probably died before 1860 and probably in Dunklin Co., Mo.126 Jesse married Rachel Colglazure on 20 July 1815, probably in Washington Co., Ind.127 She was born 28 Dec. 1788 in Westmoreland Co., Pa., the daughter of Jacob Colglazure who later moved to Washington Co., Ind.128 Rachel probably died between 1850 and 1860, probably in Texas.129
Jesse served in the Indiana Territory militia during the War of 1812 in the same unit with his brother Samuel.130 He was found on the payroll of Patrick’s 5th Regiment, Capt. Charles Bussey’s company, as a private for the period 18 Feb. 1813 to 15 May 1813, for which he received $16, two months’ pay. However, this does not agree with a later application for bounty land that Jesse made 5 Aug. 1853 while living in Greenville, Hunt Co., Texas. In that document he stated he enlisted in June 1814 and served for one year. He was mustered in at Paoli and discharged in Vincennes, but had lost his certificate of discharge.131
In 1817 Jesse and Rachel received a gift of 160 acres from his parents
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along with like gifts to four other siblings.132 They were still living in Orange County in 1820,133 but by 1830 had moved to Wayne Co., Mo., where they were living near his brother Edmond.134 The move was probably made between March 1827 (when son Edmond was born) and Oct. 1829 (when Joseph Jefferson was born) if the 1850 census in Hunt Co., Texas, correctly states the respective birth places of their sons Edmond and Joseph Jefferson.135 However, the 1900 census for Edmond states he was born in Missouri,136 so the family could have made the move a couple of years earlier. Unfortunately, the Wayne County Courthouse burned in 1854 with all land records, so it is impossible to get information on their land holdings. In 1840 Jesse was found in Stoddard Co., Mo.137 adjacent to Wayne County. By 1850 they had gone to Hunt Co., Texas, where he, along with sons Milton, George, Edmond, Joseph J. and Marion, and brother Edmond and his son John, all settled in Mercer’s Colony.138 Each received from Charles Fenton Mercer and Associates, known as the Texas Association, a certificate issued either 6 or 7 May 1850. Married men received certificates for 640 acres (Jesse, Milton, George, Edmond, Sr., John); single men received certificates for 320 acres each (Edmond Jr., Joseph J. and Marion). The description of a 320 acre survey for Jesse, done by next month, places his property on Lake Fork Creek of the Sabine River.139 By the time the 1850 census was taken Jesse and Rachel and their unmarried sons owning Mercer’s Colony certificates were found living together, with married sons William, Milton and George nearby. However, by the time the 1860 census was taken, Jesse had moved to Missouri and was living in the home of David and
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Margaret Finley in Dunklin County.141 By 1870 Jesse had disappeared from the home of his son David and has not been found elsewhere. Presumably, Rachel died between 1850 and 1860 when Jesse moved to Missouri and Jesse died between 1860 and 1870, although no proof of this has been found to date.
Known children of Jesse and Rachel (Colglazure) Finley include:142
*38 i. William4 Finley, born 6 March 1816 in Indiana, probably Orange County or nearby.
*39 ii. Milton Finley, born 6 Feb. 1818 in Indiana, probably Orange County or nearby.
*40 iii. David Finley, born 1 Sept. 1819 in Orange Co., Ind.
41 iv. Samuel Finley, born 22 May 1821 in Indiana.
*42 v. Elizabeth Ellen Finley, born 10 March 1823 in Indiana, probably Orange County or nearby.
*43 vi. George W. Finley, born April 1825 in Indiana, probably Orange County or nearby.
*44 vii. Edmond Finley, born 27 March 1827 in Indiana or Missouri.
*45 viii. Joseph Jefferson Finley, born 5 Oct. 1829 in Missouri, probably Wayne County.
46 ix. Marion Finley, born 16 Aug. 1830 in Missouri, probably Wayne County. He received a certificate for 320 acres in Mercer’s Colony on 7 May 1850.143 Marion married Arminda Kerbo, 17 April 1862 in Hopkins County.144
47 x. Mary Elizabeth Finley, born 11 March 1833, probably in Wayne or Stoddard Co., Mo.
10. Harvey3 Finley (David2, John1) was born 11 Feb. 1795 in Mercer (now Garrard) Co., Ky., and died 26 May 1832 at the age of 37.145 Harvey married Elizabeth McKinney, born 1 May 1790, daughter of David and
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Margaret (Wallace) McKinney,146 24 Jan., 1816.147 Elizabeth died 3 Aug. 1833 at the age of 43 and is buried near Harvey.148
Harvey was one of five children of David and Elizabeth to receive a quarter section of land gift from his parents in Aug. 1817.149 They are listed in the 1820 census in Washington County. After Harvey’s death in May 1832, his brother Cyrus was appointed guardian to his seven infant children.151 In July and August of the next year (1833) two of Harvey’s children, David and Elizabeth Ann, and his wife Elizabeth died.152 That was the time of a cholera epidemic in Washington County that swept down into the upper Lost River valley where the family lived.153 With five premature Finley deaths (including Samuel’s wife Martha) during a 15 month period it seems likely cholera could have been the cause.
Over the next nine years, the guardianship of Harvey and Elizabeth’s children changed several times, but Cyrus was involved in all but the final assignment for William, if not as guardian, then as surety. On 10 Feb. 1835 Joseph Maxwell, Cyrus’ brother-in-law, was appointed guardian of the remaining five orphans of Harvey and Elizabeth.154 On 8 May 1843 Cyrus was reappointed guardian of Thomas, Mary and William, and William Montgomery was appointed guardian of Margaret.155 While on 12 Aug. 1844 Cyrus was again appointed guardian of Mary Jane and David McKinney was appointed guardian of William.156
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Known children of Harvey and Elizabeth (McKinney) Finley include:157
48 i. Eliza Ann4 Finley, born Feb. 1817, died 22 Aug. 1833.158
49 ii. James Harvey Finley, born April 1820, died 11 Jan. 1860.159
50 iii. David M. Finley, born Jan. 1823, died 20 July 1833.160
51 iv. Thomas Jefferson Finley.
52 v. Margaret Emily Finley, born 9 Aug. 1825, married William Montgomery 5 Oct. 1842;161 died 24 Jan. 1870.162
53 vi. Mary Jane Finley, was licensed to marry Thomas W. Riley 7 Nov. 1844.163
54 vii. William Alexander Finley,164 married Elizabeth C. Lewis 21 Dec. 1854.165
11. Mary3 (Polly) Finley (David2, John1) was born 9 June 1797166 in Garrard Co., Ky. She died 4 Oct. 1842 in Orange Co., Ind., at the age of 45. She married Joseph Maxwell, probably in Orange Co., Ind., prior to 15 Aug. 1817167 for on that date she and Joseph received a gift of 100 acres from her parents.168 Joseph Maxwell, son of James and ____ (Brown) Maxwell, was born 11 March 1795 in South Carolina. He died 26 Jan. 1881 in Lawrence, Douglas Co., Kans., where he had been living with daughters Martha Jane Lindley and Mary Elizabeth Newlin.
The Maxwells removed to the Lost River area of Orange County in 1811
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where Joseph grew to maturity and served with the Rangers to quell the Indians. He also served as a Justice of the Peace for many years. In 1832 when Cyrus was appointed guardian for the children of his brother Harvey, Joseph acted as surety.169 In 1835 Joseph Maxwell became guardian of the five living orphans of Harvey and Elizabeth.170 Mary (Finley) Maxwell was one of four children who predeceased her father for it is “Mary Maxwell’s heirs” listed in David’s final settlement.171 After Mary’s death Joseph remarried and had six more children. In 1866 he moved to Howard Co., Ind., and in 1878 to Lawrence, Douglas Co., Kans., where he lived with his daughters noted above.
Children of Mary (Finley) and Joseph Maxwell, all born in Orange County, include:172
55 i. Almira4 Maxwell, born 1 Dec. 1816; married John W. Tucker, 26 Sept. 1833,173 Orange County.
56 ii. Eliza Jane Maxwell, born 9 Oct. 1818.
57 iii. James David Maxwell, born 14 Feb. 1820, died 22 Nov. 1831 in Orange County.
58 iv. America Ann Maxwell, born 25 Jan. 1822, married William O. Jeter, 24 Jan. 1850 in Orange County.174
59 v. Martha Jane Maxwell, born 23 Sept. 1823; married Alfred Lindley, 9 Jan. 1845.175
60 vi. Louiza Maxwell, born 25 Sept. 1825; married Jonathan Dixon, 6 March 1845, Orange County.176
61 vii. Mary Elizabeth Maxwell, born 23 Jan. 1828; married Mahlon H. Newlin, 15 Jan. 1846.177
62 viii. Joseph Jefferson Maxwell, born 3 July 1830; he married Martha Jane Smith, 29 Oct. 1852 in Paoli, Orange Co., Ind. He died 12 May 1919 in Los Angeles, Calif.
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63 ix. George Washington Maxwell, born 4 Oct. 1832.
64 x. Cyrus Maxwell, born 1 Jan. 1835, died 13 March 1873, Orange County.178
65 xi. Sarah (Browe) Maxwell, born 16 Sept. 1838.
66 xii. John Tucker Maxwell, born 1842.
12. Cyrus3 Finley (David2, John1) was born 25 Nov. 1799 in Garrard Co., Ky.179 He died 14 Dec. 1875,180 being David’s only son to remain in Orange County and survive him. He married Rachel Downey on 17 Dec. 1818.181 Rachel was born 15 Sept. 1795 and died 10 Aug. 1856, probably in Orange County.182
At the time of his marriage he had already received a gift of 160 acres from his parents.183 Cyrus was the one who assumed the family responsibilities when his brother Harvey died in 1832 leaving seven young children.184 He was the one who made the somewhat unique agreement with his father in 1845 described above.185 And he was the one who carried out David’s wishes, administered his estate, and reported the final settlement in 1851.186 Cyrus outlived his own three sons, Merrill, David and James, so when Cyrus died 14 Dec. 1875, intestate, his son-in-law Gilbert P. Lee was appointed administrator.187 Named in his settlement were Eliza J. Lee, daughter; Cyrus E. Finley, grandson and son of Merrill Finley, deceased; Ellen R. Mahan and Merrill P. Finley, grandchildren and children of David Finley, deceased; Eliza Turley and Martha Mahan, grandchildren and children of James Finley, deceased.
JOHN AND MARY FINLEY
Known children of Cyrus and Rachel (Downey) Finley include:188
67 i. James4 Finley, born Sept. 1820; married Amanda Johnson; died 14 June 1860.
68 ii. David Finley, born 21 Aug. 1821; married Elizabeth Teagarden, daughter of John and Lucinda (Irvin) Teagarden, 30 Sept. 1847;189 died 16 July 1854.
69 iii. Merrill Finley, born 25 March 1827; married Sarah M. Wright, 4 Jan. 1849.190
70 iv. Eliza Jane Finley, married Gilbert P. Lee, 16 Sept. 1851.191
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