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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: David Finley Note Born: 1 Jun 1754 at Augusta Co, , , Va Married: Bef 10 Feb 1781 at VA Or KY, , , Died: 19 Apr 1848 at Orleans, , Orange Co, IN Father: John Finley Mother: Mary Caldwell
WIFE
Name: Elizabeth Mounts Note Born: 4 Jan 1763 at Bedford Co ? , , , VA Died: 9 Jan 1835 at Orleans, , Orange, IN
CHILDREN
Name: John Finley Born: Abt 1782-1784 at Lincoln Co, , , VA Died: Aft 27 Aug 1851
Name: Jane Ann Finley Born: 9 Nov 1785 at Lincoln Co, , , VA Died: 12 May 1871 at Bryantsville ? , , Garrard Co, KY Husband: Edmund Smith
Name: Edmund Finley Born: Abt 1787 at Mercer Co, , , VA Died: Bef 1860 at Hopkins Co ? , , , TX Wife: Catherine
Name: Samuel Finley Born: 14 Feb 1790 at Mercer Co, , , VA Died: 15 Sep 1835 at Decatur, , Macon Co, IL Wife: Martha Downing
Name: Jesse Finley Born: 17 May 1792 at Mercer Co, , , VA Died: at Dunklin Co ? , , , MO ? Wife: Rachel Colglazure
Name: Harvey Finley Born: 11 Feb 1795 at Mercer Co, , , KY Died: 26 May 1832 at Orange Co, , , IN Wife: Elizabeth Mc Kinney
Name: Mary (polly) Finley Born: 9 Jun 1797 at Garrard Co, , , KY Died: 4 Oct 1842 at Orange Co ? , , , IN Husband: Joseph W Maxwell
Name: Cyrus Finley Born: 25 Nov 1799 at Garrard Co, , , KY Died: 14 Dec 1875 at Orleans, , Orange Co, IN Wife: Rachel Downey
Name: Elizabeth Finley Born: 8 Feb 1802 at Garrard Co, , , KY Died: 25 Sep 1889 at Bloomington, , Mclean Co, IL Husband: John Holman Sneed
Name: Jefferson Finley Born: 16 May 1805 at Garrard Co, , , KY Died: 19 Nov 1829 at Orleans, , Orange Co, IN Wife: Miriam Brooks
NOTES
1). !Born, probably in Augusta Co., VA on the 297 acre portion of Robinson property bought by father in 1746. Went to Prince Edward Co. with family in 1765, aged 11. Then to Montgomery now Wythe Co. , VA in 1773, aged about 19. Inherited parents 327 acreson Sally Run, waters of Reed Creek, with brother, Samuel, 1779. Had already staked out 1000 acres on Dix River now Garrard Co., KY moved there around 1781. Last child, Jefferson, born 1805. Moved on to Orange Co., IN about 1811, where he lived until his death. Revolutionary War soldier. Jehu Stevens Co., Montgomery Co., VA militia, late 1770 s on roll of Capt. James Downing s Company of Militia in Lincoln Co. and fought Shawnees General Rogers Clark , October November 1782. Finley Cemetery records say he fought at Battle of Cowpens family tradition . History of Orange Co., IN, 1965, pages 383, 405, 408 shows land purchases. DAR, Lost River Chapter, Cemetery Records, vol. 3, 1947, Finley Cemetery, P. 224. See also, John and Mary Finley of Montgomery Wythe County, VA, by Carmen J. Finley, Santa Rosa, CA 1990 on file at Sonoma State Univer sity, Rohnert Park, CA, Ruben Salazar Library Special Collections.
2).  !Before their immigration to KY, the Matthias Mounts family lived in Bedford County, VA.  Elizabeth  s sister, Mary  Polly  married Moses Collier.  From KY Court Records,  10 February 1781   Polly Collier and Betsey Finley state that their father was killed on this date.  James Alexander of Mt. Sterling, KY deposes that Matthias Mounce was killed by the limb of a tree.  He was brought to Downing  s Station.   A suit was brought by Moses Collier and Polly, his wife and David Finly and Betsey, his wife against Henry Mounts, saying defendants father died intestate in 1781  Garrard Circuit Court Book 1 407 .  Elizabeth is buried in Finley Cemetery  DAR, Lost River Chapter, Orange County Cemetery Records, Orleans, p. 224 .

						

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