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Note for: Jennie Finch, - Index

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No children.

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Note for: Frank Finch, - Index

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No children.

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Note for: Minnie Finch, 1 Aug 1884 - Index

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(Minnie Pearl?) Died at age 10. Minnie may have been known as Pearl. Lucy Jane (Finch) Constable notes: "We visited often at Uncle Hi's (Hiram Finch) when I was very young as Pearl, his girl who died at about eight, was called my twin cousin, as she was born August 1 and I August 12."

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Note for: Ralph Finch, - Index

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Lucy Jane Constable note: "Works in the Cooperstown bank."

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Note for: Edward David Finch, 8 Jun 1864 - 8 Jan 1958 Index

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Edward's second wife was Carol Mills Baxter. They had a daughter, Dawn Finch.

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Note for: Emma Vannakin, - Index

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Could be Emma Van Auken.

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Note for: Iva Mae Finch, 28 Sep 1888 - 10 Feb 1966 Index

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     Date:   Walton Cem.,Walton,N.Y.

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     Iva Mae Finch had two boys and two girls. After Iva's first husband, Louis W. Allen was killed by a bull, she married a man whose last name was Lewis. Iva and Lewis lived in Cannonsville, NY.

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Note for: Louis W. Allen, 1883 - 14 May 1920 Index

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     Marianne (McCaffrey) Greenfield states that Iva and Louis had a double wedding with Archie Constable and Lucy Jane Finch.
        (From the Walton Reporter..."Walton Man Killed by Bull in Stable...Louis W. Allen's Death Caused by Shock of Accident...Entered Stall to Feed Bull...Stepped in front of animal which crushed him against wall of barn. Louis W. Allen, a well-known Walton farmer living on the Loomis road, was fatally injured late Friday afternoon when crushed against the barn wall by a Holstein bull which he had purchased that day of John S. Gosper. Mr. Allen only lived about half an hour after the accident, dying before the arrival of a physician. Mr. Allen was 37 years of age." The article describes in detail facts about the bull and details of the accident. It finishes, "Mr. Allen's mother, Mrs. Thomas Allen, was at Delancey at the time of the accident. The funeral service was held Tuesday afternoon at one o'clock at the home conducted by Rev. C.A. Hubbell with burial in the Walton cemetery. Mr. Allen is survived by his wife and four small children." (Handwritten note indicates the date is May 14, 1920.)
        Marianne (McCaffrey) Greenfield stated that Uncle Max Constable said Louis had purchased this large prize bull from Mr. Gosper who lived down the road and took it home with him to Loomis. That night, as he was feeding it, he bent over the manger and the bull merely lifted its head and crushed Louis's chest. Louis died later that night. About two days later, Mr. Gosper said, "The bull had to die because he had killed a man.” He took a 32 Special and had to shot the bull in the head 10 times to kill him.
        EPILOGUE: Walton Reporter, June 1925: The house and wagon house on the farm of Mrs. Iva Allen, located three miles from Walton on the Third Brook side of the Loomis hill, was burned to the ground Saturday night. There was insurance of only $900 on the house and its contents and the wagon house…Mrs. Allen’s husband, Louis Allen, was killed by a bull in the large barn and for the past two years the farm has been unoccupied…Mrs. Allen had moved much of the furniture to her rooms in the Boice block in the village, but a considerable quantity remained in the house, including a number of family heirlooms.