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Name
Henry Finger   #10680
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Sex
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Family Line
Born
1 Jan 1830
Place
Washington County, Tennessee
Source
Died
3 Jun 1915
Place
Tennessee
Source
     approx. age 85


Buried

Father
Mother

Spouse
Date
17 Feb 1870
Place
Source
  1  James Franklin Finger 23 Sep 1872
  2  Ellen Cornelia Finger 17 Jul 1878

Spouse 2
Date
10 Sep 1881
Place
Source
  1  Martha Josephine "Josie" Finger
  2  Flora Mae Finger
  3  Jonas Henry Finger
  4  Della Ann Finger
  5  Lucy Victoria Finger

Spouse 3
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Found him on the 1850 Blount County, Tennessee census (dist 15 img 2) as Henry Finger age 18.

Found him on the 1860 District 12, Blount, Tennessee census (dist 12 img 3) age 29, single, living with his brothers and sisters Eliza, Susan, John, Marion, and Frank.

Found him on the 1870 District 6, Blount, Tennessee census (img 14) as Henry Finger age 35, single, living with his brothers and sisters Eliza, Susan, and John. His brother Marian is living next door.

Found him on the 1880 District 6, Blount, Tennessee census(dist 192 img 9) as Henry Finger age 49, single, living with his brothers and sisters Eliza, Susan and John. Also 2 children France age 8 and Ellen age 1. His brother Marion is one dwelling away.

Found him on the 1900 Civil District 6, Blount, Tennessee census (dist 18 img 13) as Henry Finger age 69, farmer. This census says born Jan 1831.

Found him on the 1910 Civil District 6, Blount, Tennessee census (dist 20 img 15) as Henry Finger age 81, own income.

Henry was born on Jan. 1, 1830 to Jonas and Delila Sliger Finger in their Washington County home. His parents later moved to Blount County [Tennessee], and Henry Finger worked as a farmer like many of his forefathers. He enlisted on Aug. 31, 1862 in Barbourville, Ky. and mustered out on May 16, 1865 in Nashville.

He married Eleanor Caroline Reavley on Feb. 17, 1870. The couple had two children before Eleanor died in December 1878 when their daughter was only 5 months old. Henry Finger's sisters helped raise the children until he married Sarah Jane Rowland on Sept. 10, 1881. The couple had six children, and their youngest child - Lucy Finger - is Jenkins' grandmother. Henry Finger farmed in the Clover Hill area and died on June 3, 1915. - Cathy Jenkins


                                                                    | Jacob Finger  1754
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                                  | Henry Finger  1781              | 
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                                  |                                 | Maria Christina Schrum 1760 
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| Jonas Finger 1807               |
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|                                 |                                 | John Houser  1747   
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|                                 | Maria Magdalena Houser 1776     |
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|                                                                   | Anna Maria Elizabeth Herleman  
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|- Henry Finger   
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| Delila Sliger 1805              |
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