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Name
Oliver M. Finger   #3738
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Born
7 Feb 1836
Place
Benton, Yates, New York
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Died
28 Nov 1870
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     approx. age 34


Buried
Lakeview Cemetery

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Spouse
Date
1 Jul 1865
Place
Penn Yan, Yates, New York
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  1  Annette "Nettie" Finger 6 Jan 1870

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He was a blacksmith and lived in Ovid, NY all his life. - Danielle Fingar

Found him listed on the 1855 Potter, Yates, New York state census as Aliserall Finger age 18.

OLIVER M. FINGER, of Benton, enlisted at Penn Yan Aug. 30, aged 24 years. Discharged for disability June 18, 1862, at Portsmouth, Va. Subsequent service in Co. I, 148th N.Y. Infantry. - Yates County's "Boys In Blue" pg 38.

The Officer's Certificate of Disability of Soldier says:
"While engaged in battle with the rebels near Petersburg in the State of Virginia on or about the 25th day of June 1864 the said Oliver M. Finger received a gunshot wound from a minie ball which struck him near the left collar bone and passed through his neck." Signed by Martin S. Hicks, Captain, Company I - Civil War Pension File, NARA

He enlisted on the 4th of September 1862 as a private in Company I commanded by Captain Martin S. Hicks in the 148th Regiment of the New York State Volunteers. He was discharged in Virginia 27 May 1865.

Found him on the 1850 Benton, Yates, New York census (img 5) age 13, born New York.

Found him on the 1870 Tyrone, Schuyler, New York census (img 42), age 36, Invalid.



                                                                    | JOHANNES "JOHN" FINGER Sr. 1752
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                                  | JACOB J. FINGER  1786           | 
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                                  |                                 | TYSJE DECKER 1754 
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| John B. Finger 1811             |
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|                                 |                                 | JOHANNES TRAVER  1752   
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|                                 | CHRISTINA TRAVER 1794           |
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|                                                                   | EVA GROT 1757 
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|- Oliver M. Finger   
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|                                                                   | Andrew Rector Sr. 1762 
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|                                 | Teal Rector  1789               |   
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|                                 |                                 | Charity Rockefeller 1766 
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| Elizabeth Rector 1817           |
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                                  | Eleanor Finger 1790             |
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