Brief Life History of Robert Jefferson
When Robert Jefferson Finney was born on 7 October 1824, in Pease Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States, his father, Joseph Finney, was 23 and his mother, Mary Wilson Mitchell, was 31. He married Rebecca Gow on 21 March 1850, in Belmont, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1870. He died on 24 September 1902, in Pease Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Scotch Ridge Cemetery, Martins Ferry, Pease Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States.
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- Robert Finney, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Robert Jefferson Finney - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Robert Jefferson Finney
- Robert Finney, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called from Old English and Old Norse finn ‘coarse grass’ + Old English (ge)hæg ‘enclosure’ or ēg ‘island, land partly surrounded by water’, such as the lost place Fynney in Cheddleton, Staffordshire (recorded as Fyneye in 1320), Fenay in Almondbury (Yorkshire), Finney in Croston (Lancashire), Finney Hill in Kingsley (Cheshire), and perhaps also Fenny Rough in Chaddesley Corbett (Worcestershire). Compare Feeney .
English: habitational name perhaps also from Vinals Farm in Cuckfield or Vinehall in Mountfield (both in Sussex), or Viney's Wood in Crundale (Kent); or from some other place described in Middle English as a fin-haw (Old English fīn-haga) ‘wood-heap enclosure’.
Irish: from Ó Fidhne, see Feeney 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Robert Jefferson Finney
Robert was the oldest of eight children born to Joseph and Mary Wilson Mitchell Finney at Scenery Hill on the outskirts of Martins Ferry, Ohio. Later descendants of Robert visited the home in 2015. Fo …
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