Shelby County AlArchives Biographies.....Finney, James S. September 20, 1857 - 1940 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jo Ann Hatch jashatch1@frontiernet.net February 7, 2011, 12:02 am Source: Written by grandaughter Author: Jo Ann F. Hatch JAMES SCOTT FINNEY, 1857-1940 By Jo Ann Finney Hatch, (1993) Wealth, poverty, peace, war, gentility, crudeness. James Scott Finney experienced all of these conditions before he celebrated his twentieth birthday. Born in 1857 on the 3000 acre plantation of his grandfather, Reverend James M. Scott, near Harpersville, Alabama, his life promised to be that of a Southern Gentleman Planter. James Scott Finney was the third child and first son born to Francis E. Finney and Laura T. Scott, youngest daughter of the venerated Baptist Minister for whom he was named. The young father, Francis E., like his father-in-law, was a slave owner and a man of some means. As young James S. entered the third year of his privileged life, the small family; mother, father, and three children, moved to Hopkins County in East Texas. Here they obtained cotton land to be worked by their twenty seven slaves, some of whom had been with the Finney family since their exodus from Maryland in 1839. According to Hopkins County Texas tax records of 1860, 211 homes had slaves, totaling 913 slaves valued at $957,820. The Texas country was pleasing and the woodlands consisted of several types of oak, hickory, sycamore, walnut, and cypress trees. Deer were plentiful with turkey, ducks, geese and partridges. Prairie hens, woodcocks, snipes and squirrels were abundant. Panthers, wolves, black bears, wildcats and raccoons could easily be found. In this setting James Scott Finney developed his love of hunting with hounds. Hopkins County Texas was newly organized when the Finney family moved there and the county seat of Tarrant was just six years old. Only recently the county commissioners had put a law into effect to stop men from riding their horses across the gallery (porch) extending the length of the two story frame courthouse. Tarrant, Texas consisted of twelve or fifteen houses congregated on a large prairie which afforded excellent pasturage. The Finney family found wheat and grain could be grown with profit, but the cotton produced in Hopkins County was a shade inferior in quality, yielding about 350 pounds per acre. Francis E. Finney had just settled his family in Texas when the dark clouds of war that had been threatening the nation suddenly became a full fledged storm. Texas seceded from the Union in February, 1861 and immediately joined the Confederacy. By February 12th of that year, District Court in Hopkins County was recorded as District Court of the Confederate States of America. Usually, at Christmas, the slaves were given one week of rest. In 1861 a notice was printed in the local paper that slaves should not be allowed to go about in groups. It was suggested to each owner not to let them leave their homes enmass during the holidays, rather to alternate their leaves of absence, and to give them specific passes indicating where each might go and for how long. Town meetings were held throughout the county. The slave issue was foremost on the minds of the slave holders. Military drills were performed at Tarrant and other towns. During the drills, guns could clearly be heard. The anxiety and concern felt in the Finney home could not have been missed, even by four year old James S.. On May 2, 1861 Francis E. Finney obtained a commission to raise a company of men for the defense of Texas. The company was called the Hopkins Rifles. Francis E. Finney was given the rank of Captain in the county militia. In June he received, from General James H. Rogers of Jefferson, Texas, sixty muskets belonging to the Confederate States for use in Hopkins County. The national tempest swirled more furiously, and on January 20, 1862 Francis E. Finney enlisted in the regular Confederate Army at Sulphur Springs as a Private in Co. D, 32nd Regt of the Texas Cavalry. His wife gave birth to her second son and fourth child during that year. They named him Frank Richard Finney. Most of the slaves remained faithful to their masters, but with only the very young and very old males at home it was left up to the women to see that the farm chores were done. Laura must have felt a great burden, since her oldest son, James S., was only five. Her two oldest, Catherine, nine, and Lucy Ann, eight, may have had more than their share of responsibilities. Francis E. was captured by Federal forces, probably at the battle at Richmond, Kentucky, in which his unit took part. He was shortly paroled by the Yankees, after taking an oath not to fight against the Union. He returned to Sulphur Springs and reenlisted in the Confederate Army on October 20, 1862. Two months after the sixth birthday of James S., in December, 1863, his father returned home from the war a sick and broken man. Francis E., at age thirty received a medical discharge because of "Inflammation and disease developed into permanent disease by constant ill health and from continual exposure." He had been treated without benefit and was pronounced "Unfit for any service in any department." In 1864 Francis E. was named Captain of a patrol in the county to see that families of soldiers who had not returned from the war had the necessities such as salt and flour. Also in this year another daughter, Ellen, was added to the Finney family and they survived an outbreak of smallpox in the county. In 1865 the War Between the States was officially over. The Confederacy had been defeated. Many a soldier returned home to find he had to start all over again. Texas was still a fairly wealthy state compared to other southern states as she was not the scene of devastating battles as were other areas of the South. However, the Federal soldiers came, and following them came the hated, grasping carpetbaggers to dominate the people during reconstruction. One major change for the Finney family was the fact they no longer had slaves to help with work on their land. The young family, with no children old enough to plow and plant, had a vastly different lifestyle from what they had known in Alabama and in Texas before the war. In 1864 Francis E. Finney paid taxes on slaves with a value of $21,600.00. In 1865 he had nothing. When the slaves were set free no written records were kept of how many stayed on the farms of their former masters. A few slave owners offered land to some of their freed slaves on shares and many blacks kept their former master's name. This was the case on the Finney plantation. There were descendants of the Finney slaves, bearing the Finney name, living near Sulphur Springs one hundred years after the war. The affairs of the citizens of Hopkins County did not return to normal after the war, and through the impressionable years of James S. Finney's adolescence, he lived in a country of almost continual turmoil. A force of fourteen Federal soldiers arrived in Hopkins County in August, 1865 to ascertain the condition and temper of the citizens. Texas was under military rule and the hated carpetbaggers were given positions of authority in the county. There were Confederate men who refused to acknowledge the South had lost the war. There were vigilantes and much unrest. In August, 1868 Federal Troops were sent to Sulphur Springs in Hopkins County, where they erected a stockade which at times housed as many as two hundred soldiers. Their objective was to enforce the laws and catch some of the more bothersome vigilantes. To eleven year old James S., it must have been an exciting time watching the Yankee soldiers and hearing the resentment and frustration expressed by families whose loved ones had given so much, even their lives, in defeat. In 1868 another daughter, Mollie, was added to the Finney family. Francis E. Finney raised what crops he could, and supplemented the family larder by hunting the abundant wild game. He took up the trade of gunsmithing, and in the 1870s, after the period of Radical Reconstruction and military rule, he served two terms as Hopkins County Treasurer. We know nothing of the education young James S. received, but it must have been sufficient, for in his later years he was known to be a great reader and loved to discuss politics and religion. As James S. and his brother Frank grew to manhood, they were said to have operated a still near Sulphur Springs on the Jefferson Highway. Frank Finney became a Doctor and married a Hopkins County girl, Emma Bridges. Probably around 1875 James S. wandered westward into Texas and began working on cattle ranches and joined some of the great cattle drives into Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico and Colorado. How many times he went up the trail, and which of them he followed is unknown. He may have gone as a drover a few times, but we know he also went as a trail cook. Somewhere James S. learned he enjoyed cooking, and at some point in his life began cooking for ranches and became a chuck wagon cook on some of the long trail drives north. Did he learn his cooking skills from the black cooks the family had? This is certainly a possibility. One wonders just how and where he came to this occupation which would be a big part of his life for years to come. He was known to be a quiet, serious minded individual and may have had the right temperament to be a trail cook as described by one cowboy: "It takes a special talent to wrangle Dutch ovens and feed 15-20 men that eat like walruses at all hours of the day and night, right through wind, dirt, snow, cold, rain and mud. The cooks don't seem to need much sleep and they are also a cranky lot." It has been remembered by many that although the cowboys took their orders from the trail boss, the cook was the real keeper of the crew. Besides preparing three hot meals a day, he also served as doctor and barber. On starlit nights his last responsibility before turning in was to point the chuck wagon's tongue toward the North Star so the trail boss would have a sure compass heading the next morning. Of his years as a trail cook, James S. remembered the first time he drove cattle through Amarillo there wasn't anything there but "five kids," This may have been Ragtown, a collection of buffalo hide huts and tents that later became the nucleus of present day Amarillo. He said the next time they had a drive on that trail there were lots of people there. As far as trouble with the Indians on these trail drives, he only remembers that if the Indians felt they were being crowded too close they set fire to the prairie. The cowboys then set a back fire, and sometimes used wet toe sacks to contain the fire. The grass across these prairies was belly deep to a horse. One of the hazards of the cattle trail befell James S. when a rattlesnake bit him on the right hand. With medical help 200 miles away, he treated himself by cutting the finger, then sucking the poison out. The hand was held in a can of coal oil, the cowboy cure-all, for the next three days. He was deathly ill with fever, headaches and vomiting, and his entire arm was swollen. He recovered, though the third finger on his right hand was permanently bent at a 90 degree angle for the rest of his life. In 1888, when James S. was thirty-one years old, his father died in Sulphur Springs. There was still a ten-year-old daughter, Laura, and a thirteen-year- old son, John, at home. The widow, Laura T. Finney, took her youngest daughter to Wichita Falls and lived with a married daughter, Mollie Redmond. Young John went to live with a brother in "West Texas", and did not see his mother again for ten years. The brother he lived with may have been Frank, who had become a Doctor, or it may have been James S., who seems to have settled down somewhat about this time. The great era of cattle-driving across the Texas plains to Kansas railheads ended about 1890. The next thing we know of James S. Finney is when he married Adeline Jones, a second generation Texan, in Seymour in June, 1891. Adeline was attending college at Dallas when they married. He was thirty-three-years old and she was twenty-one. James S. was well acquainted with the area around Seymour, as the town was located at the site where the old Western Trail crossed the Brazos River. The streams of the Big Wichita and the Salt Fork of the Brazos River both ran near there, though the country was mostly scattered growths of mesquite. Adeline later told her children that James S. was a red-headed cowboy with a sorrel pony he sometimes hitched to a gig cart when he came courting. As he drove down the road his red beard would flow over his shoulder and the horses tail would reach back to his shoulder and you couldn't tell where one ended and the other began, as they were the same color. In March, 1892 their first child, a son, was born. They named him Francis, but he was always called Frank. Shortly after Frank's birth James S. went to work on the Waggoner Ranch. It may have been the Waggoners that he went up the trail with earlier, since Daniel and William Thomas Waggoner were from Hopkins County, and James S. was undoubtedly acquainted with them before he went west. The Waggoner Ranch in 1892 covered over one million acres in Foard, Knox, Baylor, Archer, Wilbarger and Wichita counties. Adeline told that she milked the cow morning and night at their home when Frank was young, and remembers that while she strained milk in the well house one morning she set baby Frank up on the table. While taking care of the milk she looked down to see a snake crawling up the table to get her warm, sweet milk. She grabbed Frank and ran. In 1893 James S. moved his family across the border into Oklahoma and made a claim on some land in the Indian Territory. In September of that year their second son was born, but lived only 13 days. Just one year later, a daughter, Lucy, was born in the Indian Territory and refers to her birthplace as Chickasaw. There is an extant deed showing that in 1894, J.S. Finney of Indian Territory, Oklahoma purchased two lots, for $150.00 cash, in Myrtle Springs, Van Zant County, Texas. His brother John went to Van Zant County about this time and the land purchase may have been for him. As far as is known James S. Finney never lived in that county. In February, 1897, another son was born to the couple. They named him James Nelson after his father and the family called him Jim. This son claimed his birthplace to be Durant, Oklahoma, which would have been in the Choctaw Nation. About this time James S. decided the land in Oklahoma was not productive, or it may have been that he was unable to get a clear title to the Indian land. For some reason, after four years in Oklahoma, the family returned to Texas and bought a quarter section in Baylor County for $300.00 cash. This land was about four miles north of Seymour. The oldest daughter, Lucy, says, "When we came back from Chickasaw to Baylor County, we lived in what we called the Peckerwood House. ...there had been so many hail storms that the roof was pecked full of holes. It leaked and Mama had to set drip buckets out. ...it was a little two room house with a shed room with a dirt floor in it. It seemed to me there was always storms and we had a dugout to get in when the wind and rain started. Papa watched the clouds [for tornadoes] and Mama put us kids all in one bed so she could get to us if he thought a storm was gonna hit. Mama would grab the baby, and Papa would grab the next ones and run for the cellar door. They had some boards put up with a mattress to lay the kids on." In September, 1898 Laura T. Finney, mother of James S., died near Wichita Falls, and in that same month another daughter, Inez, was born to James S. and Adeline. In August of this year J.S. Finney received what appears to be a franchise from the inventor of the New Miller Washing Machine. The owner and inventor, N.C. Baughman of York, Pennsylvania, granted J.S. Finney of Seymour, Texas the right to sell "for such price or prices as he may deem proper or that can be obtained" the New Miller Washing Machine, patented June 6, 1893. This franchise was for the counties of Cook, Montague, Clay, Wichita, Willbarger, Hardeman, Baylor, Jack, Young and Stephens, in the state of Texas. In a letter to J.S. Finney, Mr. Baughman says, "I trust you will push the business and make many sales." The outcome of this business venture is left to our imagination, for no further word exists. By 1900 the Finney family was living in Seymour, Texas. The U.S. Census for that year shows this household with four children and three boarders listed as day laborers, who were probably working for James S. on his farm. In 1901 and 1902 two more sons, Dave and Belton, were born just 18 months apart. The family moved west to Matador in Motley County. James S. was cook for the Matador Ranch and one of his favorite stories was of the meal he cooked for the owners of the Matador when they came from Scotland to view their holdings. The ladies ate and ate, then came to the kitchen to compliment the cook. They wanted to know what it was and how he prepared it. When he told them it was "Calf Fries", they were aghast and had some difficulty with that. Another of the family stories about the Matador, was of living in a half dugout and how in one memorable year they killed 36 rattlesnakes in their yard. In 1903-04 James S. and Adeline moved to Red Springs where they ran a way station for the stage line. Lucy remembers the family had "a house with two big rooms and a small room in the back, a well beside the house and an outhouse with a Sears Roebuck catalog for paper." Across the road from the Finney home was the one-room school house where Frank, Lucy and Jim went to school. Two more children were added to the family while they lived in Red Springs, J.Q. in 1906 and Mary Alta in 1908. James S. persisted in trying to grow cotton, and Lucy tells that each of the children had "so many rows of cotton to top because it got rank. We would take a knife and go along and whack it off to keep it from getting too tall." She remembers that the rows "must have been a half mile long." James S. cooked for camp meetings and revivals. Lucy says her mother put all the kids in the wagon and took them to Throckmorton or Shady where he was cooking, sometimes for two weeks at a time. Three or four times a year James S. bought fresh oysters in gallon buckets and fried oysters for family breakfast. Lucy says, "he cooked oysters till he got all the kids filled up." Every fall he made a chili supper for those who had picked cotton for him. He bought crackers in big square boxes like egg crates. Christmas was a special time for the children, though they did not receive toys or other frivolous items. There was a big wooden box with a lid kept in the back bedroom. The children were never allowed to look into it, for in this box James S. kept items of importance to him. Lucy remembers, "...Along about December we knew that was where our Christmas was. He always had it full of candy, apples, oranges and nuts." On Christmas morning James S. made a bowl of egg nog for everyone and Adeline made a big breakfast. Fruit salad with whipped cream was the treat of the day. Lucy says, "That was a novelty then, cause didn't everybody have fruit." Lucy remembers, "My Dad was as clean a man as I ever saw. Lots better than any of my brothers. He never came in the house with mud on his shoes and he never threw things around the house. He was always particular. He never used tobacco in any way." He did keep a bottle of whiskey in the house and had one toddy every night. The small bottle sat on the mantle in one of their homes and Lucy says, "You can be sure not one of my brothers dared to touch it." James S. kept hunting dogs, or wolf dogs, as Lucy called them. He and his boys hunted in the brakes between the Brazos and the Wichita Rivers. His son, J.Q., later claimed that if his Daddy was plowing and heard those dogs go, he would tie that team up and not be back for three days sometimes. He would stay with them as long as they ran. The children remember their Daddy as being quite strict and when he told them to do something, they knew he meant it. Lucy says, "We could get by on Mother, but not on him." Religion was important to James S.. Lucy and her Daddy were both converted the same night, when she was nine years old, making it about 1903. The family went to the Methodist Church in Red Springs and Lucy says, "Later they moved to Gilliland where he joined the Church of Christ." James S. was very concerned about the affairs of government, and his grandson, Richard Moore, remembers that he liked to talk politics and religion, but other than that he was a rather quiet man. He was conscientious about voting in all elections. At one time he subscribed to as many as twenty periodicals and newspapers, looking forward to the mail each day, and was a great supporter of the Farmer's Union in later years. All photos of James S. Finney show him with a full beard. He was quite proud of the length as it measured forty seven and one half inches at one time and extended to his boot tops. While working the beard was braided and tucked into his shirt front. In 1908 the oldest son, Frank, married Zera Stafford, and settled nearby. In 1910 the oldest daughter, Lucy, married A. Dave Moore. Lucy was only 15 years old, and needed the permission of her parents to marry, but was afraid to ask her Daddy, so talked to her Mother. Adeline advised Lucy to go talk to her Daddy, but when Lucy told of her fears, Adeline agreed to discuss it with James S.. Lucy says, "Mother knew he was too high tempered and me and him would go together." Adeline was a good advocate, and the father gave his permission and signed the papers for Lucy to marry. In 1915 James S. and Adeline had lived in Red Springs for over a decade, and he decided they should go west to prospect for unclaimed land to file on. They had been in Red Springs way too long. He was fifty-eight years old and Adeline was forty-seven. This urge to move resulted in a grand and glorious adventure for the whole family. The married children (Frank and Zera and Lucy and Dave)wanted to go also. Lucy's child would celebrate his first birthday on the trail. Adeline and James S. had seven-year-old Mary Alta, nine-year-old J.Q., thirteen-year- old Belton, fourteen-year-old Dave, and sixteen-year-old Inez. Young Jim, who was seventeen, had been working on the Circles Ranch on the Wichita River. He quit his job as wrangler and joined the wagon train. There were fifteen people, four covered wagons and a surrey with a fringe on top. James S. and Adeline had two wagons, Frank and Zera had a wagon as did Lucy and Dave (theirs had a spring seat in front). The wagons were each pulled by four mules. Adeline drove her surrey powered by two horses. There were two saddle horses and James S. took his hound dogs. Ten gallon kegs were tied on the side of each wagon for drinking and cooking water. Supplies of wheat, lard, sugar, and other necessities were loaded into the wagons along with a big box of home cured meat. Three of the wagons had a chuckbox on the back where the lid let down to use as a table for cooking. Everyone had their job when the little caravan stopped for the night. Dave (Moore) and the young Finney boys were responsible for feeding and watering the horses and mules. James S. started the campfire and prepared the Dutch ovens for biscuits, or what ever was to be cooked. He had a long rod to lift the lids with and he tended all three ovens while they cooked. Once, somewhere along the way, James S. bought a kid goat and they all enjoyed fried goat steak and biscuits that raised nearly to the top of the Dutch ovens. They bought milk and eggs at ranches on the trail. At one place they paid a quarter for three dozen eggs and another time paid five cents a dozen. James S. and Adeline had some bedsprings they put on the ground each night to lay their bed rolls on. The other couples slept in their wagons. At Elida, N.M. they made an extended stop and looked at the land available for homesteading near there. The wagons were circled and a wagon tarp stretched over the middle. Adeline's fifty gallon wash pot was filled with warm water and everyone had a bath, then clothes were washed and hung on bushes to dry. It took one whole day to cross the Pecos River in New Mexico. They got there when it was on the rise and men who lived on the other side of the river came on horseback to help with the crossing. The wagon loads were lightened and with four mules pulling they still bogged in the quick sand in mid stream. The men jumped in and put ropes on the wheels pulling with their horses to get the mules going again. Lucy says, "We made 40 trips getting our stuff across little by little." James S. had been through much of this country in his younger years and so knew about where they would find water. They only had to make one dry camp. Arriving in Magdalena, N.M., James S. replenished their supplies and they traveled on to Datil, which was another day's journey. There was a friend who lived in Datil and the group went to his place. The friend, Mr. Minick, had a big dug out built in the side of a mountain and they stayed in that for a week or so while deciding what to do next. The young Finney boys were not in any hurry about making a decision. They explored the country round about and one night were so late coming back that their Daddy built a big fire and blew on his dog horn to guide them in to camp. There was talk of going on to Globe, Arizona where they had heard about the mining, but somehow, after a week in Datil, all decided to head back to Texas, as no other place seemed to please them. They separated at Ima, New Mexico with Dave and Lucy going to Plainview, Texas while Frank and his family accompanied the older couple on towards Colorado, and then they split up, with James S. and Adeline going to Pampa, Texas while Frank went on to Steam Boat Springs, Colorado. Young Jim Finney stayed in New Mexico where he found employment as a wrangler on the Bell Ranch. This adventure lasted about three months. Lucy says, "We never found the pot of gold, but did we ever have good times!" James S. and Adeline now settled in White Flats, Texas which was originally a line camp on the Matador Ranch. Seven years later, in 1922, they rented a place in the Plainview area and Lucy says, "they made a crop that year and sold it for a good price before they even harvested it. They went to Kress in Swisher County and bought that nice little home that they lived in all the rest of their days." In 1936, after fourteen years in their home at Kress, Adeline died at age sixty-seven, following a few weeks illness while staying at the home of her daughter, Mary Alta Scott, in Plainview. She was buried in the Runningwater Cemetery west of Plainview in Hale Co. James S. Finney was seventy-nine when his wife died, and he spent some time in the home of several of his children during the next few years. He stayed at Dawn, Texas with Lucy for awhile, and spent some time in the home of his son Belton, but seems to have lived with his son J.Q. longer than any of them. J.Q.'s children remember him living in their home, and we have several pictures of Granddaddy Finney with J.Q., Jr., or Jake, and Narcia. Narcia, who would have been about seven or eight years old, remembers Granddaddy singing an Irish Lullaby to her, and Jake, who was five or six, was the one who listened to Granddaddy’s stories. He became Granddaddy’s buddy. In these last years, James S. liked to tell stories about his early life and the time spent on the cattle trails. No one had time to listen to him, but little Jake. Soon Jake had heard the stories so many times he could quote his Granddaddy verbatim, and if Granddaddy was distracted and forgot where he was in the story telling, Jake could always tell him just what came next. One of Jakes memories of this time was this little story: "Granddaddy never stepped over a nail. He always had a pocket full of bent, rusty nails or stray washers. We built a dog house one time. He fixed me an old one claw hammer that we found....put a handle in it....then he rigged me up an old saw we found in the road. It was all bent up, but we straightened that thing out. It didn't saw too good....had a few kinks. They had built an overpass here in town and my Daddy [J.Q.] traded a hog for the scraps. Me and Granddaddy built that dog house out of some of those scraps. We straightened rusty nails and used that old hammer and saw." As they watched the farmers plow ever larger fields, Granddaddy told Jake, "In this country the cows make the wood and the wind makes the water." Jake also says, "Granddaddy never was seen to take more than two drinks of whiskey a day all during his life, but he always had those two drinks. During prohibition he had a prescription for the stuff for his health. After he came to live with us, he and my Mother sure had trouble over that. She didn't like it. After he died I found a bottle of Jack Daniels under the stanchion in the milk barn." Granddaddy always wanted to go back to his home in Kress, so in late 1938 Dave and Lucy bought the old home place and moved there. He came to live with them and enjoyed sitting on the porch and rocking in his chair. Each morning, for as long as he was able, he walked to the post office in Kress and back with the mail. Soon his eyesight failed and a stroke paralyzed his left side. Another stroke caused his death on August 27, 1940 at the age of 82. He was buried beside Addie in the Runningwater Cemetery, and another piece of history slipped away. Sources used in compiling history of James S. Finney: Interviews (or visits) conducted over the years, 1955-1992 with: James Nelson Finney, Show Low, Arizona Jake Finney, Plainview, Texas Narcia Finney Messenger, Muleshoe, Texas Richard Ollie Moore, San Antonio, Texas Lucy Finney Moore, (letters and telephone visits) Kress, Texas and Hereford, Texas. (Last contact was in 1983) TAPED INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY LINDA CAROLE TOOLEY COMBS WITH: Lucy Finney Moore and A. Dave Moore, 1977-78 DEEDS AND FRANCHISE CONTRACT IN POSSESSION OF: Narcia Finney Messenger, Muleshoe, Texas, (1993) PRINTED SOURCES FOR BACKGROUND MATERIAL OBTAINED FROM: CIVIL WAR SHADOWS IN HOPKINS COUNTY TEXAS, by June Tuck, 1993 HANDBOOK OF TEXAS, Vols.1 & 2, Walter Prescott Webb, ed. (1952) TRAIL DRIVERS OF TEXAS, By Marvin J. Hunter, 1924, (Reprint 1985) FOR CENSUS RECORDS, WAR RECORDS AND OTHER SOURCES OF FINNEY HISTORY SEE: TEN SOUTHERN FAMILIES, by Jo Ann Finney Hatch, (1986) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/shelby/bios/finney823gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 31.5 Kb