Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Finch, George 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Finch, George (deceased), who for many years was a substantial agriculturalist 
of Grundy County, was born in Kent, England, in January, 1823, a son of 
Gabriel and Susanna (Goldin) Finch, both of whom died in England.  In 1852 
George Finch came to the United States, and after a few years spent in New 
York State, went to La Salle County, Ill., where he bought a farm and lived 
for five years, but then sold it and purchased 200 acres of land one and one-
half miles northeast of Verona.  The farm was all prairie land, but he 
improved it and made it a valuable property.  In 1891 he moved to Verona, 
where he died June 9, 1894, his widow surviving him, makes her home at Verona.

On May 25, 1859, Mr. Finch was married in La Salle County to Martha Rumney, 
born in Kent, England, a daughter of James and Mary (Winch) Rumney, who in 
1830 came to New York State, when Mrs. Finch was about fourteen years old.  
Later they moved to La Salle County where he died about 1854, the mother 
surviving him until 1885, when she passed away at the home of Mr. Finch.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Finch had the following children:  Mary, who is Mrs. George Ward of 
Woodson County, Kas.; Louisa, who is Mrs. Samuel Ward of Vienna Township; 
Ellen, who is Mrs. George Bettie of Sumner, Neb.; George, who died in 1897, 
leaving a wife and two children, Pearl and Iva; William, who is at home; 
Frederick, who is also on the home farm; Martha, who married John Petrie of 
Verona, died in 1907, leaving two children, Bertha and Martha; Esther, who is 
the widow of John McCormick of Verona; Clara, who resides with her widowed 
mother; and John, who is of Vienna Township.  Mrs. Finch is a member of the 
Baptist Church and takes a great pleasure in her religious connections.  Mr. 
Finch was a Republican and served as a school director.  He was a man of high 
principles and lived up to what he believed was right upon all occasions.

pages 809-810

Additional Comments:
Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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