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Lynn Beatty klbeatty@npgcable.com January 21, 2007, 9:31 am

      In Western Penna Hist Magazine for July 1928 page 199 is noted a gift to 
the Society No 435 by Omer S. Decker of a book of old clippings giving much 
Historical data in the History of Ashland Co, O by H.S. Knapp Phila 1863.  We 
find the following references:
Page 279
Robert Finley was the second settler in Vermilion Tp where he settled early in 
Apr 1811 & settled on NE 1/4 of section 12 on which farm he died on July 4, 
1825 aged 65 years born say 1760.
At the time the book was written his son Eli was the oldest settler of the Tp 
& whose marriage was the second one solemnized in the Tp & in Jany 1862 he was 
the only surviving member of his father's family.

Page 409 412
Alexander Finley, brother of Robert above removed from the place now occupied 
by the own of Mt Vernon, Knox Co, O to the farm on which Tylertown (Lake Fort 
P.O.) is now 1862 located Apr 17, 1809.  His family then consisted of his wife 
& the following children: James, Benjamin, John & Hannah.  At the time of his 
settlement there in 1809, himself & family were the only white inhabitants in 
what now 1862 constitutes the county of Ashland, O. At this time, there was 
only one family in the town of Wooster, Wayne Co, O his nearest neighbor.  The 
head of this family was Benjamin Miller (whose wife was I think the sister of 
Augustus Markle's 1827 1928 father George). William & Joseph Larwill were then 
young men & boarded in the Miller family.  Alexander Finley died Dec 1825 aged 
55 years.  Make slips for Ashland & Wooster.


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Extracted from Josiah V. Thompson Journals

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