Medina County OhArchives Obituaries.....Phinney, Caroline August 6, 1934
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David Holcomb david@holcombs.net November 9, 2006, 1:06 pm

unknown clipping believed to be Medina County Gazette
Mrs. Caroline Phinney
Funeral services for Caroline Rowe Phinney were held Thursday, Aug. 9, 
conducted by Rev. George Bates, at the Waite funeral parlors in Medina.  Mrs. 
Phinney died Aug. 6, at the  home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Shaw, 2758 West 
16th street, Cleveland, after a few days' illness.  She suffered a stroke 
which proved fatal.
	Had she lived one day more she would have been 89 years old.  The last 
nine years of her life were chiefly spent with her daughter, Elsie, with 
frequent visits with her grandson, Carl Phinney, and friends from Medina.
	At an early age she associated herself with the Baptist church and 
spent he entire life a Christian, believing in God and His teachings.  Her 
greatest comfort was found in reading the Bible.
	Caroline Rowe Phinney was born in Vevay, Switzerland county, Indiana 
on Aug. 7, 1845, the only child of William M. and Mary Ann Cole Rowe.  Being 
left and orphan in infancy, at the age of seven years, she came to Ohio and 
lived with the family of John Jacobs, in Lafayette.  Oct. 22, 1865, she was 
married to Laung(sic) H. Phinney, who died April 4, 1915.  To this union two 
children were born, a daughter and a son.  Mrs. Elsie Shaw and Irwin, who died 
at the age of 50 years.  There are three grandchildren, Evelyn Shaw and Mrs. 
Mildred Holcomb, of Cleveland, and Carl Phinney, of Medina, and three great-
grandchildren.

Additional Comments:
It should be noted that in her obituary of 1934 Row is spelled with an e.  It 
is believed that she passed this spelling on to her children as being 
correct.  In 2000, the family gained access to her parents hand written 
Marriage Liscense on which the name is spelled Row, without the e.  In the 
19th century it was common place for the same name to be spelled differant 
ways and for families to spell the same name differantly.

Caroline was living with John Jacob and his wife, Margaret in the 1860 census 
of Medina

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