Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Richard P. FINK

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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RICHARD P. FINK - born April 22, 1823, in Monroe County, (now) West Virginia, 
has been a resident of Greenbrier County since he was twenty-six years of age. 
In this county, August 26, 1850, he married Rebecca F. McCOY, and their 
children are recorded: Mary A., born August 4, 1852, died May 8, 1882; 
Alfred D., April 1, 1855, lives in Ohio; George H., December 13, 1857, 
and Sarah E., July 4, 1859, live in this county; John H., July 4, 1861, 
lives in Fayette County, Ohio; Peter H., March 13, 1864; Hettie A., 
July 4, 1867; Catharine L., October 1, 1869, live at home. The
wife of Mr. FINK was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, and her parents were 
both natives of that county, Edmund and Mary (WILSON) McCOY. Her mother died 
in 1844, her father came to Greenbrier County in 1847, and died in this 
county in 1867. Jasper FINK, father of Richard P., was born in Pennsylvania, 
was a soldier under Colonel Burns in the war of 1812, and died in 1853. The 
mother of Richard P., Catharine MILLER her name before marriage, was born in 
Rockbridge County, Virginia, in 1776, and she died in 1864. Richard P. FINK
was member of Company B, 22d Virginia Infantry, in the civil war, and served 
the Confederacy on the fields of Dry Creek, Droop Mountain, New Market, and 
through the valley of Virginia. He was wounded in the right arm at New Market, 
he follows the occupation of miller at Blakers mill, near the junction of Muddy 
and Mill creeks, and has recently purchased 441/4 acres in Lewisburg district. 
The mill is in Blue Sulphur district. His post office address is Alderson, 
Monroe County, West Virginia.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.