Hi Dusti, Oh my Gosh ! I don't know if I can take this . :) Thank you so very much. I'm on the search now...I sure didn't know or even think of other places in IN. for them to be. Thank you...Thank you...Thanks you Dusti ! You are a great one . I just hope this is MY Elnora...hope...hope....hope I do. Marcie in IN. NOW on the search for sure. :) -----Original Message----- From: DustiGen@aol.com <DustiGen@aol.com> To: FINK-L@rootsweb.com <FINK-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, June 03, 2000 11:09 PM Subject: [FINK] Elnora FINK >Marcie, > >Jacob FINK (b. 7 Aug 1819) whose marriage on 10 Aug 1843 to Catharine WOOLEY >(b. about 30 Oct 1821 daughter of Hugh WOOLEY and his wife Hannah) is >recorded in Marion County, OH. > >1850 Census, Van Buren Twp, Pulaski Co., IN >Jacob Fink, 29, Value of Real Estate $600, bp: PA >Catharine Fink, 27, bp: NY >Mary Emily Fink, 6, bp: OH >Maria Louisa Fink, 4, bp: OH >Minerva Elnora Fink, 3, bp: OH >Sarah Alice Fink, 1, bp: IN > >Another child was born: Jacob Alonzo Fink c Dec 1851 although referred to as >Jacob Lorenzo Fink in the guardianship files of the heirs of Jacob Fink. > >Catharine WOOLEY Fink died 23 December 1851 [I'd guess from child birth] and >is buried in the WOOLEY plot in the Kline Cemetery, Royal Center, Boone >Township, Cass County, Indiana. > >Jacob FINK then married on 28 March 1852 Mary SKILLEN (b 16 Dec 1827 in OH) >the widow of Jacob STRALHEIM and the daughter of Benjamin C. SKILLEN. After >all, Jacob did have a house full of children, one of which was a three month >old baby. The 1850 Census Record for Van Buren Township, Pulaski County, >Indiana, show the Benjamin SKILLEN, Jacob STRALHEIM, and Jacob FINK on >neighboring farms in the order I have listed them. I also found land records >in Indiana that indicate both Benjamin SKILLEN and Jacob STRALHEIM migrated >from Shelby County, Ohio. > >To Jacob FINK and Mary SKILLEN were born: >Florence C. FINK b. c. 24 August 1853 [death record says 1854] >Sarah Lavina FINK, b. c. 21 January 1855 >Eli W. Fink, b. 6 Nov. 1856 > >Jacob FINK died 4 May 1856 [two days after consulting two doctors in >Logansport, Indiana, regarding himself and the children as reflected by >receipts in the Probate Record of Jacob FINK, who died intestate]. It was >the receipt in the Probate Record for Jacob's tombstone that gave me Jacob's >birth and death dates [as well as Catharine's death date which was written in >pencil on the back of the receipt and too light to Xerox] with the >instructions to deliver the tombstone to Logansport. Jacob is buried in the >WOOLEY plot with Catharine; and Mary was pregnant with Eli. > >According to the Guardianship Records in Pulaski County, Indiana, the FINK >children from the marriage with Catharine were either indentured or >apprenticed. Elnora might have had it a bit easier than her siblings as she >was indentured to Van BURTON of Pulaski County. Van's wife Abigail was a >sister of Catharine's. The reference to Elnora in the report to the Court in >May 1860 by the children's guardian [William S. SPENCER] is the only one that >DOES NOT say how old she is nor the age she is to be freed of the indenture. > > >William SPENCER was a Farmer (rather wealthy in land and personal property -- >according to the Census Records) in Boone Township, Cass County, Indiana. I >had come across his name many times before in estate records of various >relatives of mine; he managed to get himself appointed to be Administrator of >the Estates of men like Jacob FINK who died intestate. The Final Accounting >always read the same. After the listing of the personal property of the >deceased which included, i.e., the chickens, two milk cows, one hog, one >bedstead, 4 comforters, one table and five chairs, dishes, pans, chamber pot, >laundry tub, etc., "the widow waives her right to the personal property of >the deceased in order to pay my administration fees of the Estate of . . ." > As you can see, everything she needed to survive was taken and she "did not >have a pot to . . . in". > >The Widow FINK had had dealings with Mr. SPENCER before with regard to Jacob >STRALHEIM's estate. However, Mr. SPENCER did not have as free a hand in that >matter; he was one of five men appointed as administrator AND one of the >other four was Mary's father. Mary was a little older, and I'm sure had >observed Mr. SPENCER's dealings. On 3 February 1858, the Widow FINK married >William S. SPENCER; I believe to preserve her children's inheritance. > >I don't believe (although, I can't recall for certain) that Elnora FINK >married in Cass County, Indiana. You might check the marriage records for >Pulaski County. If you don't find her there, try White County; that area of >Pulaski County is close enough to White. > >Oh yes, Florence FINK is my great-grandmother. It was thru the Funeral Home >Extracts of Cass County that I discovered her parentage and Mary SKILLEN's >marriages. > >BTW, where are you in Indiana? > >Dusti (misplaced Hoosier in Boston Mass) > > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >