This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4g.2ADE/264.628.630.639.642.3.1.2.2.1.1.2 Message Board Post: I am cc'ing Helene Kline Mooty who compiled a book, "The Descendants and Ancestors of Andrew Wellington Fink & Susan Henrietta Beadle". She is the expert so I'll put down what I have from her book and work and she can correct anything I have wrong or that is incomplete. Helene and I are Fink second cousins. Andrew Wellington Fink bn 18 Dec 1845 Maquon, Knox, IL to Elijah and Katherine/Catherine (Townsend) Fink. Is there another Andrew W Fink who was the son of Josiah and Polly Eaton Fink bn 1838? What sources name an Andrew W Fink as a child of Josiah and Polly? The basis we have for determining that Andrew W. Fink's, bn 1845, parents were Elijah and Catherine/Katherine: 1. Helene found an obituary for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Fink Morse in her grandmother's papers. Upon this newspaper clipping, Fannie Fink Kline had written: "A.W. Fink's sister". Fannie Fink Kline is a dtr of A.W. and Susan Henrietta Fink. 2. In the "Portrait & Biographical Album of Knox County IL" 1886, the portrait of William E. Morse says that he married Miss Mary E Fink, daughter of Elijah and Catherine (Townsend) Fink in 1860. 3. Catherine Fink remarried W.E. Morse's father, Eusebias Morse, after Elijah Fink died between 1845 and 1850. Catherine and Eusebias were married 31 Oct 1850; per Knox Co ILL marriage records. 4. Andrew Wellington Fink married Susan Henrietta Beadle married 30 Jan 1868; that from Knox Co IL marriage records. Susan Henrietta's maiden name being Beadle comes from her death certificate, her parents raised one of her dtrs,, she had an unmarried sister who visited; it is well established that her maiden name was Beadle. 5. A cousin in California wrote to Fannie Fink Kline and sent two letters to her that A.W. Fink had written when he served in the Civil War. This cousin's death cert. names I.P. Fink as her father. We believe that to be Ira Pearsal Fink, and believe him to be an older brother to A.W. I am very interested in learning about your Andrew W. Fink and the sources you have for him. Do you know anything about a Nelson Fink or an Abram Fink? Our Finks are related. Ours are Christian & Elizabeth (Suts) Fink, Andrew C. & Maria (Sutz) Fink, Elijah & Catherine (Townsend) Fink, then Andrew W. and Susan Henrietta (Beadle) Fink. Do you know who our 1st common Fink ancestor might be? Thank you for any answers you can give. Marie Peer