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Author: oldie62
Surnames: Finkle, Hartig, Christy, Woods, Shanhulser
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The Warren Tribune, Friday, August 26, 1904
Mrs. David Finkle
Passed Into the Great Beyond Saturday Morning.
Had Lived Here 50 Years
Was Held In High Esteem by All Who Knew Her.
Warren lost one of its oldest and most respected citizens on Saturday morning when death
claimed the spirit of Mrs. David Finkle. For over fifty years she and her husband have
lived in this city. They are probably as well known as any other residents of this part
of the county, and there are none who stand higher in the estimation of the people than
they.
Several months ago Mr. Finkle was taken with an attack of senile pneumonia and for a few
weeks recently she was thought to be recovering, but she had been too much weakened by the
disease to make recovery possible and death ended her sufferings a few minutes past one
o'clock Saturday morning on the seventy-sixth anniversary of her birth.
Mary J., daughter of Charles and Mary Hartig, was born in Switzerland, August 20, 1828.
When she was about one year old her parents came to America and settled in Philadelphia
where three years later Charles Hartig died and his widow afterwards married Henry
Shanhulser, a blacksmith, who brought his wife and her child to Dayton, Ohio, where the
family resided until the girl was fifteen years old when they came to Grant county and
settled in the wilderness near the present village of Landesville. Here the girl assisted
in the hard labor of clearing up a farm and as she was constitutionally very robust she
had no small part in the hard work of the pioneer family.
She was united marriage to David Finkle January 14, 1847. The young people began
housekeeping near Mt. Etna where Mr. Finkle owned and operated a grist mill. Three years
later they moved to Warren and excepting an interval of a few years when Mr. Finkle
operated a mill at Marion, they have been residents of this city ever since.
To Mr. and Mrs. Finkle were born twelve children, of whom six have died. Those living are
four sons--Henry, Jacob, John and Sylvanus, and two daughters--Mrs. James C. Christy, of
this city, and Mrs. Alonzo Woods, of Harlansburg.
the funeral was held from the residence Monday afternoon, Rev. J. M. Haines being in
charge. The burial was at the Mitchell cemetery. The respect in which the deceased was
held by the citizens of the town was shown by the closing of all the business houses
during the funeral hour.
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