Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485323813:1030:191555462
• _FSFTID: L4J8-VWR
• _UID: 59437DF9A11D41A1AADA8441A8B1986B57E7
• Census: 29 Aug 1850, Miller Township, Knox, Ohio, United States
• Census: 24 Jul 1860, Miller Township, Knox, Ohio, United States
• Census: 12 Aug 1870, Piper City, Ford, Illinois, United States
• Census: 5 Jun 1880, Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, United States
• Census: 12 Jun 1900, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States; Address:
  8th Civil District
• Misc: 2 Feb 1905, Tennessee, United States; applied for Civl War widow's pension
• Census: 16 Apr 1910, Lawrenceburg, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States; Address:
  N. Military St.

Notes:

Census:
Neither of her parents were foreign born.

Census:
Both parents born in Ohio as well

Census:
Born in Ohio, father in New York, mother in Ohio. 4 children, all living.

Misc:
Application 821271
Certificate 596921

Census:
Listed as a widow, 4 children, 3 living, she and her parents born in Ohio

Rachel married Matthew Miller Finney on 17 Sep 1867 in Knox, Ohio, United States. Matthew (son of Thomas Finney and Jane Miller) was born in Mar 1843 in Ohio, United States; died in 1904 in Lawrenceburg, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States; was buried in Lawrenceburg, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485323817:1030:191555462
• _UID: E4A8A6C2FDDC4F67AF123B6D666BE0DC79F9
• Census: 12 Aug 1870, Piper City, Ford, Illinois, United States
• Census: 5 Jun 1880, Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, United States

Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485322013:1030:191555462
• _FSFTID: G3ZS-MJD
• _UID: 22478A6137854606857E3A5D3A7F367C6113
• Census: 5 Jun 1880, Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, United States
• Census: 11 Jun 1900, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States; Address:
  8th Civil District
• Occupation: 11 Jun 1900, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States; Lawyer

Notes:

It is easy to be sure that William K. Finney is Thomas Dunn Finney's father. good records show this.

It is also easy to track the fact that William Finney and Matthew Finney are the only Finney families in Lawrence County by 1890. And it is easy to find William in the family with Matthew and Rachel Stevens Finney prior to moving to Tennessee.

So, I am confident in the line from Thomas D. Finney to William & Mamie and then to Matthew & Rachel

Birth:
Parents both born in Ohio as well

Likely born March 1872, Miller Twp, Knox County, Ohio

William married Mary Elizabeth Dunn on 1 Apr 1896 in Lawrenceburg, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States. Mary (daughter of Thomas Dunn and Sarah T. Sykes) was born in Dec 1875 in Tennessee, United States; died in 1965; was buried in Lawrenceburg, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485323814:1030:191555462
• _FSFTID: LDVY-7VZ
• _UID: 384FD3DFBFFD4FC8ACA6EB79C577AF33E0C2
• Census: 5 Jun 1880, Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, United States
• Census: 12 Jun 1900, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States; Address:
  8th Civil District

Notes:

Birth:
1880 census says she was 4 years old.
1900 census says she was born Oct 1873.
Not found in birth registry for Knox or Pickaway counties

Census:
2 children, one living, one dead. But only married for 1 year. to a minister

Anna married Richard M. Faubion in 1898 in Lawrence, Tennessee, United States. Richard was born in Mar 1870 in Tennessee, United States; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485323816:1030:191555462
• _UID: A84C4AC843894C868AFBD9D3260CD784622D
• Census: 12 Jun 1900, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States; Address:
  8th Civil District

Notes:

Birth:
Not found in birth registry for Knox or Pickaway counties
But parents purchased property in Harrison Twp shortly before his birth

Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485316841:1030:191555462
• _FSFTID: L5NQ-KJV
• _UID: 8D101EFDE63046988E7A217EE62A5F24E623
• Census: 11 Jun 1900, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States; Address:
  8th Civil District
• Census: 21 Apr 1910, Lawrenceburg, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States; Address:
  Waterloo St.
• Military: 1918, Kansas, United States; listed in records of Camp Funston; Address:
  Camp Funston
• Military: 12 Sep 1918, Lawrenceburg, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States; registered for WWI draft
• Military: 11 Oct 1918, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States; draffed for military service; Address:
  Vanderbilt University
• Census: 4 Apr 1930, Idabel, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States; Address:
  South Central Ave
• Residence: 1 Apr 1935, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States
• Occupation: 1938, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States; assistant State Attorney General
• Residence: 1938, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States; Address:
  1917 NW 23rd
• Census: 8 May 1940, White Township, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States
• Elected: 22 Dec 1942, Idabel, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States; State Senator, 24th district, Oklahoma State Senate, 19th Senate Session in a special election to fill an unexpired term
• Elected: Nov 1944, Idabel, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States; State Senator, 24th district, Oklahoma State Senate, 20th Senate Session
• Elected: Nov 1946, Idabel, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States; State Senator, 24th district, Oklahoma State Senate, 21th Senate Session

Notes:

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DEATH: Noted in Daily Oklahoman, 16 Jun 1968, Tom Finney, 69, longtimeattorney, state majority leader, rites on Sunday.

Census:
Listed as Thomas M Finney, but the family is next door to the Dunn family

Census:
In the 1910 census, Thomas is enumerated in his grandmother's home (his mother's mother) along with his mother. Both the father and the grandfather have died. Also present is an aunt and her family.

Census lists his father as from Indiana rather than Ohio.

Military:
Thomas D Finney (2229652), Pvt, Co I, 28th Inf, July 21, 18

Residence:
Rural McCurtain County

Died:
Death certificate says 14 Jun 1968. Elsewhere, I have seen 16 Jun 1968.

Buried:
Neither Tom nor Bettie is buried in Idabel, Oklahoma, even though they have a stone there.. Tom is buried with his parents in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Bettie was cremated and the cremains are the possession of her granddaughter, Susan Finney McKinney.

Remains were released to a funeral home in Idabel, however, for burial.

FINDAGRAVE: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=23664563

Thomas married Bettie Higgs on 15 Mar 1924 in Idabel, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States. Bettie (daughter of John William Higgs and Eliza Johnson (Lida) Cason) was born on 24 Nov 1903 in De Queen, Sevier, Arkansas, United States; died on 25 May 2000 in Edmond, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States; was buried in Idabel, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485323821:1030:191555462
• _UID: CA97DA95F2A845F0BD8684CB1EF3A5331A17
• Census: 12 Jun 1900, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States; Address:
  8th Civil District

Notes:

Birth:
Census, taken in Jun 1900, lists her birth as October 1900, age 0. But must be 1899.

Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485316851:1030:191555462
• _UID: 44841F238E334BA38AEEAFD06D5B3C9E52CE
• Census: 4 Apr 1930, Idabel, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States; Address:
  South Central Ave
• Residence: 1 Apr 1935, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States
• Census: 8 May 1940, White Township, McCurtain, Oklahoma, United States
• Residence: 1960, Bethesda, Montgomery, Maryland, United States; Address:
  5608 Brite Dr

Notes:

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Residence:
Rural McCurtain County

Died:
Thomas D. Finney Jr., 52, a Washington lawyer who had been associated with a number of top political figures, died Monday at his home in Bethesda.

He suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

He was a member of the prestigious law firm of Clifford, Glass, McIlwain and Finney, which he had joined in 1963. He had not practiced law actively, however, for the last eight months.

Mr. Finney came to Washington in 1957 as administrative assistant to Sen. A.S. Mike Monroney (D-Okia.), remaining in that position until 1963.

He built a reputation as a politician and legislative strategists, and during this period was a major author of the Federal Aviation Act.

In 1960, Mr. Finney worked with Adlai E. Stevenson and organized the remarkable gallery demonstration for Stevenson at the Democratic convention that year.Later, the victor, President John F. Kennedy, borrowed Mr. Finney to work on the Trade Expansion Act, which Mr. Kennedy considered one of his most outstanding achievements. Mr. Finney advised the president as a member of his Task Force on Foreign Policy, as deputy special assistant to the president for Foreign Trade Policy and as director of congressional liaison for the Trade Expansion Act.

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Mr. Finney to go to Mississippi with Allen Dulles when disorders develop there involving the registration of black voters.

Mr. Finney recommended the FBI agents be sent to the rural counties of Mississippi to monitor the registration. That same year he was special counsel to the credentials committee at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City.

Mr. Finney was credited with being among the key figures who helped solve the politically explosive dispute over which a delegation from Mississippi would be recognized.

In 1968, Mr. Finney took a leave of absence from his law firm to work in the presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy. He was considered to have the most political expertise in the organization.

Mr. Finney directed McCarthy's primary victory over Robert Kennedy in Oregon, visited the Kennedy family when Robert Kennedy was assassinated and remained the McCarthy liaison with Kennedy's followers.

Born in Idabel, Okla., Mr. Finney served as a Navy officer toward the end of World War II and then earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Oklahoma where he received a law degree in 1948.

He practised in Idabel for three years with his father, the late Thomas D. Finney, a pioneer trial lawyer. He then served with the Central Intelligence Agency in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 1952 to 1955.

Before joining Sen. Monroney in Washington, Mr. Finney was in private law practise in Oklahoma City.

He was a director of Continental Airlines and general counsel to the Proprietary Association. He was a trustee of the Citizens' Research Foundation.

Mr. Finney was a member of the American, Oklahoma, D.C. and Federal Bar associations, the American Judicature Society, Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, the National Lawyers Club and the Federal City Club.

He is survived by his wife, Sally Van Horn Finney, daughters, Susan Ford of Oklahoma City, and the Rev. Kathleen Finney, of Roanoke.; Va.; his mother, Bettie Higgs Finney, of Idabel, and two grandchildren.

The family suggests that expressions of sympathy be in the form of contributions to the Washington Hospice Society or the Thomas D. Finney Memorial Fund at Washington Cathedral.

Family/Spouse: Sally Van Horn. Sally (daughter of Walker William Van Horn and Dorothy Daisy Deuel) was born on 22 Mar 1924; died on 3 Jun 1984 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States; was buried in 1984 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Susan married Richard Carey Ford [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Steve McKinney. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485316835:1030:191555462
• _UID: 4C0DD0B8FA62478F8FFE5BBED37C00B2BAAA

Kathleen married Ralph Andrew Jaxtheimer [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Leon Johnson, Jr.. Robert (son of Robert Leon Johnson and Loralee) was born on 6 Nov 1930 in Lake Wales, Polk, Florida; died on 26 Dec 2021 in Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Deirdre married Jennifer Finney-Boylan [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Natalie Michelle Williams [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Kelly Ann Arbosheski [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Donna Marie Warndof [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jessica Byrne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Nicole Desjarlais. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]