b. 28 Dec 1879; Bodega, Sonoma Co, CA
d. about 1880
Daughter of Samuel Emanuel Finley and Mary Jane Stanley
Source: Friends of Spring Hill Oct 2011
Finley Family Plot (Map site #95)
b. 7/4/1876
d. 9/26/1877
Age 1y 4m 22d
Daughter of Samuel Emanuel Finley and Mary Jane Stanley
Source: 1934 DAR list-- as Eva G
Listed as Eva C. in the Index to Sonoma County (California) Cemetery Records 1846-1921, Third Edition, Sonoma County Genealogical Society.
Eva's parents, Samuel Emanuel and Mary Jane (Stanley) Finley are not buried at Spring Hill.
Finley Family Grouping:
Finley Family Plot (Map site #92)
d. 4/18/1918
Source: 1934 DAR list
Stone reads:
Aged 66 YEARS
Our brother's blest
who is
at rest
with Christ forever
Finley Family Plot (Map site #93)
1862 - 1918
Son of John and Keziah Finley
Source: 1934 DAR list
Finley Family Plot (Map site #99)
b. 6/5/1823 Orange Co. IN
d. 11/29/1910 Sonoma
Co. CA
The word "Father" on top of the marker.
Husband of Keziah (Head) Finley..
Source: 1934 DAR list
A photo album for the family of John and Keziah Finley can be reached here.
Finley Family Plot (Map site #91)
5/30/1850
3/19/1931
Age 82y 9m 20d
Son of John and Keziah Finley
Source: Index to Sonoma County (California) Cemetery Records 1846-1921, Third Edition, Sonoma County Genealogical Society; inf. James Finley O'Leary 9:125.
Finley Family Plot (Map site #90)
1/18/1860
3/24/1934
Age 74y 2m 6d
Son of John and Keziah Finley
Twin of Marenda A. Finley
Source: Index to Sonoma County (California) Cemetery Records 1846-1921, Third Edition, Sonoma County Genealogical Society; inf. Nancy Keithley b. & d. Bodega, O'Leary 9:463.
Finley Family Plot (Map site #98)
b. 1/14/1828 TN
d. 11/8/1903 Sonoma Co.,
CA
Wife of John Finley
Source: 1934 DAR list
Finley Family Plot (Map site #97)
1/18/1860
1/18/1860
Daughter of John and Keziah Finley
Source: Headstone recorded by Susan Zeni 2005.
Twin of James Finley
Finley Family Plot (Map site #96)
d. 11/11/1868
Age 11 dys
Daughter of John and Keziah Finley
Source: 1934 DAR list
10/30/1866
12/17/1890
Son of John and Keziah Finley
Source: 1934 DAR list
Finley Family Plot (Map site #50)
From Susan Zeni (taken from NewspaperAbstracts.com 1Jun07):
December 20, 1890 The Sonoma Democrat
The old
story of carelessness in the use of firearms was forcibly brought to public
notice again Wednesday morning, by the tragic death of William FINLEY, son of
John FINLEY, a prosperous dairyman and farmer living near Bodega. It appears
that young FINLEY had been making preparations to indulge in a hunting trip and
on Wednesday morning, made the final arrangements to carry his resolution into
effect. He was in the act of leaving the family residence when, by an
unfortunately careless movement on his part, his gun, a Winchester rifle of
44-calibre pattern, was discharged, the ball entering his mouth and passing
through his head. He was quickly conveyed into the house and common
restoratives applied, but life had passed away almost with the exit of the
deadly leaden messenger from his skull. He was an industrious, hard-working
young man, sober and steady, a native of this State and only 23 years of age.
He was the youngest son of a large family of boys and had spent the major
portion of his life upon the farm where he met his tragic death.
The Finley Family has been researched very extensively by the professional genealogist, Carmen Finley. In particular is her award winning Finley Family History Database at Sonoma State University, her book, The Finleys of Early Sonoma County, California (Heritage Books, Inc.: Bowie, Maryland, 1997), and her John Finley descendants website
From Susan Zeni (email 6 Aug 2005):
...Julia A. Braden, wife of Isaac McReynolds (my GGgrandfather), was the daughter of George Marbern Braden and Nancy J. Finley. George Braden died in 1853 in Macon Co Illinois, and in 1856 Nancy, a widow, came over the Oregon Trail with 5 of her children and settled near Bodega and her brother John Finley. John Finley had migrated to Sonoma County in 1852 from Missouri. This John Finley (who married Keziah Head) was Carmen Finley's great grandfather. Nancy J. Finley's brother, Samuel, was also in the same Sonoma County neighborhood.
Nancy J. Finley Braden's daughter, Julia Ann Braden, married Isaac McReynolds in Sonoma Co in 17 Nov 1864.
Her daughter, Elizabeth P. Braden, married John C. Parker 10 Dec 1864 in Sonoma Co. (they had 3 children).
Her daughter, Almyra J. Braden, married Thomas A. Barnett 10 Feb 1868 in Sonoma Co, (they also had 3 children).
Nancy J. Finley's son, Samuel R. Braden, "Lived in Duncans Mills, Sonoma Co, Ca, where he seved as constable from 1875 to 1879", according to Carmen Finley. I don't know if he married.
The other son who came with Nancy to Sonoma Co, James W. Braden, later went to Oregon.
... Spring Hill Cemetery which houses the McReynolds graves, also has the graves of John Finley and his wife Keziah Head, as well as most of their children. Later Finley generations, though, are buried elsewhere - maybe the Finley Gravesite in Bloomfield?
Map site #19
11/27/1864
10/18/1884
Wife of B. C. Ford
Source: Headstone found and recorded by Friends of Spring.Hill work party, 06/01/07.
Top part of stone:
MARY
Wife of
B.C. FORD
Died
Bottom part of stone:
OCT 18, 1884
Aged
19 Yrs. 10 Mos.
&
21 Dys.
They who die in Christ are blessed
Ours be then no thought of
grief
sweetly with their God they rest
All their toils and troubles
leave
From Susan Zeni (email 1 June 2007):
At today's work party we uncovered another headstone. I have attached the images. We found the top of an existing standing bottom. It is already on the map and is number 19.
Email 1 June 2007:
Mary Ford was not previously recorded on any of our burial lists. The finding of her stone brings us up to 104 known burials at Spring Hill. As Mary was not listed on the 1934 DAR burial list, it seems likely that her stone had been broken with the top buried before the 1934 cemetery survey was taken.
From Carmen Finley (email 12 June 2007):
There was a Barney Cravens Ford, age 34, Bodega Township, in the 1890 Great Register of Sonoma County.
Was this the husband of Mary Ford whose stone was found during last work day at Spring Hill?
I checked the newspaper index for this period and she was not listed there...
Map site #46
2/6/1904
4/10/1977
Source: Headstone recorded by Susan Zeni 2005.
Shared headstone with wife, Florence Wells Gilbert
1910-1990
Wife of Kennon R. Gilbert, Sr.
Source: Headstone recorded by Susan Zeni 2005.
Map site #46
Her 1st husband was George Lancina, and then she married Kennon R. Gilbert, Sr.
Map site #45
10/31/1945
2/4/1996
Source: Headstone recorded by Susan Zeni 2005.
The son of Kennon R. and Florence Gilbert.
d. 1/9/1905
Daughter of J. L. Gilmore
Source: Index to Sonoma County (California) Cemetery Records 1846-1921, Third Edition, Sonoma County Genealogical Society; inf. JL Gilmore, father b. CA d. Spring Hill O'Leary, book 2:58.
d. 4/11/1895
Age 87y 4m 2d
Source: Sonoma Death Book 40 -- found by Jeremy Nichols
From Susan Zeni (12Mar08):
Daily Republican, Santa Rosa, Calif., 12
April 1895, 3:1
Death of R. D. Gore
Thursday, April 11th, R. D. Gore
died at Sacramento at the age of 64 years. The funeral will be held from the
residence of J. F. Gore, 640 King Street, Saturday at 10 o'clock, Rev. E. B.
Ware, pastor of the Christian Church, officiating. The internment will be a
Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
not in 1890 Great Register
Listed in the 1880 Census, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, ED 124, SD 3, household 58, family 62; Gore, Robert D., 72, farmer, b. TN; f. b. SC; m. b. VA; Gore, Charles, son, 30, b. KY; f. b. TN; m. b. TN; Gore, Frederick, son; 19, b. CA; f. b. TN; m. b. TN.
This indicates that Gore was 84 at the time of death.
