Finch, David

FINCH, DEAN, KIME, SPRINGER

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Finch, David

David Finch, an honored citizen of Newton for over fifty years, one of the worthy pioneers of this new country whose interests he ever had at heart and sought to promulgate in any way possible, was born in Yates County, New York, January 19, 1827. His childhood and youth were spent in Ohio, in which state, on May 28, 1854, he was united in marriage with Jemima Dean, and soon afterward they emigrated to Iowa, settling in Newton, Jasper County, which, with the exception of a few years spent in Nebraska, had been his home through all the years until his death, in 1908.

In February 1877, his wife was called to her rest, leaving beside her husband, three sons, Madison, now residing at Wray, Colorado, and Edgar and Ernest, residents of Newton, Iowa. An only daughter, Florence, had died in early childhood.

In November 1879, Mr. Finch was united in marriage with Mary Kime, who, with their one son, Earl Finch, of Los Angeles, California, survives him. Surviving him are also four sisters, all that are now left of a family of eleven children. Mr. Finch was a man of industry and very successful in a material way.

Mrs. David Finch was the daughter of George W. and Julia Kime, very old settlers of Jasper County and well known here to a past generation, both being now deceased. The mother was born in Ulster County, New York, May 16, 1816; she moved to Ohio in 1837 and two years later was married to George W. Kime and they moved to Jasper County, Iowa, in 1852. Then, ten years afterwards, they moved to a place three miles south of West Union, Nebraska, where they remained until Mrs. Kime's death, December 5, 1890. Her remains were brought to Newton, Iowa, and interred in the cemetery here. George W. Kime, who spent the latter years of his life in retirement, died at the home of his son, Jarvis Kime, near Dunning, Nebraska, on December 22, 1898; his remains were interred beside his wife in the cemetery at Newton, Iowa. He was eighty-one and a half years of age, having been born in Virginia on July 6, 1817. He lived in his native state until seven years of age when he removed with his parents to Seneca County, Ohio, where he grew to manhood and was there married to Julia A. Springer on November 10, 1839, and their union resulted in the birth of three children, namely: Margaret E., who died in her seventeenth year; Jarvis M., who lives in Nebraska; and Mary, widow of David Finch of this sketch.

In 1853 George W. Kime moved with his family by wagon to Iowa County, Iowa, and there lived amid the primitive conditions prevailing all over the state at that period until 1837, in which year he moved to Newton, Jasper County, and here made his home until 1879, when he moved his family to Custer County, Nebraska, where the remainder of his life was spent on a farm.

David Finch had been a faithful member of the Congregational Church for many years, in fact, was one of its pillars of strength. He was also a worthy Mason, a Knight Templar, one of the last duties of his life being in attendance at the funeral of a brother Knight, from which he was returning home on April 24, 1908, when he was stricken with paralysis which resulted in his passing away a few days later at the age of eighty-one years, three months and twelve days, his death being marked with rare fortitude and sublimity of faith. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 613.