Lorenzo Finney

FINNEY, GORDON, HALL, KILLAM, MCDOWELL, PRAYTHER, WILSON, SAWYER

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 5/5/2006 at 17:51:04

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, March 14, 1929

DEATH OF LORENZO FINNEY

Lorenzo Finney, a veteran of the Civil war and one of the old residents of Winterset, died early Wednesday morning, March 13th, 1929, at his home in the northwest part of town. He had been in failing health for some time.

Mr. Finney was eighty-two years old at the time of his death, having been born in Delaware county, Ohio March 6, 1847. He came with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Finney, to Adair county, when a small boy. At the outbreak of the Civil war, he and his twin brother, Alonzo, joined the army and served in Company I, 4th Iowa Cavalry.

His wife, Sadie Gordon Finney, preceded him in death six years ago, and his sister, Mrs. Sadie F. Hall, since the death of her husband, J. H. Hall, has been making her home with him. He is survived by one son, Nelson Finney, of Dalton, Nebraska; five sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Josephine Killam, of Winterset; Mrs. Electa McDowell, of Des Moines; Mrs. Ida Prayther and Mrs. Anna Wilson, of Springfield, Missouri; B. F. Finney, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Will Finney, of Glendale, California. He also leaves four grandchildren, Alta Sawyer of Denver, and Dean Sawyer, of Broadwater, Nebraska, children of Mrs. Jessie Sawyer, deceased, and Margaret and Kenneth Finney of Dalton, Nebraska.

Funeral services will be conducted, Friday, March 15th, at the Ramsey-Richarads funeral home at 2:30 o'clock, Rev. John T. Hall of the Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be made in the Winterset Cemetery.

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