BORN: 1815
BORN IN: Germany
DIED: 8/5/1887
AGED: 72
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City
ADDRESS: 90 Finger Ave, RC
OCCUPATION: Farmer
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BURIED IN UNION CEMETERY WITH THE SAME LAST NAME:
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BURIED NEARBY IN PLOT 117:
- Beyer, Herman
- Finger, August F
- Finger, Herman
- Finger, Lawrence F
- Finger, Wilhelmina
- Grund, Rudolph
- Hilton, Henry A
- Huff, Margaret
- Stelter, Infant
- Stelter, Louis
CURRENT EVENTS:- 1831 Reaper (Cyrus McCormick)
- 1836 Revolver (Samuel Colt)
- 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
- 1846 Mexican-American War
- 1849 California Gold Rush
- 1850 California became the 31st State
- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
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OBITUARY ---------------THEODORE FINGER
August 6, 1887
The curt dispatch which in this mornings dailies will carry to the readers of the state the news of Theodore Finger’s terrible death. Thc story of the tragedy may be as curtly told here in as possible. Bent with the manifest burdens of his seventy-two years, preoccupied, short sighted, at least slightly deaf, he was crossing the railroad track which passes the entrance to the lane leading to his home, as was his daily habit. He heard not the approaching train. For more than 33 years, Theodore Finger has lived where all that is mortal of him now lies. Before this was a county he began to make his home there. He was almost a young man then, scarce forty; vigorous, wiry, fond of work and finding it daily. For more than 33 years he lived there, a daily examplar of frugality, of probity, of good citizenship in its best sense. Mr. Finger was born in Germany 72 years ago. To Mr. and Mrs Finger were born three sons. Henry J. is their only living child. He is a druggist in Santa Barbara. But one of their ways of doing good, and one of the noblest manifestations of their personal generosity was their adoption of children. Five of them became inmates of their happy, always attractive home and one of them, Miss Josie Finger, is now her foster mothers closest companion. The hospitality which gave the home of the Fingers its charm was an indescribable blending of old-world courtesy and new-world informality. Their home was “Liberty Hall”.
Lot 117
August 13, 1887 The last rites to the remains of the late Theodore Finger were paid last Monday afternoon. Religious services were held at the Congregational Church, Pastor Pascoe and Rev. H.E. Jewett of Oakland conducting. We desire to correct two important errors in our account of the accident. We said on what we believed good authority that Mr. Finger was both short sighted and deaf. On the contrary he was far sighted and his hearing was acute.
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