Born Mar 25, 1846, Wayne Co., IL d Mar 3, 1900 Stephenville, Erath, TX. His grave marked only by a fieldstone at the right of his wife Mary Elizabeth Creswell who shares a tombstone with their daughter Effie. Finley's obit in brother Frank Gaston's "Granbury News", Granbury, TX, newspaper states Finley was buried at the right hand of his wife in Alexander Cemetery.