Wife of Abraham Osborn
Marker reads: Loretta Finch Osborn figured in the Wyoming NY massacre. She and her little brother were taken captives by the Indians after their father was killed and scalped.
Loretta Finch survived the Wyoming Valley Massacre in Pennsylvania.
Her father and two uncles died in the Wyoming Valley Massacre. Loretta watched her father being scalped. She then carried her 4-year-old brother, Asahel, for many miles so the Indians would not kill him. They survived the Wyoming Valley Massacre in July 1778.
This later information is from Nathaniel Osborn, a great grandson, who showed the burial spot on a knoll in a field, formerly an orchard, some distance back from the highway, to Mrs. Harriet Clark of Lucy Wolcott Barnum Chapter, Adrian.
Marker reads: Loretta Finch Osborn figured in the Wyoming NY massacre. She and her little brother were taken captives by the Indians after their father was killed and scalped.
Loretta Finch survived the Wyoming Valley Massacre in Pennsylvania.
Her father and two uncles died in the Wyoming Valley Massacre. Loretta watched her father being scalped. She then carried her 4-year-old brother, Asahel, for many miles so the Indians would not kill him. They survived the Wyoming Valley Massacre in July 1778.
This later information is from Nathaniel Osborn, a great grandson, who showed the burial spot on a knoll in a field, formerly an orchard, some distance back from the highway, to Mrs. Harriet Clark of Lucy Wolcott Barnum Chapter, Adrian.
Wife of Abraham Osborn
Marker reads: Loretta Finch Osborn figured in the Wyoming NY massacre. She and her little brother were taken captives by the Indians after their father was killed and scalped.
Loretta Finch survived the Wyoming Valley Massacre in Pennsylvania.
Her father and two uncles died in the Wyoming Valley Massacre. Loretta watched her father being scalped. She then carried her 4-year-old brother, Asahel, for many miles so the Indians would not kill him. They survived the Wyoming Valley Massacre in July 1778.
This later information is from Nathaniel Osborn, a great grandson, who showed the burial spot on a knoll in a field, formerly an orchard, some distance back from the highway, to Mrs. Harriet Clark of Lucy Wolcott Barnum Chapter, Adrian.
Marker reads: Loretta Finch Osborn figured in the Wyoming NY massacre. She and her little brother were taken captives by the Indians after their father was killed and scalped.
Loretta Finch survived the Wyoming Valley Massacre in Pennsylvania.
Her father and two uncles died in the Wyoming Valley Massacre. Loretta watched her father being scalped. She then carried her 4-year-old brother, Asahel, for many miles so the Indians would not kill him. They survived the Wyoming Valley Massacre in July 1778.
This later information is from Nathaniel Osborn, a great grandson, who showed the burial spot on a knoll in a field, formerly an orchard, some distance back from the highway, to Mrs. Harriet Clark of Lucy Wolcott Barnum Chapter, Adrian.
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Loretta Finch Osborn figured in the Wyoming NY massacre. She and her little brother were taken captives by the Indians after their father was killed and scalped
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Her father Daniel Finch has another findagrave memorial listed with the Battle of Wyoming.
Pvt Daniel Finch
Memorial ID 126084270
Burial: Battle of Wyoming Burial Ground
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