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Name
Matthew Finger   #1197
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Born
7 May 1815
Place
? Columbia County, New York
Source
Died
6 May 1859
Place
Taghkanic, New York
Source
     approx. age 44


Buried

Father
Mother

Spouse
Date
2 Sep 1843
Place
Reformed Church, Gallatin, Columbia, New York
Source
  1  Almira Finger abt 1844
  2  Angeline Finger Apr 1847
  3  William Finger Nov 1849

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He may also been known as Martin Finger

Found him on the 1850 Taghkanic, Columbia, New York census (img 21), as Matthew Finger age 35, laborer.

Found him on the 1855 Taghkanic, New York state census as Matthew Finger age 40, carpenter. He is living in the household of Caleb and Lucinda Post. His daughter Almira, age 11, is a boarder nearby in the household of Henry Silvernail.

On Tuesday of last week Matthew Finger, a carpenter by trade, while engaged in raising a barn for Edwin Scott at Taghkanic, fell backwards from a rafter a distance of sixteen feet, and received internal injuries, from the effects of which he died on Friday afternoon. Mr. Finger was about 42 years of age and was much respected by his neighbors and numerous acquaintances, for his industry, integrity and kindness of heart — Gazette.

We learn that Matthew Finger, formerly of Gallatin, met with a fatal accident while assisting in raising a building, in Taghkanic one day last week. He was pulling at a rope attached to a stick of timber below; and the rope slipping off, he fell backward to the ground and was instantly killed. - The Red Hook Weekly Journal May 13, 1859

Since his wife had died in 1851, and he died in 1859 without a will, we see that John I. Johnson was appointed guardian of his minor daughter Angeline who was the executor of his estate, a minor.


                                                                    | MICHAEL FINGER  1728
                                                                    |
                                  | JOHANNES "JOHN" FINGER Sr. 1752 | 
                                  |                                 |
                                  |                                 | MARGARETHA MOSSER 1727 
                                  |                              
| JACOB J. FINGER 1786            |
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|                                 |                                 | JAN DECKER  1725   
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|                                 | TYSJE DECKER 1754               |
|                                                                   | 
|                                                                   | ANNA SCHUTS  
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|- Matthew Finger   
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|                                 | JOHANNES TRAVER  1752           |   
|                                 |                                 | 
|                                 |                                 | ANNA MARGARETHA KUNTZ 1725 
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| CHRISTINA TRAVER 1794           |
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                                  |                                 | CHRISTIAN GROOT  
                                  |                                 |                        
                                  | EVA GROT 1757                   |
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                                                                    | CHRISTINA DINGS                                                     


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