Patrick H. Finn and Mary Molly Ellen Shrider Finn
Patrick H. Finn was born in July, 1872 in Lima Ohio. Mary Molly Ellen
Shrider was born in 1878 in the nearby town of Lafayette.They married
in 1896. After living in Lima for a few years, they were in Muncie,
Indiana when a tragic event befell the young family. In late December
of 1904
their two year old son, Bernard Joseph Finn was playing with a small tin
wagon, walking backward and pulling the wagon when he tripped over a
kettle of hot water set on the floor next to the stove. Even though his
mother immediately attended to him, he died from the burns. Mary, too,
suffered sever burns. The family returned to the Lima area by 1910. In all
the family had nine children: Paul, 1897, Helen, 1899, Bernard, 1902,
Leo, 1905, Richard, 1906, Harold, 1909, Mary, 1911, Rita, 1913, and
James, 1917. Leo was born in Muncie, Indiana, then Richard was born in
Lima.