A Collection of Papers from the Fincher Family
of Pike County, Georgia, 1830-1920

• A 19th century recipe for making pills from walnut bark and chicken gizzards
• Pike County, Georgia, Court of Ordinary guardianship assignment of Lewis & Eliza King and their children (a free black family) to Joseph Fincher, 1836
• Deed of Lot 246, District 8, from Joseph Fincher to Joseph T. Fincher, 1844
• Contract for hire of E. M. Battle's slave Dawson by John Neal & J. T. Fincher, 1845
• Promissary note to Joseph Fincher from B. S. Patton on James Hagans, 1845
• Receipt for the sale of a slave, 1859

• William Thomas Fincher letter of 21 February 1863 to his parents concerning the election of officers of the 2nd Regiment, Georgia State Line
• June 13, 1863, pass for Joseph Travis Fincher to travel from Pike County to 2nd Regiment, Georgia State Line
• Furlough for Joseph T. Fincher, August 28, 1863
• Transcription of letter from Mary R. Crawford to J. T. Fincher, February 15, 1864   
• Original letter from Mary R. Crawford to J. T. Fincher.   
• Letter to his family from Joseph Travis Fincher, April 11, 1864, from Camp Ruff (includes Joseph's poetry).  
• Original letter from Prudence Brooks Slade to her sister Martha Brooks Fincher, 6 May 1864 -- pages 1 & 4,   pages 2 & 3.  
• William Thomas Fincher reports Georgia State Line casualties at the Battle of Kolb's Farm, Marietta, Georgia, 1864.
• Civil War Through the Eyes of a Common Soldier: As Told in the Letters of Joseph Travis Fincher of Pike County, Georgia
   (An article about the experiences of the Fincher family during the Civil War).

• Tintype and history of Mary Perry Horn Fincher (1805-1901), wife of Joseph Fincher
• Tintype of brothers Joseph Travis Fincher and William Jonathan Fincher of Pike County, Georgia, circa 1870
• A Week in the Life of the Fincher Family of Pike County, Georgia:   an excerpt from Joseph Travis Fincher's 1872 diary, which includes a community "house-raising" for Joseph's cotton gin, as well as an account of the birth of his daughter, Sarah Lillie.
• Diary account of Prudence Emma Fincher Achord's death, September 4, 1879 (appended at the bottom of Fincher cemetery page)
• Certificate of employment of Joseph T. Fincher as enumerator of the 1890 Federal Census for the 91st Enumeration District, Pike County, Georgia
• Photograph of Mary Eliza Fincher (granddaughter of Joseph Travis Fincher) and her husband Otis Collier, circa 1894, Barnesville, Pike County, Georgia   
• Roster of Fincher's School, Pike County, 1915-1916
• Fincher cemetery records at Fincher Memorial Cemetery, Pike County, Georgia

Please sign my Guestbook. View the Guestbook

My thanks to all of you who have written such encouraging notes in my guestbook. Please forgive me that I have not contacted each of you. Due to time restraints of family (my mother will be 99 years young on March 3, 2010), personal commitments, and, of course, my grandchildren, I haven't spent much time in the past few years on genealogy.  However, I'm gradually getting back into the "family search mode," so please stay connected.  Perhaps there will suddenly appear some piece of paper in the collection that mentions your ancestor.  Please don't forget that all material on this site is copyrighted by the author; you may use the material in your personal research, but it may not be published in any form, online or otherwise.

See also:

• Linda Fincher Wood's home page (includes additional information about the Fincher family)
• Fincher Family & Friends Calendar -- please feel free to contribute.
• List of miscellaneous sites for military records on the web, including the Civil War
• Pike County, Georgia, genealogy site
• Lamar County, Georgia, genealogy site, formed from part of Pike and Monroe Counties in 1920
• Another Fincher family web site by Mitch Fincher