Montie La Von Fine

Montie married Lydia Mdu??? on 13 Jun 1913 in El Paso, El Paso, Texas. Lydia was born between 1874 and 1896; died between 1918 and 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Alt. Born February 20, 1851
Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri

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Alt. Died January 19, 1933
Noxie, Nowata County, Oklahoma

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Burial January 22, 1933
Robbins Cemetery in Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas

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Wiley married Elizabeth Frances Howard on 29 Aug 1871 in Jasper, MO. Elizabeth (daughter of Raleigh Howard and Jemima Jones) was born on 29 Apr 1853 in Jasper, Missouri; died on 21 Apr 1891. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Burial April 24, 1891
Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri

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Name (Facts Pg)
Elizabeth Frances "Lizzie" Howard

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The following letter is from Andrew Jackson Fine (1829-1917) to his
brother
Levi Fine (1825-1865). It was transcribed by cousin Greeta from a copy
that
was hand-traced by my Aunt Ruth, so I haven't seen the original and
can't
vouch for the transcription.
Enjoy!
Alice Ramsay

March 2, 1859
Dear brother Levi: it is with pleasure that I seat myself down to write
a
few words to inform you that we are all well at present except myself,
and
hoping that when these few lines come to hand that they find you are all
well
and doing well. Jane received a letter from Martha last week which gave
much
satisfaction to hear from you all and to hear you are all well. I have
written 3 or 4 letters to you and have not heard the first scratch of a
pen
from you yet. So I will try again, but I have not much to write.
I will give you the prices of a few things: gild horses are from $75.00
to
$125.00. Work ones are $50.00 to $100.00 For yoke cows and calves
$15.00 to
$30. Wheat from $1.00 to $1.25 a bu., corn is selling for 40 cents to
50
cents a bu. and not much to sell at that. I have sold about $150.00
worth of
corn that I raised last year and I think not much will be raised next
year
for folks are not near done planting yet and it rains twice a day in the
week
and 3 times on Sunday and that don't look much like planting corn. I
want
you to write as soon as you get this letter. I have sold my last 4
acres for
$500.00 and I will Take $300.00 for the other 40 acres joining it and 80
acres can be bought for $600.00. So ends the chapter.
My pretty Lizy Mack is married. But Dineker is single yet and so am I.
Thank God nevertheless that we are not all married yet by a jug full or
a
little more.
Levi if you do come back, I want you to bring me a nice little pony
about 3
or 4 yrs. Old if you can get it for $25 or $30 dollars. There is to be
a big
horse race the 23rd or 24th of June, at Stewerts track in Lincern County
W.V.
Stewerts Den rock and Slim Biddens St. Louis mare and Sheltons St.
Louis
horse and Carders St. Louis & I expect the Harkens & & repeat. So I
expect
there will be some fast racing being done. I send my best love to my
friends, especially to Charity and husband when she sites him. So end
the
chapter. So must come to a close.
But remain your affectionate brother until death,
Andrew J. Fine and children, Marion & Wiley Fine

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Alt. Born October 23, 1825
Jonesburg, Montgomery County, Missouri

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Alt. Died May 08, 1865
the Military Hospital in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri

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Burial Unknown
?

Levi married Martha Watkins on 14 May 1844 in Troy, Lincoln MO. Martha was born on 7 Jul 1828 in Georgia; died between 1859 and 1922. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Nationality
Powhatan Indian

Name (Facts Pg)
Martha A. Watkins

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Raleigh married Jemima Jones between 1828 and 1871. Jemima was born between 1811 and 1834; died between 1856 and 1922. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BURIED IN FINE CEMETERY IN HAWK POINT MISSOURI LINCOLN COUNTY
1850 WARREN COUNTY MISSOURI CENSUS
1860 WARREN COUNTY MISSOURI CENSUS, Undisclosed WITH SON ANDREW

Notes for Cynthia Hopkins:
I found a handwritten copy of this obit
for Cynthia Hopkins, next to a copy of births and deaths in a family
bible. I'll try to type it as it is written.
Mrs. Cynthia Fine who died in Camp Branch on the 23rd of March was one
of the oldest residents of this part of the state. Her maiden name was
Cynthia Hopkins. She was born in Kentucky in 1798 and moved to Missouri
in 1810 and settled in what is now Montgomery County, near Belleville
about one year later in the locality she resided ever since. She lived
to see all her old neighbors pass away, and while new generations were
born in to the world and grew to manhood and womanhood, served their
time upon the stage of life and made their exit in the grate.
Unknown, this good woman lived on in quite peaceful and uneventful
way. Having arrived here a few years after the territory of Louisiana
was ceded to the United States she has seen Missouri organized into a
separate territory and admitted as a state. She has lived until the few
meager settlements in the old settled portion of the state has grown
into a population of near three mill souls. When she came here this
country was a vast expanse of wild prairie on the North, and a
wilderness on the South and their nearest neighbors lived miles apart.
What a contrast to the present day. When every foot of prairie is in
high state of cultivation dotted over with handsome residents and
instead of the savage war whoop that some times chased these early
settlers to Pondfort 35 miles east for refuge.
We now hear the snort of the steam engine as it all most hourly plunges
across our domain bearing away loaded trains of the products of the
fertile soil. The subject of this sketch was married in 1819 to the late
Abraham Fine with whom she lived happily for a period of sixty two
years.
Mrs. Fine possessed a retentive memory and never tired of narrating
incidents connected with the early settlement of this state and often
spoke of her husband having to go 35 miles to muster and 50 miles to
mill.
When she ferried across the River at St. Louis in 1810 she described
that place as being a little ugly French village strung along the River
and in front of a heavy thicket of black jacks. Her husband was offered
the ferry boat at that place as a present if he would attend to it. But
thinking the little town would never amount to anything he declined to
accept it. She also related that about that time 300 arpents of land now
in the hear of the great city was given in exhange for an ordinary side
saddle.
Mrs. Fine was the mother of twelve children, three daughters and nine
sons, all of whom grew up and married, except one. Many of them settled
in the same neighborhood and are now heads of large families. Her
children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren number about ninety.
Mrs. Fine never united with any church but was a good, motherly woman

Marriage Notes for Abraham Fine and Cynthia Hopkins:
The nearest Justice of the Peace wasJames Duncan, of Lincoln county, who lived sixteen miles distant, and was too old to go so far to marry perople. But he agreed to meet them half way.

Accordingly on the day of the wedding they set out on foot, and walked to the
designated place, where the 'Squire met them and performed the ceremony, and
they walked back home the same day. Mrs. Fines still has the dress that she
wore on that memorable occasion. Mr. Fines was a very active man, and no one
could beat him on a foot race.

He was one of the first grand jurymen of Montgomery county.

He says that while out hunting one day, he came upon a den of rattlesnakes, whose heads were so thick where they stretched themselves out of their den that they looked like corn stubbles in a field. He fired into them with his gun and then ran away without looking back to see what execution he had done.

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Alt. Born September 07, 1797
Jonesburg, Montgomery County, Tennessee (possibly Sept. 9, 1798)

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Alt. Died April 29, 1882
Warren County, Missouri

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Burial
Fine Cemetery in Hawkpoint, LIncoln County, Missouri

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Abraham married Cynthia Harper Hopkins on 28 Oct 1819 in Lincoln County Missouri. Cynthia (daughter of William Hopkins and Elizabeth Stone) was born on 25 Oct 1798 in Lincoln County Missouri; died on 23 Mar 1877 in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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May hve been born in Kentucky

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Alt. Born October 25, 1798
Lincoln County, Missouri or Kentucky (as in her obituary)

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Alt. Died March 23, 1887
Belleville, Missouri

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Name (Facts Pg)
Cynthia Hopkins

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