The Fink Family

Don Fink sent me some more info on Jacob K Fink.

Newspaper announcement of 50th wedding anniversary.  12-27-1937  Lawrence, KS

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kirkpatrick Fink of route one celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Saturday, December 25, at the home of their son, Edwin E. Fink, and family, 917 Tennessee Street.  Thirty eight guests were present at the dinner, these including the eight children of the guests of honor and their families.

Gifts and messages of congratulation were received during the afternoon, which was spent with reminices and music.  Guests weated at the main table were Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Fink and their sons and daughters, seated in the positions which they occupied when they were chidren at home.  The table was centered with a four-tiered wedding cake topped by a bride and groom standing under a golden wedding bell, and flanked by tall golden tapers.  Additional guests were seated at quartet tables placed thruout the living rooms.  A line party at the Granada in the afternoon was arranged for younger members of the party.

Members of the family present were George Harrison Fink of Salina;  Mr. and Mrs. P. Everett Sperry and family of Lawrence;  Emmett L. Fink and family of Topeka;  J. Dewey Fink and family of Alamosa, Colo.; Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Netherland of Topeka;  Mrs. Ruth Sawyer and son, Daniel Dean, and Jacob Kirkpatrick Fink, jr., of Topeka.

Additional guests were Alonso Brummitt of Hays, nephew of Mr. Fink, Mrs. Fink and their family.

Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Fink were married January 22, 1888, at the home of the brides parents in Oxford, Ark.  Mrs. Fink was Martha Elizabeth Gibson.  In 1900 they came to Kansas and settled at Fairport, in Ellis Co., later moving to Logan county.  They moved to Lawrence in the spring of 1928, buying the property on North Michigan street adjoining that of their daughter Mrs. Sperry, where they live at the present time.  Seven of Mr. and Mrs. Fink’s eight children are or have been teachers in rural schools, high schools or colleges.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kirkpatrick Fink of route one celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Saturday, December 25, at the home of their son, Edwin E. Fink, and family, 917 Tennessee Street.  Thirty eight guests were present at the dinner, these including the eight children of the guests of honor and their families.

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I was sent some interesting information on William J Fink (1859-1935) this week. As mentioned in the last post, William J is my great-great grandfather’s (Jacob K Fink, 1863-1945) older brother.

Story told by his son Wilson Fink

William Jefferson Fink was married with one child. His wife died and he married Mary Robinson. They had seven more children. Five of those children and Mary died from mushroom poisoning. They are buried in Arkansas. He moved to Hays, Kansas with the two remaining children – Ezekiel and Charles. He heard of Mattie Gibson’s husband’s death (they were neighbors in Arkansas). She had three children – Myrtle, Roy, and Lehman (Pete). William sent her a letter proposing marriage. She accepted by letter. He was plowing with a team of horses when the letter came and he decided to wait until evening to read the letter (he enjoyed the suspense). When he was ready to read the letter, he found he had plowed it under sometime during the day. Next day he plowed backward and uncovered the letter. They had five more children – Ernest, Annabelle, Stanley, Mary, and Wilson.

Obituary

William Jefferson Fink was born near Greenleaf [actually Green County], Tennessee, March 1859 and departed from this life in St. Anthony’s hospital in Hays, March 3, 1935. He came to Kansas when a young man. He was married to Mary Robinson and 7 children were born to this union. Wife and 5 children departed this life. In 1905 he was united in marriage to Mrs. Mattie Gibson, who had 3 children by a former marriage. He was a kind father to these children, and to this union 2 daughters and three sons were born, Mrs. Lloyd Sawyer, residing in Fountain, Colorado, Mary, having passed away in September 1931, Earnie, Stanley and Wilson all of Monument, Ezekiel of Codell and Charles of Paradise. One brother and sister were not able to be here on account of ill health. He leaves 8 grandchildren besides other relatives, and friends. He professed faith in Christ in 1910. Peacefully sleeping, resting at last. The world’s weary troubles and toils are past. In silence he suffered, in patience he bore, ‘Till God called him home to suffer no more.