OBITUARY OF CYRUS FILEY (1844-1924)
Uncited original clippings from the family archives of Frances Mitchell Houston, Troy, MO, 2012
Transcribed and Submitted by Pauline Houston Steeves

Cyrus Finley, aged 83 years, died last Friday night at his home one mile north of
Auburn. Funeral services were held at the home Sunday afternoon and interment was made in the Reid cemetery near Okete. He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Miss Hazel Finley and Mrs. Virgil Long, and two grandchildren, William Cyrus and Mildred Louise Long. Mr. Finley had had been a invalid for more than three years, following a stroke of paralysis on August 9, 1921. He became very ill one week before his death and gradually grew weaker until the end came.

Cyrus Finley was born December 4 1841, on the old homestead near Okete, cleared and improved by his father nearly a century ago. He was the seventh of ten children born to Cyrus and Jane Shannon Finley, natives respectively of Virginia and Kentucky, who came to Missouri in 1829, one year following their marriage in Kentucky.

Cyrus, junior, attended the old subscription schools and assisted his father in farming until he attained his majority, when he began doing for himself. He farmed for a time and eventually engaged in the mercantile business in Clayton, Ill. Returning to Missouri, he followed farming once more until 1883, when he built a large store building at Brisoe and began merchandising again. Meantime, he acquired farming interests which occupied part of his time in overseeing. About twenty-five years ago he went to Silex and remained there in the mercantile business until 1907, when he bought and moved to the old Archibald Alexander farm near Auburn, where he spent the remainder of his days. He was a man of strict integrity and character, clear judgment and sound business ability, well informed on topics of the day through reading, and possessed the courage of his convictions whatever the issue. He was a Democrat and never lost interest in the political situation, even after his invalidism.

[Submitter's note: From the Troy Free Press, Troy, MO, date unknown.]

File submitted to HERITAGE PAGES of LINCOLN COUNTY, MISSOURI by Pauline Houston Steeves, 12 February, 2012.

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