John Finn, Sr. of Amite, Louisiana.

John Finn, Sr, was born in 1900 to Marcel Finn and Samuella Tate Finn. John died in 1998 in New Philadelphia, Ohio. John was married to Mable Johnson.  Mable was born in 1903 in Amite, Louisiana. Her parents were Robert Allen Johnson and Maggie Steptoe. 

John and Mable had five children; Lula, Eva, Dorothy Ruth, and John Finn, Jr. His U.S., World War 1 Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 said that he was slender build, tall, black hair and black eyes. He was employed by the Light & Power Company. 

The Ohio, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Obituary Index, 18102-2013 recorded that he was ninety-eight years old when he died on November 14, 1998. 

John parents Marcel and Samuella (Tate) Finn had nine children. They were Lawrence Tude, John, Sr., Ruth Finn Johnson, Lucille Finn Bigelow, Morris M. Finn, Alphonso, Finn, Gertrude Finn, Nelson Finn, Sr., and Willie Huckberry Finn. 

When the Finn's family left the South during "The Great Migration" sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, six million African Americans out of the Rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1916-1970.  

Jonathan Finn emailed me searching for his Finn family history connected to Amite, Louisiana. Johnathan is presently living in Upstate New York. He said that his ancestor Charles L. Finn, was a chauffeur and that maybe how the Finn family left the south. The origin of the Finn name derived from Irish, meaning "white" or "fair" the Finn family have a lot of family members listed as mulattos on the United States Federal Census. 

John Finn, Sr., and his wife Mable Johnson
Source: Ancestry Public Finn Family Tree