The Amite White Sox's

Amite White Sox's
Source: Ancestry 
Contributed by Michael Hughes
The picture represents three families who lived in the Amite City circa 1920
The Finn's, Johnson, and Tates Family

 

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

Carrie Butler Finn of Amite, Louisiana

Carrie Butler Finn
Source: William, Riley, Family Tree
Ancestry

Carrie Butler Finn was born in Amite, Louisiana in 1848 and died in Amite, Louisiana 1920. She was the daughter of Liza York and her father was unknown. Her mother Lisa York was born in 1805 and died in 1910. 

She was married to John Finn. They were the parents of  seven children; Marcel, Solomon, Fannie, Dallie, Joseph, John, and Charles Finn.  All their children was born in Amite, Louisiana Carrie named is also documented at Caroline Finn according to the United States 1870 Federal Census.  She was listed as a mulatto.  I also found her name to be Caroline (York) Saurtz Butler Finn.

Her husband John Finn, Sr., was born in 1836 and died in 1900. 

Charles Finn of Amite, Louisiana

Charles L. Finn
Sources: Ancestry

Charles L. Finn, was born in 1888 in Amite, Louisiana and died in in 1954 in Monticello, New York, He was the son of John and Carrie Butler Finn.

He was married twice, once to Martha and Mary  He and Martha were married in Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993. 

According to the U.S., World War 1 Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Charles also lived in St. Tammany County, Louisiana. In 1940 he was a chauffeur, and rented his house. 

His wife  Martha (Mary) was a pastor and died in 1988, she is buried in Rock Ridge Cemetery in Monticello, New York. Charles.  

Elmer Finn is the son Charles L. Finn and Mary Dampier. Elmer was married's to Helen Finn. Johnathan Finn directly line is through John Finn. John was born in 1940 and died in 2000.