From The Cambridge City Tribune
Cambridge City, Indiana
12 June, 1902 

   Finley Ferguson, born April 2, 1849, died June 7, 1902. Aged 53 years, 2 months and 5 days.
   “Begun and Ended,” is the title-stamp of earth’s brief record, but between the covers is hidden the story of life’s history.
   The subject of this memoir commenced the story of his life on the Gilliland homestead farm, in Fayette county. He finished it, laid aside the pen, and closed the book at his home in Milton, on Saturday. To undo the clasp and scan the pages of the open book, leaf by leaf, is but to find the lights and shadows common to mortality lying side by side, and, as threads of changeful hues, woven into the story from its beginning to its ending.
   The deceased was the son of Levingston and Elizabeth Gilliland Ferguson. Three brothers, John, Horton and Albert, survive him. Of these, Horton is now in the Indian Territory. The mother died March 29, 1861, and on October 1, 1863, the father married Ursula F. Carver. She with the one half-sister, Mrs. Fred R. Sizelove. both of Bentonville, are left to mourn. The father died September 20, 1877.
   Finley Ferguson and Emma Wilson were married September 12, 1872. To them was born one daughter, Daisy, and like some tender flower was she nourished in their affections. In 1881 her parents moved to Milton, where she grew to womanhood.
   In February 1880, the subject of this history made the good confession, was baptized and received into the Christian church at Milton, under the evangelistic labors of Rev. Brown. His desire was to do the will of Christ. If he failed remember he was but mortal and that all have sinned and come far short of the glory of God. Whatever his faults may have been cover them over with the beautiful mantle of charity and forget them as though they never had been. He loved his family, he was quiet and unassuming in manner, a kind friend and neighbor. These virtues we may emulate. Let us turn with the tear of sympathy to this bereaved wife and two little grandchildren, Robert and Harold, who will miss him most. He leaves a son-in-law.
   For several years he has been ailing but since the death of his daughter, late wife of Thos. G. McDaniel, in February, 1902, he declined rapidly, his disease culminating in enlargement and abscess on the liver, as shown by the postmortem. He took his bed on Friday, May 30, never to arise again. The sands in the hour-glass were numbered. He lingered as a great sufferer until the following Friday evening, when he fell into a restful quiet and at 1:30 in the morning as the last golden grain dropped into the past he reached the shores of Time, from which he embarked for the viewless shores of the Great Beyond.
   Funeral services were conducted at the Christian church Monday morning by Rev. Shearer. Interment in Westside cemetery.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010