Lovina Lorena Finley ^{1 2}

   Another name for Lovina was Louisa Finley.³

  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1880 US Census in Squaw Township, Warren County, IA on June 1880. ³

1880 US Census
Page 420C, Roll 0368
Squaw Township, Warren County, Iowa
Louisa Foreman...Sis..26..WV..Servant
(Living with widowed sister, Mathilda.)

NOTE - Louisa Foreman was listed as a sister to Mathilda Foreman. But her exact name presents somewhat of a mystery. My suspicion is that she was "Lovina Finley" who was 26 years old at the time of the 1880 census and who was later married in 1881. However, the census listed her with a surname of "Foreman" whereas the unmarried Lovina should have been listed as "Finley". Was this a mistake on the part of the enumerator or was she really a sister of the deceased husband of Matilda, A. J. Forman? If that were the case, then her relationship should have been listed as "sister-in-law" instead of "sister". Or she could have been "Alcinda Finley" of whom little else is known other than she would have been about 31 years old at the time of the 1880 census. Or she could have been a previously unknown Finley sister with the name "Louisa".
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Lovina married Asa W. Mosher on 10 July 1881.¹ (Asa W. Mosher was born about 1849 and died after July 1881.)