JAN. 11 ISSUE ANSWERS: (The object in the photo is a yoke that fits over a pair of oxen like in the story below. It is in the Craig Blacksmith Museum. ) During 1874 the Romeo Historical Society members collected stories of the early settlers in Romeo. They wrote about the Chamberlins, Taylors, Ewells, Finches, Hoxies and the local Indian groups. These are reprinted from the 100th anniversary papers of the Romeo Observer (1966-1967.) They are available to visitors in the Romeo Historical Society Archives at 290 N. Main. Here are excerpts from the Finch story over a couple of weeks. They had quite an adventure. “Albert Finch, the senior member of the Finch family, was born in Dutchess Co., N.Y., in the year 1775. At the age of twenty-five, he moved to Ontario County, same state. Here be located, and was neighbor to the Baileys, and to Mr. Gates. In the year 1823, the report of the goodly land at Indian Village, reached him, and in order to secure some of these broad acres for his boys, just coming into manhood, he decided, in February, to “go and view the land.” Accordingly he set sail with a sled, a yoke of oxen, a few of the necessities of life, with a son