Source:
MyHeritage.com—
newspaperarchive.com: Chronicle Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) (July 10, 1936, p. 11) and (July 6, 1966, p. 12);
Ancestry.com—U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards; and
www.findagrave.com.
In 1910 Gideon lived in Kiawa, Harper County, Oklahoma with his wife Etta and their son John. His name was spelled Finley. Gideon’s brother George also lived in Oklahoma at that time.
In 1930 Gideon lived in North Ridgeville, Lorain County, Ohio with his wife Catherine, his son Thomas and daughter Mary from his first marriage, his daughter Catherine from his marriage to Catherine Pauly, and Catherine’s son Harold Smith from her first marriage.
In 1935 Gideon and his wife and their daughter Catherine lived in Lorain County, Ohio.
In 1940 Gideon and his wife Katharine and daughter Catherine lived in Deep Creek, Norfolk County, Virginia with a lodger, DeForest M. Faulkner.
He resided in Westlake, Cuyahoga County, Ohio at the home of his son step son Harold Smith and died in a hospital in Fairview Park, Cuyahoga County.