John Vincent + Mary Addy

This pair was difficult to find and pin down.  The only clue I had to start with was his approx birth year of 1814, that he was married to a Mary A, had a son die of smallpox in a Virginia prison and that John died in Monroe, MI.

John Vincent of 1811, was the son of George Vincent & Mary Higgins and remember in an earlier post I wrote of Uncle John who went to Ireland to study shoemaking - well this is the fella!  

He married an Irish girl by the name of Mary Ann Addy and they arrived in Saint John, NB on the Barque Rebecca, on the 4th of Jul, 1838  Bark Rebecca 

Given all the documents indicate that their children were born in Nova Scotia, it appears they married in NS and took the family to Ireland. 

In 1850, John and his clan sailed out of Windsor, NS aboard the Brig 'Brilliant' for Michigan.

John died in 1891, Mary in 1899 and they were buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Monroe, MI

courtesy of Lo Marie

Monroe Democrat, Thurs, 31 Dec 1891
Died Vincent - John Vincent, an old and highly respected citizen died Sunday after a short illness with la grippe, at his residence at the corner of Second and Harrison Streets. Mr. Vincent was born in Kingston County, Canada 1811. At an early age he and two brothers went to Ireland to live where they remained a short time. Afterwards moved to Nova Scotia where he was engaged in manufacturing boots and shoes and operating a tannery. In 1850 he came to Monroe where he has since lived. At one time he carried on a grocery business in this city. He was a man of unquestionable integrity and enjoyed the confidence and respect of a large circle of friends. He leaves a widow and one daughter, Mrs. Forbs, of Chicago, to mourn his death. Funeral services were conducted at the residence Tuesday afternoon by Rev. Wm. B. Pope.

courtesy of Janice Hollandsworth

The son who died of smallpox was Thomas Vincent born abt 1833 in Nova Scotia.  He was serving for the Union during the Civil War, 22nd Michigan Infantry, Co 1, when he was captured and imprisoned in Virginia and died while he was a POW