Edith Vincent

Great Balls of Fire, I am on a Roll!!!

From the beginning my 4x grandfather’s family has been a pain in the research behind – what with  changing their name, religion & origin...then compound that with moving around - oy!

I recently closed of John L Vincent’s wife and today, I closed off another family member – hooray!!

Edith M Vincent, daughter of John W Vincent & Mary Ann Rogers, left with her mother and a few siblings including John L and headed to Boston in 1900. 

In 1909, Edith married Franklin Levi Slade, son of Wilbur Levi Slade and Annie Beatrice Quimby – a descendant of the Slade Spice Co - I had them on the 1910-1930 censuses and then they disappeared.

Today I found Frank’s 1942 WWII draft card.  What made this so amazing was that it put him in Washington, DC and…..with a new wife Lillian!!

From there a bit of searching thru the old newspapers on Ancestry and voilà – her obit!! It ran in the Washington Post, 24 Apr 1941 

And it has given me clues to 2 of her siblings....

Off... I ... go ....

Dead End Resolution

Dead Ends.   

We all have them.   

That person who just dropped off the face of all the records...

lost.....

gone......

pooofff!

I found 3 of mine today!!

A while back I wrote about John Lemuel Vincent and his wife Maria Giles Henderson McRobie – she was the daughter of the inventor of the fire extinguisher from Manitoba.

I recently found Maria’s burial!  She was right under my nose the whole time along with her 2nd husband!

Maria had a nasty habit of using aliases and I thought I had found them all – Idella, Della, Mary – but – who would have thought Miriah?   

She and her new husband, Charles Reed, are buried at the Oak Grove Cemetery at Gloucester, Massachusetts! 

Many, many thanks to J Swift who added the memorials to Find A Grave!!

And, Maria and John had one surviving child, Alice Maude or Alice L and for years, she too was a dead end.  I last had her living with her mother in 1920 after divorcing her first husband John T Sheedy.  I had thought he had died because she indicated she was a widow......

BUT - Alice remarried a gent with a surname Locke, I think Frederick G Locke abt 10yrs or so her junior.  I was able to confirm this via the Obituary Daily Times Index!  Obit Index

Wish I could get a hand on that obit because it might answer more questions about her family but what a find!!  I closed off 2 more family members!!

Martime Hoteliers - Henry Flaiger & Mary Mason

Mary O Mason was the daughter of John Mason & Charlotte Arbuckle.  She married Henry Wentworth Flaiger around 1876 and had 8 children.

 

The Charlottetown Guardian, 11 Jun 1929

 What is missing from the obit is that Mary and Henry ran the "American Hotel" in Pictou

The Charlottetown Guardian, 9 May 1907

 

Jewelery Capital of the World - Joshua Stevens & Lydia Vincent

Attleboro, Massachusetts was once known as the “Jewelry Capital of the World” or Jewelry City.

Jewelry manufacturing in Attleboro began about 1780 and it continued to thrive.  Around 1964 there were about 163 shops employing about 130, 000 people - nearly half the population of the town -  making watches, chains, eye-glass frames, rings, buttons, rings and more. 

But what has this have to do with the Vincent lines? Work, and lots of it.  I don't know if this type of work is what attracted this line but it did mean that several remained given the sheer number of them working as jewelers... children, wives, children of children....

Joshua Stevens married a Lydia Vincent, the daughter of George Vincent & Mary Higgins.  She died in 1886 but it’s unclear if it was in Nova Scotia or Massachusetts; Joshua died in 1892 in North Attleboro.  Also, not all of their children headed to Massachusetts - of the 10, 6 of them can found in Attleboro at one time or another - many of them working as jewelers.

The censuses indicate that a few landed in the States in the mid 1880s but there are so many gaps I don't even know where to begin. There is no 1890 or 1900 census for them and only a couple of 1910s.  Quite a few of this line are dead ends.

I do believe that many, if not all, of the Attleboro Stevens clan will be found at the Mount Hope Cemetery in North Attleboro but to date, I haven’t been able to find any records to confirm this.

Then I stumbled across an article in the Jewelers' Circular, 18 May 1898 - it could explain the missing records and family members.......

But really, I don't know where the missing people are - did some return to Nova Scotia? Travel to other parts of the States?  It's a mystery.

Bit of History of the Jewlery Makers of Attleboro
Joshua & Lydia's Clan