James Edwin Vincent & Nora O'Brien

James Edwin Vincent, the son of William Vincent & Jane Swan, was born at West New Annan, Nova Scotia in 1885.   

With a sense of adventure, he left home after 1901 and by 1910 he had landed in Massachusetts and was working at the mill.  In 1912, he married an English girl by the name of Nora O’Brien and they went on to have three children - Clifford, Phyllis and Eileen.  

James had a variety of jobs from working as an electrician at the mill to being a teamster at the milk company. Without knowing the family, it is hard to say what drew the family to Brattleboro, VT but by 1930 they had settled in and James was working as a stockman at a wholesale shoe company.  

Nora died in 1940 and James in 1961.  Clifford married a girl named Arline Rogers, had two children and they lived in Massachusetts.  Eileen married Archibald Augustus, had one child then married Earl Jaycox and had 2 more children – she lived in Massachusetts as well but died in Connecticut.  Phyllis never married.

I did find the following year book picture of Cliff and Phyl and it looks like Eileen was in the drama club. 

Unknown Nova Scotia Paper - 1962
PHYLLIS VINCENT - West New Annan - Miss Phyllis Vincent, 48, of Battleboro, Vermont, died recently at Hanover Hospital, New Hampshire.  Born at Battleboro, she was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James E. Vincent, formerly of West New Annan.  Often a visitor to New Annan, she was well known for her amateur photography.  Besides her sister, she is survived by one brother.  Interment was at Battleboro, Vermont.