Sunday 2 July 2017

Vincent - Nelson - Soden



This picture is from The Vincent Family, book put together in 1996 by Sheridan Vincent.  It is of James Angus Vincent, his wife Helen Augusta Richardson & their daughter Clara Maria Vincent.
courtesy of Dorothy McGregor Taylor - Find A Grave
At some point, James left Nova Scotia for foreign and exotic locales... like.... Wisconsin!  

There he met and married Helen and had a daughter Clara.   

Helen died in California in 1930 and James moved to Yakima where his daughter was with her husband; he died in 1939.



Clara met and married a Danish boy named Edwin Robert Nelson while in Wisconsin and they had 4 children - Harriet, Henrietta, Helen, and Edwin Jr.

Harriet married John George Soden Jr in Yakima and had 2 boys.

courtesy of Paul Lee - Ancestry
Unknown Paper
John Soden Jr, 49, Dies Following Short Illness
John G Soden Jr, 49, a Yakima resident for the past 40 years died in Yakima Memorial Hospital Tuesday night after a short illness.  Mr Soden was born in Sprague Wash and moved to Yakima as a youth.  He attended grade and high school in Yakima.  He made his home at 208 N 27th Ave Yakima.  In earlier years he was in the meat cutting business with other members of his family.  He went into wheat ranching in Sprague later and then returned to Yakima two years ago to re-enter the meat business.  He was a member of the Yakima Elks Lodge and the Meat Cutters and Butchers Union, Local 529.  Survivors include his wife, Harriet; two sons, James M Soden a professor at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, and John P Soden, Walla Walla; a brother, Dewey, Yakima; four sisters, Mrs Agnes Wirsching, Olympia, Mrs Steve Studer, Tacoma, Mrs Elizabeth Love, Los Altos, Calif, and Mrs Florette Kinchelo, Loomis, Wash.  Shaw and Sons Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.


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