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Surname: VINCENT
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In response to Shirley Stewart's query, here's some VINCENT information....
The Chesterton Newspaper index by John Allred contains two citations for
the VINCENT surname:
December 10, 1885 - Chesterton Tribune, C.A. VINCENT - Notice of Dissolution.
No longer in business with M.B. Pearce.
April 14, 1887 - Chesterton Tribune, Girl VINCENT - birth, girl to Charley.
Listed under the "Valpo" section of paper.
CITATION FOR THE NEWSPAPER INDEX:
ALLRED, John (1989), Chesterton Newspapers: 26 October 1882 - 26 December
1890, Volume I, Valparaiso, Indiana:
Valparaiso Public Library. 312 pp.
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Fourteen VINCENT tombstones located in northern one-half of Porter County:
[1] VINCENT, Alma wife of Earl 12/06/1904 - 7/31/1977 (Chesterton Cemetery)
[2] VINCENT, Earl T. 1910 - 1985 Pac US Army WWII vet (Chesterton Cemetery;
buried adjacent to Grace)
[3] VINCENT, Grace wife of Earl 1896 - 1958 (Chesterton Cemetery; buried
adjacent to Earl)
[4] VINCENT, Reed 9/07/1804 - 12/11/1877 73y, 3m, 4d born in Duchess Co.
Died in Niles, MI (Union Street/Old City Cemetery, Valparaiso; buried adjacent
to Hannah VINCENT; two graves exist immediately next to Reed's tombstone
that are unidentified - one for an infant (unreadable) and one with a missing
stone)
[5] VINCENT, Hannah A. (BUEL) wife of Reed 5/20/1820 - 7/16/1884 64y, 1m,
26d Born in Washington Co., MD (Union Street/Old City Cemetery, Valparaiso;
buried adjacent to Reed VINCENT)
[6] VINCENT, Ella 12/09/1884 - 4/17/1971 (Graceland Cemetery, Valparaiso;
buried next to Cora, James, and Abbie)
[7] VINCENT, Cora 7/14/1883 - 2/07/1965 (Graceland Cemetery, Valparaiso;
buried next to Ella, James, and Abbie)
[8] VINCENT, James father 1850 - 1914 (Graceland Cemetery, Valparaiso;
buried next to Ella, Cora, and Abbie)
[9] VINCENT, Abbie his wife mother 1853 - 1917 (Graceland Cemetery; buried
next to Ella, Cora, and James)
[10] VINCENT, Mary (WOOD) 1840 - 1930 born in Deep River, IN (Graceland
Cemetery, Valparaiso; buried next to Alonzo W. VINCENT)
[11] VINCENT, Alonzo W. MD 1839 - 1916 born in Milan, OH (Graceland Cemetery,
Valparaiso; buried next to Mary Wood VINCENT)
[12] NESBIT, Alice (VINCENT) 1872 - 1951 born in Deep River, IN DAR (Graceland
Cemetery, Valparaiso; buried next to Alonzo and Mary VINCENT and Otis B.
NESBIT MD 1871-1952, who was born in Severance, KS)
[13] VINCENT, Marie 1929 - no death date (Graceland Cemetery, Valparaiso;
tombstone located adjacent to Charles E. VINCENT)
[14] VINCENT, Charles E. 1950 - no death date (Graceland Cemetery, Valparaiso;
tombstone located adjacent Marie VINCENT
Link: Shook - Silvernale Genealogy
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