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Show UTAH'S OLDEST PAIR DIVIDED BY DEATH SPANISH FORK. Oct. ii James Vincent, :3 years of age. Ihe old. si man In Spanish Fork after an Illness in. Lii ni to old age, died at bis h m Monday evening. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at thp Fourth ward chapel. Mr. Vincent was born In Rachhea'ii Norfolk England. March, 1829. 'he SOU of William and Mary Am i cent. He was married to Man Holmes In October 1S4!. Tiny bad lived together as husband and wife for 73 yenrs and were the oldest married mar-ried couple in Ftah Mr. and Mrs Vincent emlgra.ed to JTah In 1 S64. They were si. months making the. Journey, Th, j crossed the plains with an ox team company m charge of John Kay Thej came directly to Spanish Fori and this had slnie be.-n their home. .Mr Vlncenl followed the occupal oi of farming and as uge Increased he took up gardening and floral culture During the Black Hawk Indian war h served as one of the home guards. He wa the father of nine children, three of whom survive him. The) are Mrs. Charlotte Shlngleton. Mrs Elizabeth Crump nnd Wtllard Vlncenl all of this city. He al8r. l survl-d I., h.s aged wife, twenty-five grandchildren grand-children and forty-four great-grand-I children. |