I can’t recall if I’ve let kin know about all the photos of our Pawpaw Vincent (Oakley Vincent 1870-1955). I just posted a couple more so here they are.
These first two photos are the most recent. A 1950 of Oakley at Calera, Alabama:
http://mykinfolks.org/photos/Vincent_Photos/Vincent%20-%20Oakley%201950-05-30%20closeup.jpg
This is Oakley and Oma Seay Vincent taken at the same time:
http://mykinfolks.org/photos/Vincent_Photos/Vincent%20-%20Oakley%20and%20Oma%201950-05-30%20closeup.jpg
The remaining photos have been on the website a while. If you’ve already downloaded them, no need to do so again. Here’s the oldest, Oakley probably taken on or before 1906. Before he married he was the overseer of a plantation in Selma, Alabama. On the back, this photo mentions the Selma address:
http://mykinfolks.org/photos/Vincent_Photos/Vincent%20-%20Oakley2%20large.JPG
This is Oakley, Oma, and Aaron about 1908:
http://mykinfolks.org/photos/Vincent_Photos/Vincent%20-%20Oakley%20Oma%20&%20Aaron%201908a.JPG
I have no photos of Oakley between when he was a young man and when he was old. Here’s when he was maybe 75 years old:
http://mykinfolks.org/photos/Vincent_Photos/Vincent%20-%20Oakley%20about%20age%2075.jpg
This photo is a pencil drawing obviously created by a Camera Lucida from the 1906 photo. This was a technique used by artists to make a large portrait since only small photos were available until much later:
http://mykinfolks.org/photos/Vincent_Photos/Vincent%20-%20Oakley%20pencil%20drawing%20edit.jpg
Another photo of Oakley, date unknown:
http://mykinfolks.org/photos/Vincent_Photos/VINCENT%20-%20OAKLEY3.jpg
A final photo of Oakley taken at Calera, Alabama when his youngest son, Harry, was still in the Navy sometime between 1941 and 1945:
http://mykinfolks.org/photos/Vincent_Photos/VINCENT%20-%20OAKLEY%20AT%20CALERA.JPG
I hope you enjoyed these photos of my grandfather, D. Oakley Vincent. (<— for more on Oakley, click the link)
The last one he had a smile that looks like you daddy.
Your great-grandfather would smile at that. I never knew him that well but I’ve been told I have some of his habits. We all probably inherited our reflux from him and our insistence of separating our food on our plates so stuff doesn’t run together.