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Oyer Vincent
Oyer Vincent
Sadly, I know almost nothing about my great-uncle Oyer Vincent. None of my uncles or aunts ever mentioned him except to say that he's buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Talladega, Alabama in the same family plot as his parents and brother Oakley.
Oyer didn't live long enough to marry and have a family. He was born on the 3rd of Oct. 1866, less than a year and a half following the end of the American Civil War. There are 3 years difference between him and Margaret's oldest child which indicates the approximate time that Oyer's father, Aaron Vincent (1835-1901) was away at war.
Oyer's father died on Thursday, the 7th of February 1901 and Oyer died exactly 4 weeks later on Thursday, the 7th of March, 1901. I have always assumed there must have been some illness going around that took their lives because Oyer's mom, Margaret Missouri Finch Vincent, buried her mother, Lucinda Canady Finch the day after she buried her son Oyer, then buried her husband the following month.
I've searched for records of an epidemic that year but found nothing. Still, 3 people dead in the same family within 4 weeks of each other must mean something was going around. Alabama kept some records of deaths back then but they did not require death certificates at the time.
Oyer was only 34 years old when he died. That was plenty old enough to be married but there's no evidence that he ever did. His nieces and nephews told me that he never married.
He is buried in the family plot. A large monument marks the graves of his father and Oyer but no one ever engraved the names of his mother or grandmother (Margaret's mom, Lucinda Finch) who are also buried there.
Here's Aaron, Margaret, Lucinda, and Oyer's grave maker. Needless to say, it needs to be pressure washed.
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