Death Date: December 28,1966

Arthur Ward Vincent,83,Dies in South

Arthur W.Vincent,83,of Orlando,Florida,formerly of Jefferson county,died at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Orlando General Hospital,Orlando,Fla.,where he had been a patient three weeks and had undergone surgery.
The body will arrive by plane in Syracuse today at 4:10 p.m. and be brought to the Johnson funeral home,Dexter.
The funeral will be Monday at 2:00 p.m. at the Johnson funeral home. Burial in the spring will be in Depauville cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Surviving are his wife,Mrs. Marjorie Halliday Vincent;a daughter,Mrs. Leon (Grace M.) Dickinson,Orlando,with whom they lived;two sons:Charles L.,Tucson,Ariz.,and Ross A. ,Adams Center;a brother, Otto,Three Mile Bay; ten grandchildren,and 14 great-grandchildren.
Two sisters,Mrs.Blanche Hayes and Mrs. Ella Littlefield;three brothers Lansing, Everett (Skip) and L. Seaton who died last Jan.5,and a half-brother,Dr. Waterman A. Vincent ,and a half-sister,Mrs.Irene (Ida) Phillips, are dead. A son Everett,12,was accidentally electrocuted in 1929.
Mr. Vincent was born in the town of Clayton,Aug.11,1883,a son of Leonard and Clara Ross Vincent. He spent his early life near LaFargeville.
On June 23,1905(misprint correct date on marriage licence is June 14,1905) he married Miss Marjorie Halliday of Wolfe Island,there.
They lived at the Vincent homestead during their early married life.Mr. Vincent worked at the Dexter Sulphite mill before operating farms in various communities in Jefferson county,including Rice and Woodville and last at Camps Mills.They also had lived at Brownville with their daughter at one time.
In 1947,Mr. and Mrs. Vincent drove to Alaska,with a trailer,and stayed there until 1950,when they came to Evans Mills. They lived there until 1956 when they moved to Florida.

Note: He was one of 10 children of Leonard and Clara Ross Vincent. Not mention in Obit was sister Christina (Tina)and brothers Berne and Grover who died years before. Also his daughter and family, Grace and Leon Dickinson with two small girls Nancy and Thelma(myself) in 1947 drove to Alaska, where his son Charles lived.
Death was due to Carcenoma of the Sigmoid colon,Cardiac failure and overwhelming toxcity.