Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Vincent, William H., 1919 

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WILLIAM HENRY VINCENT

  As we go to press we hear with profound sorrow of the death at his home in 
Capron last night of Mr. W.H. Vincent, one of our county's most prominent and 
useful citizens.  He had been a resident of Southampton for a number of years, 
moving to this county from Maryland and he had been a leader in his community, 
in all matters affecting moral welfare and was one of the strongest laymen in 
the Virginia Conference of the M.E. Church South.  We understand that his 
funeral will be held in Capron Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.  People from all 
parts of the state were present to pay their last respects to this Godly man, 
in fact it was the largest crowd that has ever been known to assemble in 
Capron.  The many, many floral designs were beautiful.  But they were only 
small tokens of appreciation considering what his life meant to our little 
town and community.  His many friends and loved ones will miss him, and it was 
indeed hard for them to give him up, but we know that he has gone to dwell 
forever in the mansion prepared by God for his disciples.  We extend to his 
beloved wife our deepest sympathy. 

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W.H. VINCENT IS CLAIMED BY DEATH

Prominent Capron Man One of County’s Leaders in all Moral and Public Welfare 
Movements - Honored Member of Virginia M.E. Conference.

   W.H. Vincent, a prominent lumberman of Capron, died January 9th of kidney 
trouble from the effects of which he had suffered several years.

   He was a man of sterling qualities, positive in his view and loyal to his 
church. No one know better than he the joy that comes from true service - not 
with the heart and the whole life.

   Mr. Vincent had a strong love for little children and was one of two men 
who established the Virginia Conference Orphanage.  He was the president of 
the Board of Trustees of that institution and always contributed liberally to 
its needs.  He was prominent in all social reforms as well as the temperance 
and prohibition movements throughout the State.

   He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Randolph-Macon College, of 
Blackstone College and the State Norman School at Farmville, and one of the 
directors of the Richmond Virginian.  He was personally interested in both 
home and foreign missions and made large gifts to the mission boards of his 
church.  He was also a most liberal contributor to the Virginia Anti-Saloon 
League and a member of its executive committee.  During the period of the war 
he contributed largely to the Red Cross, the Y.M.C.A. and all other war 
activities and charitable causes.  He was a delegate to the General Conference 
of the M.E. Church south a number of times; was a member of the Annual 
conference and lay leader of the District Conference.  In his home town he was 
the source of every good movement, the founder of the Capron M.E. Church, the 
superintendent of the Sunday school since its organization and a charter 
member of the Epworth League.  He was president of the Bank of Capron and the 
Capron Box Company and was largely connected with a number of industries 
throughout the State.

   He was doing so much good and he had so much good and he had so much yet to 
do that his taking away seems to us a great mystery, the solving of which we 
must leave to God’s good time.  In doing the work of the Master has taken him 
into a larger realm of truth and a broader field of love.  Memory will mark 
the print of every one of his footsteps, blossoming with the flowers of virtue 
and purity; it will echo his every work of kindness and will cherish his every 
act of tenderness and of love.

   Mr. Vincent, though a native of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, had spent a 
long life since early boyhood in Virginia.  When he grew up he became 
interested in the lumber business and gained a wide acquaintance and universal 
respect and esteem of the heads of the lumber interests along the Atlantic 
Coast.  In all his enterprises his dealings were characterized by the utmost 
fairness and through the many years of his active service he gained a friend 
ever time he made a new acquaintance.

   In the year 1882 he married Miss Sarah Elizabeth Carey of Salisbury, Md. 
and truly their home was interwoven with all that made for purity, happiness 
and contentment.  Besides his widow he leaves an adopted daughter, Mrs. E.E. 
Rawlings; four brothers and five sisters; Mrs. Elizabeth Lankford, and Mrs. 
E.P. Downing of Salisbury, Md., Mrs. F.E. Williams of Capron, Mrs. F.J. 
Bounds, Mrs. J.I. Wyche and C.P. Vincent of Weldon, N.C., J.E. Vincent of 
Suffolk, G.L. Vincent of Emporia and L.E. Vincent of Washington, D.C.  He also 
leaves many nieces and nephews who were devoted to him.

   The funeral services were held Sunday morning at 11 o’clock in the Capron 
M.E. Church conducted by the Rev. J.T. Mastin, Rev. A.B. Sharpe and Rev. W.H. 
Riddick.  The special music rendered during the services we conducted by Rev. 
W.L. Burks and his choir of the Courtland M.E. Church and the beautiful 
selections given formed a fitting requiem for the passing of our esteemed 
friend.  His body was laid to rest in the town cemetery and the mound was 
covered with many beautiful floral designs.

   The active pallbearers were J.E. Vincent, L.E. Vincent, C.P. Vincent, 
E.P. Downing, J.I. Wyche, G.A. Lankford, H.V. Bounds and G.L. Vincent, Jr., 
the honorary pallbearers were L.J. Bain. J.R. Barham, E.P. Barham, W.P. 
Gillette, R.W. Warthan, G.B. Smith, T.W. Story, W.S. Bell, E. Frank Story, Dr. 
W. T. McLemore, H.B. McLemore, Geo. Adams, W.J. Story, J.B. Porter, J.L. Camp, 
P.D. Camp, Ryland Camp, E.W. Crichton, Paul Ellis, Dr. J.N. Applewhite, J.T. 
Gillette, W.T. Pace, J.S. Musgrave, W.D. Reese, G.W. Burgess, C.L. Grizzard, 
General C.C. Vaughan, E. Whitfield.


William Henry VINCENT, lumberman & civic activist, 
b. MD, d. 9 Jan 1919, at home, Capron, age 59, 
interred in Capron Cemetery*, 12 Jan 1919, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 10, 1919; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 17, 1919 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Capron list (C-43): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/capron.txt 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Sep. 21, 1928, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/v525s1ob.txt 


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