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Vincent Harvey

Born: 1897
Vincent married a miss Moffat. They had one child, namely Ralph. Shortly after Ralph's birth his mother died. Shortly thereafter, Vincent asked his brother, Ernest to put down his dog which was mangy. Ernest agreed to do it with a shotgun. The shotgun had no trigger guard and, on crawling through a fence to go and do the deed, the trigger hooked on a wire strand and a shot went off wounding Vincent in his upper leg. Vincent died within an hour of gas gangrene. The writer remembers hearing that the young Ralph was raised by his maternal grandparents.