08/31/1850: Vincent L. Witcher Died.
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Died, in Pettis County, Missouri, on the 24th instant (July 24, 1850), Vincent Lewis, only child of William A. and Evelyn E. Witcher. The deceased was 2 years, 6 months, and 6 days old. He was regarded by all who know him as a child of surpassing sprightliness and promise; and to his parents the bereavement will be a sad and irreparable one. (Researcher's note: The 1850 Platte County Census indicates William A. Witcher was a 28 year old lawyer and editor from Virginia who lived in Weston, Missouri. He was married to Evelyn E. Witcher, 23 years old from Kentucky. The census also indicates they had a 2-year old son named Vincent L. Witcher. The 1850 Platte County Slave Schedules indicates 2-year old Vincent L. Witcher had owned a 12-year old Black male slave on August 11, 1850. On the day the obituary was published, August 31, 1850, William A. Witcher was the editor and co-publisher of The Weston Reporter along with Samuel J. Finch. The Weston Reporter's offices were in Weston, Missouri. Paxton's Annals p. 237, says paper was sold in May 1857 to A. W. King. William A. Witcher had married Evelyn Witcher nee' Major on April 27, 1847, in Pettis County, Missouri. Sometime between 1853 and 1860 Witcher left his family and moved back to Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Evelyn and her sons, John and Vincent, stayed in Missouri and lived with her brother John and his family in Pettis County, Missouri. Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Witcher-488)Collection
Newspaper ArticlesCategory
The Weston Reporter (Weston, MO, 1850-1850): 08/31/1850, p. 3