The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-24
Fiction Fails to Paint More
Cruel Picture of Poverty
and Sorrow Than Now
Seen in John Vincent Home.
A WILLING FATHER HAS
BEEN UNABLE TO WORK
Misfortune of Every Kind Has
BeSet the Family and They
Have no Relatives to Which
They Can Appeal.
VINCENT FAMILY FUND.
The Palladium $40

The Palladium with the subscrip-
ton of ten dollars starts a fund for
the family of John Vincent at West
vile, just four miles east of Rich
mond and it is sincerely hoped that
others will respond until the amount
contributed reaches large sum.
The circumstances which call for
such fund could they be seen by all
the Palladium readers would no doubt
for the family. They became partially
known yesterday when Mrs. VINCENT
appeared at one of the local banks
to draw out the money which she had
on deposit there She said her four
year old son had died and she wanted
the money to help in burying him.
She was surprised and sadly disap-
pointed when the clerk in the bank
told her that there was but twenty
five cents to the family's credit on de-
post: The mother took the money
and left But she did not go home.
She could not think of returning to
Westville without some money with
which to bury her child She remain
ed in Richmond all day, going from
one store to another in an effort to
raise money. She got but nine dol
lars and in the evening, without hav-
ing eaten anything all day she left for
home with a heavy heart
Visit to Vincent Home.
Word that she had been in the city
reached the Palladium Office and a
representative of the Palladium went
to the Vincent home in Westville.
Here he found a story of suffering
as bad as fiction ever pictured. four
year old boy, curly headed and with
blue eyes lay dead. He had been the
hope of the family, child that the
fond mother had one day trusted
would enter the ministry. The two
other small tots at the home. leaned
on the knees of their father and
mourned the loss of their brother
while the parent could not be recon
ciIed and would not leave the side
of his little son.
Such scene might be found in
many a home but in few in this state |
would the family be without visible |
means for burying their child. Few in |
deed would there be where the par
help and find it. The circumstances |
here though are cruel and unusual
Nothing But Misfortune.
The Vincent family has not lived |
long in Westville going there in May.
They have had nothing but misfor-
tune since living there and Mrs. Vim
cent is anxious to have her child bur-
led at Mt. Washington, Ohio, near
Cincinnati, where her parents live.
The family feel that they must leave
WeStville and don't want their child
buried where they cannot go to put
flowers on his grave.
But there is no money with which
TO take the child TO Cincinnati for bur-
ial. Mr.. Vincent came TO Richmond
from Middletown, Ohio. ii the spring
and secured employment in one of the
local factories While at work he was
hit on the head by large pulley and
was incapacitated. The manager of
the factory thought little about the
matter and paid he injured man a
small amount The case was very Sc
rious, however. \ father unable to
work, heavy debts to pay, three chill
dren to support and no friends TO call
on is the situation which faced the
Vincent home all summer and this
fall. Mrs. Vincent picked berries at
the Kuth berry farm besides baking
bread for sale and doing what else
she could. Her husband though will
ing could not do much and the condi-
tion became worse and worse until
death took their favorite child. The
father walked to Richmond Monday
to get aid for his family and when he
returned home late in the evening.
unsuccessful in his mission. his son
was dead.
Relatives Also Poor
To make the case all the more
harsh, Mrs. Vincent can get no aid