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Up in the woods on the nose-like promontory which slopes down between Second Creek and Bylew to the eastern shore of Nolin, Reuben VIncent and his little daughter, Dicey, came to a halt at the turkey pen. The old pioneer had built it day before on the upland above his cabin home. It was some ten feet square, about three feet high, built up of poles and covered with other poles well weighted down with logs. A trench large enough to admit a turkey had been dug under one side and overlaid with a clapboard just inside the pen so that the big bird could easily find his way along the corn baited trench into the trap but would not burrow down under the clapboard to make his escape.
The little girl clapper her hands and thrilled with delight as they viewed the two enormous gobbler all cooped in. The proud father made an opening and, entering the pen, handed one of the big turkeys to his little daughter. She seized it proudly by its fee; but as it flapped and tugged with its great wings n the air, it proved almost too much for the little maiden. At each stroke of its wings it lifted her off the ground; but her weight was a little too much for it to carry away through the tree tops, and the brave little daughter of the backwoods held on with might and main until the man relieved her of it and wrung off its head.
Then he took the other gobbler from the per; rarely did the hearts of father and child beat more proudly than did theirs as they wended their way with their turkey a piece back down through the forest to their home on the hill.

After his father, James, died of influenza, circa 1826, Reuben and his wife Easter Saling moved their family to Edmonson Co., KY. His brother, John, also moved his family.
Rueben and Easter are buried in Mammoth Cave National Park, on the old Hub Webb farm, where they moved from Grassland, shortly before their deaths. To get to their gravesite, one must put a boat in Nolin River at old Kyrock, go down past the first creek and up a river bottom, to a slight hill, where some remains of the old log house used to be. Other graves can also be found in this same family cemetery.
SOURCE: http://members.aol.com/wmrvincent/genealogy/ahnentafel/AT01/AT01_003.htm#P183
eight of the children were born in Jackson co, Tn, the other six were born in Edmonson Co, Ky.
Ruben and John came to Edmonson Co , Ky with their families about 1830 and settled on Bear Creek . They worked in the saw mill and grist mill business. Ruben did receive a notice in 1831 to appear in court and explain why they did not pay Thier taxes the year before . Ruben and Easter were on the roll of the Old Holly Springs Baptist Church on Indian Creek in 1836.
This came from family paper found in Edmonson , Co library -author unknown .


From History of Holly Springs Baptist Church
(Edmonson County, Kentucky)
In a letter written by Meredith York (Merd) Vincent, he stated that.
. "his grandfather and grandmother, Rubin and Easter Salings Vincent were borned again, joining the church at Holly Springs on Indian Creek and were baptized at the ford in Nolin River in 1836."

Birth	Abt 1790	South Carolina, United States
Marriage	1815	Jackson, Tennessee, United States - Easter Ann "Esther" Saling
Residence	1836	Edmonson, Kentucky, United States
Census (family)	1850	Edmonson, Kentucky, United States - Easter Ann "Esther" Saling
Census (family)	19 Jul 1860	Brownsville PO, Edmonson, Kentucky, United States - Easter Ann "Esther" Saling
Death	8 Dec 1874	Edmonson, Kentucky, United States

Spouse	Easter Ann "Esther" Saling (1796 - 1870)
Child	James Hayes Vincent (1816 - 1913)
Child	Nancy Vincent (1817 - 1848)
Child	William "Moncher" Vincent (1818 - 1908)
Child	Edith "Eady Eddie" Vincent (1818 - 1880)
Child	Mary Dinah "Diner" Vincent (1820 - 1913)
Child	Dicy West Vincent (1824 - 1913)
Child	Elizabeth "Betty" Vincent (1827 - 1899)
Child	Thomas John Vincent (1827 - 1900)
Child	John Peter Vincent (1829 - 1892)
Child	Jane Vincent (1830 - 1919)
Child	Jessee Garrett "Teeter" Vincent (1832 - 1903)
Child	Reuben Adam Vincent (1834 - 1915)
Child	Samuel Vincent (1840 - 1902)
Child	Shedrick Ditto Vincent (1842 - 1919)

Father	James "Jimmie" Vincent (1750 - 1826)
Mother	UNK First Wife ( - )
Sibling	John Vincent (1790 - )

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