DAVID VINCENT, Sr. -- 16th INFANTRYDAVID VINCENT, Jr. -- 96th INFANTRYFATHER AND SON GO TO WAR -- David Vincent, Sr. was born in Suffolk, England in 1807, and came to New York with his extended family by way of Belfast in Northern Ireland. By 1838, his first son, David, Jr., was born in the Town of Clinton in 1838.The elder David enlisted in the 16th Infantry in April 1861 giving his age as 44, when he was really ten years older. Nevertheless, he spent almost his full term of 2 years with the regiment before being discharged for disability on March 18, 1863, at White Oak Church, VA.At the end of 1861, the younger David Vincent enlisted in the 96th Infantry, as Daniel Vincent, while the family was still living in Ellenburg. By this time, enlistments were for three years. He became ill while still at the barracks in Plattsburgh before they left for Washington. He died on June 2, 1862, and was buried in the Sheldon Hill Cemetery in Ellenburg Depot.The elder Vincent died in 1882 and was buried near his son.
