VAUGHAN, ETC NEWSLETTER
January 1986
EDITOR: Verna Baker Banes
Page 66
VAUGHAN-VAUGHN
Jeremiah Vaughn was born ca 1829 and married Margaret Ann Davis, ca 1848. They are listed in the 1850 census
in Macon County, Tennessee with an infant son William A., 8 months old. In the 1860 census, they are in Putnam
County, Tennessee with sons William, James, 7; George, 4; John, 2. This family was in Overton County, Tennessee
in the late 1870's. In the late 80's, several members of the Jeremiah Vaughn family traveled to Bowling Green,
Kentucky. From there, they traveled by train to Bonham, Fannin County, Texas and joined James H. (Jim) Vaughn.
A son, Tom, and a daughter, known only as 'Sis' evidently remained in Tennessee as family tradition says that Jeremiah returned to visit with them and died in Tennessee ca 1907.
The Vaughns were a very clannish family. When moves were made, several families moved and so it was from Tennessee
to Fannin, Hopkins and Hunt Counties in Texas and later on to Wilbarger County in west Texas.
Children of Jeremiah and Margaret Ann Davis Vaughn:
(1) William (born ca 1849) married Martha Presley and they had a daughter, Mary Elizabeth who was born in Overton
County, Tennessee on April 2 1868. Other children believed to be of this union are:
Jerry; Bud; George; and Sallie. William married Cora (last name not known) and had several more children including
Minnie (born in 1898) and Grover (born in 1900). Other children of this union are possibly: Jim; Tommy; Jess; Elmer;
Odie; Dora; Daisy; Betty and Margaret. In the 1900 census of Fannin County, Texas, William's father, Jeremiah is
listed as widowed (Margaret Ann, his wife is NOT dead at this time).
(2) James Henry (Jim) Vaughn married (1) Rhoda Sevier and had sons Edgar D (born 30 May 1875); Elbert Lee (born
3 Oct 1877) in Overton County, Tennessee and Esley. Married (2) Emly J. (Jennie) Paris and had daughters Fannie
(born Sept 1885 in Kentucky), Mollie A. and Willie Lee (twins born 8 Dec 1888 in Texas). Married (3) Emma Leander
Dillard Moss. To this union was born: Gilbert, Henry, Lonnie, William, Riley, Wesley, Earl and Lora. Jim Vaughn
was an organizing member of the Gober Baptist Church, of Gober, Fannin County, Texas. This church was organized
August 4, 1889. In the early church history, J.H. Vaughn is named from the years 1889 to 1893 and served as Deacon,
Church Clerk and on the Building Committee in 1892. Other Vaughns who were organizing members were: J.M.
Vaughn, Sr. and Mrs. M.J. Vaughn. Jim was in Hopkins County, Texas in the 1900 census and by 1910, he and his
family had moved to Wilbarger County, Texas. He died there in 1936 and is buried in Vernon, Texas.
(3) George Washington Vaughn was married to Mary Savage. He and Mary and three small daughters, Alice, Collie
and Elizabeth came to Fannin County, Texas with his parents, Jeremiah and Margaret Ann Vaughn, brother Frank
and Hattie, his sister. George's mother, Margaret Ann Davis Vaughn made her home with him and his family. She
is listed in the 1900 Hunt County, Texas census as having been married 53 yrs. with 8 living children of 11 that she
had born to her. (A question is posed at this time; why was she with one son and her husband with another?)
George and Mary Savage Vaughn are buried at Shiloh, Delta, Texas.
MARTHA J. HARTLEY, 10704 Seagoville Rd., Dallas, TX 75217
FAMILY SHEET
William VAUGHAN Mary Catherine VERNON
b. 8 Oct 1816, VA b. 15 Oct 1826, TN
Married: 24 Apr 150 Williamson Co TN
d. 07 Jul 1888, Manor, Travis Co TX d. 30 Jul 1887, Manor, Travis Co TX
cem Manor Cemetery cem Manor Cemetery
Father: Richard VAUGHAN
CHILDREN:
1 F Ophelia Adelle, b. 06 Sep 1853, TN; d. 21 Mar 1927, Manor, Travis Co TX; buried at Manor Cemetery.
Married William George HOUSE/HOWSE ca 1880, Manor, Travis Co TX
2 M Bill, b. 1855; d. 16 Apr 1923, Manor, Travis Co, TX; buried at Manor Cemetery.
3 M Sam Walker, b. 12 Sep 1865, TN; d. 12 May 1916, Manor, Travis Co TX; buried at Manor Cemetery.
4 M Jim, b. 1864, TN; d. 19 Feb 1916, Manor, Travis Co TX; buried at Manor Cemetery.
5 M Joe H.
6 F Susie
DOCUMENTATION: 1850 & 1860 Rutherford Co TN census. 1880 Travis Co TX census.
LOUISE E.D. LANDON, 9 Crescent Dr, Georgetown, MA 01833 sent the above family sheet. By family tradition,
Ophelia Vaughan was descended from one of the five "civilized" Indian tribes. Louise's mother-in-law, who has a
quilt made by Ophelia, says that her grandma was a Choctaw. Other data found on tombstone in the Manor
Cemetery: Joe H. Vaughan, 11 Jan 1824 - 17 Sep 1851 Does not seem related to the above family.
L.M. Boyd
Q. Tracers of British family trees say they can't go back farther than 1066. Why not?
A. After the Battle of Hastings, then William the Conqueror ordered every man in the kingdom to select any
surname. For a while there, a father named John Smith might have had three sons named Edward Farmer,
Matthew Cook and Arthur Hunter.
If you have any questions, suggestions, corrections, and/or additional information contact me,
Linda CONAWAY Welden at:
Linda_Welden@Vaughan-Vaughn.org
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