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A CHRONOLOGY OF THE VAUGHANS BY JUANITA VAUGHAN
Submitted by Betty J. Blake, Rt 2, Box 236, Chuckey, TM 37641
Abridged by Verna Banes

This is the story as I have neard it, some of it documented, and some handed down by word of
 mouth,.  Anyone who knows a Vaughan knows words come pretty easy.

JOSHUA VAUGHAN was the son of an Irish immigrant and a Chickamauga, of the Cherokee
tribe.  He was one of 24 children-  About half of these were Irish; and the others were half Irish
and half Indian.  Joshua married SYLVA STEVENS who must have lived in NC at some time. 
She knew Daniel Boone and his family.  She was in sympathy with, his family because Boone left
them at the homestead while he was trail blazing.  Some of Joshua & Sylva's several children wera
JOHN,  MARY,  HIRIAM, and  GEORGE.  George, who was fair with reddish brown hair,
claimed he was no part Indian.  My Grandma (NANCY SETSER VAUGHAN, wife of George)
said when she went to his home some time after they were married, she found out the truth.  She
said Mary looked just like the Indian Grandmother, and waa very proud to say she was 1/4 Indian, 
Grandma met the Indian Grandmother and learned to love her.  She told of watching her comb her
long black hair which hung well below the waist.  Grandma learned from this Grandmother about
herbs and gathering them to make medicine.  She could make a cough syrup that did my bronchitis
more good than any I've received from a doctor.  These Vaughans owned land around what is now
Harlan, KY.     Due to the unrest near the beginning of the Civil War, they moved to Hawkins Co
TN, near the VA line

HUSTON SETSER was of German Dutch descent.  He and a brother took up land in Clay Co KY. 
Huston married MARY YEARY. The land owned by these brothers was around Burning Springs. 
Grandma said when she was a little girl she would tell other children she could make water burn, then
set the spring on fire, then the men would have to come to put it out. There was natural gas in the
spring.  Huston 'Setser died ca 1870.  Soon after his death Mary sold his holdings to his brother and
moved her children NANCY, MARTHA, & HENRY to Northeast TN or Southwest VA.  She later
 married JOHN VAUGHAN.  Later her daughter Nancy married GEORGE VAUGHAN, brother
of  JOHN.

JOHN & Mary's children were LEWIS, BETTY, 6 others whose names I don't remember, George
and Nancy had ten children.  LOUDEMIA and WILEY were born in Scott Co VA. (Juanita, who
told this story, was the daughter of Wiley.} Later the family moved from VA to Greene Co TN. Other
childen were JOHN, EXLONIA & twin boys named HUSTON and JOSHUA.  The twins didn't live
long, one about three months and the other about a year.  After the twins there were BUENA, 
RACHEL,  MAE, &  AVON.

GEORGE & NANCY moved to the Caney Creek community some time in the late 1800'a, .He was
working at a sawmill when a steam engine exploded and burned him badly.  He later developed spinal
menigitis and died 22 Oct 1895, and is buried in the New Lebonan Cemetery at Los Mountain.

After Grandpa died. Grandma got an offer to go west with a family of friends who were going in a
covered wagon.  She decided against this and bought a piece of ground farther up on the mountain. 
I guess there was a house raising; anyway there was a little log house where she raised eight children.

BETTY, who sent this story, is not personally acquainted with Juanita Vaughan; but Juanita's aunt,
now deceased, once lived near Betty's parents and claimed to be distantly related to Betty's mother,
although she did not know the connection.  Betty beliaves that JOSHUA VAUGHAN is probably
related to her WILLIAM VAUGHAN (see January 1936 Newsletter, p.3).  Their families lived near
one another in East TN.  In both families there were many people with reddish-brown or sandy hair,
fair skin. and lots or freckles.  Juanita Vaughan also claims an Indian ancestor, so maybe this is part
o£ the William Vaughan, Fair-a-See Lunah/Fereby Benton line??  Other issues of the Newsletter have
a lot of material on these families.


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