VAUGHAN, ETC N EW S L E T T ER
November 1989
EDITOR; Verna Baker Banes
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ARLINA MOSS, 110 Harvey St. Punta Gorda, FL 33950 sent wills of Northampton Co NC
which I have transcribed.These are (with heirs and other names):
WILLIAM VAUGHAN, 1779. wife JEAN. Sons JOHN & FREDERICK. Wit: THOS LOW,
JESSE WEBB. WILLIAM VAUGHAN, 1793. wife SARAH. Children: MARY CRISSENBURY,
ELIZABETH RAWLS, THOMAS, JEREMIAH , MILLEY COLLIER, WILLIAM, NANCY
PATIENCE, CATHERINE, JANE.
THOMAS VAUGHAN, 1796. wife MARTHA. Son JOHN and other unnamed children.
Executors & Sureties: WILLIE, ELLIOTT, ETHELRED FUTRELL, & ABRAHAM NELSON.
SALLY VAUGHAN, 1842. Sister FRANCES PARKER. Nieces/Nephews: JOHN, JAMES,
PHOEBE & CATHERINE PARKER; ANDREW JACKSON BEND(?); S.E. EVANS &
husband JOSEPH.Also MARY ROBERTS MURPHY and JOHN RANDOLPH, WILLIAM
BARROW, DANL ELLIS.
JOHN VAUGHAN, 1812. wife MARY. Son-in-laws AZARNABE(?) JOHNSTON & ASUM
POWELL.THOMAS, JOHN, HILLNEY, LYDIA, ELIZABETH VAUGHAN (children?).
Others: JOHNSTON VAUGHAN, WILLIE FUTRILL.
CHARLOTTE VAUGHAN, 1852. Son ELIAS H. Witness: WM. BOONE, SILAS EDWARDS
Arlina also included a list of Warren Co NC Mills:
Devisor BURMELL. Devisee: POLLY VAUGHAN. Bk 30, p 167, 1827.
Devisor W.T. VAUGHAN. Devisee: ELIZABETH, JAMES M., PEYTON, JAMES M.,
JOHN J. VAUGHAN, and MARTHA ANN PEGRAM. Bk 50, p 236, 1867.
Devisor MARTHA E.R. VAUGHAN. Devisee: NANCY F. & WILLIAM W. PERRELL;
JAMES S., NANCY B., MARTHA 0. and JOHN B. JONES. Bk 51, p. 42, 1872.
ALIEN GARTON, 3303 Madison, Des Homes, IA 50310 has information on births, deaths, tax
lists, etc., in Wayne County, KY.
WILLIAM R. VAUGHN, 2723 Wyoming, St. Louis. HO 63118 sent:Civil War Service record
for JEROME VAUGHN, joined 1861 48 Regt Illinois Inf. Died of wounds received in action Dallas,
GA 5 June 1864. Civil Mar Pension for JOHN M. VAUGHN, enlisted Army of the US, 1862,
Illinois Inf. Volunteers. Died 1900, Mayne Co IL. 5 wives: SARAH KING, JENNICE GIBSON,
JANEY JACKSON, MARY TRUBALL/TRABALL, RACHEL HULL/HALEY.
Biography of WILLIAM JOHN VAUGHN, b. 1832, Bedford Co TN to HERROD & SARAH
VAUGHN. He married NANCY ANN MARR, d/o SAMUEL and ZELPHA MARR.
JO GREGORY SPEARS, P.O. Box 14345. Raleigh, NC 27620 continues trying to identify "her"
WILLIAM VAUGHAN.Could these two Williams be the same?
MILL of WILLIAM VAUGHAN, 1838, Charlotte Co VA WB 8:99, names son WILLIAM
VAUGHAN and dau SARAH FEATHERSTONE, w/o MILLIAM FEATHERSTONE. She
wonders if he could be the same Milliam who made a pension application at Charlotte Court
1830, aged about eighty years.Could this Milliam be the father of ASHLEY VAUGHAN who
m. JANE GREGORY, 1807?
LEGENDARY JONES VAUGHAN by Frances Bednar and Verna Banes
Shortly before my uncle ROBERT MILLIS VAUGHAN'S death in 1976, his daughter FAY
MILLS helped him record on tape some of his family memories. One story he told was about
a relative JONES VAUGHAN who was a buffalo hunter, so I put a note in the genealogy column
of the DALLAS NEWS Newspaper about him because I knew his parents (WILLIAM C. &
MARY ANN CHESNUTT VAUGHAN) had lived in Cooke County TX in the 1870's. A
response came from FRANCES BEONAR of Dallas who knew about this colorful person.
Her father had known Jones well and loved to relate stories about him.
With these clues, Frances and I were able to share much family history. She wrote that Jones
was involved in buffalo hunting, then turned to prospecting for gold. He also found a valuable
sulphur deposit. Sometime in the period 1865-1910 he went to New York City, lost his fortune
on Wall Street, married and had a son. He never lived with his wife and none of the relatives
ever saw her or the child. He also went to South America, but returned to the Southwest, staking
out mineral claims in the names of all his relatives. He died 1910 in Cisco, TX.
Does anyone else know about this man and his gold prospector uncle ALPH VAUGHAN?
This is a good example of the value of sharing family legends and "wild stories."
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