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jevaughn.com is my personal family web site. It features information regarding the family of Anthony Wayne Vaughan in Eastern Kentucky and Western Virginia, and other descendants of the "Welsh Indian Trader" William Vaughan (1750-1840), along with links to other Vaughn-Vaughan family web sites. If you wish to communicate with me, please use the address below.
James Vaughan
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Jonesboro AR 72401
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Grandfather Anthony Wayne Vaughan was born in Wayne County, Virginia (now Cabell County, West Virginia) 17 October 1848. He was the seventh of ten children of James and Susannah Wilson Vaughan. In 1863, as a boy of 15, he worked with his father who was employed by the Union Army to care for horses at a federal post in South Point, Ohio, on the north side of the Ohio river. James' father, Thomas owned a sizeable farm, but he and his wife, Nancy Ford Vaughan, left most of their property to their son Thomas II. Around 1858, James and his wife relocated across the Big Sandy River in Lawrence County, Kentucky. It was from this location that James and his son Anthony Wayne commuted downriver to their work at the confluence of the Big Sandy and Ohio at South Point. On the 21st. of October 1871 in Carter County Kentucky, Anthony Wayne Vaughan married America McBrayer, the daughter of William McBrayer. America was born 31 March 1848. This union was blessed with thirteen children: Lou Ella (1872), Charles (1873), Ida (1875), Susan Jane (1876), Esther Ann (1878), Daisy (1879), my father James (1881), Allen Toby (1883), William M. (1885), Howard (1887), John (1889), Daniel Everett (1892), and Anthony Wayne II (1893). Pictured here around 1912, near their home at Rush or Winslow, Boyd County, Kentucky are Anthony Wayne Vaughan and his wife America McBrayer Vaughan, seated with young Ruby Ball on her lap, and Norma Hall, daughter of Ella Vaughan and Noah Hall, to her left. Gladys Fultz and Lester Ball are standing between the two adults. At the far left are Mattie Wolfe Vaughan and her husband John Vaughan, who is holding son Delbert. In the stroller is John and Mattie's son Hubert. Next, left to right at the rear, are Everett Vaughan, Ida Vaughan Ball, an unknown young man peeking over the shoulder of Wayne Vaughan, Ruben Ball, Will Vaughan, Tobias Vaughan, and Howard Vaughan.
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Pictured at the left is Cousin Willie Vaughan, seated on the front porch of his home in Tampa, Florida with his dog Rascal, c 1935. My first insight into our Vaughan family's Welsh roots occurred during Cousin Willie's visit with my Grandfather Anthony Wayne Vaughan and our family at Van Lear, following my father's death in the mines in 1935. I distinctly recall several conversations of Grand-dad and Cousin Willie, and their agreement that our first Vaughan of record in this country was William Vaughan. Born around 1750, he was referred to as a "Welshman who traded with Indians." Later, in the 1950s, Jack and Joe Vaughan, members of a Northwest Arkansas branch of our family, told me similar stories about our Indian Trader progenitor. The stories they told of "our place in Wales, some thirty miles north of Cardiff," were essentially the same as those told me by Grandfather Anthony Wayne, although my Virginia-Kentucky Vaughans and Jack and Joe's Northwestern Arkansas Vaughans had had no contact down through the years. Later research revealed that in 1772, the Indian trader William Vaughan married Fereby Benton (b ca 1750 North Carolina, d May 1850 in Madison County Arkansas). In a deposition given in 1892 by Benjamin Vaughan in support of claims for Indian citizenship, he stated that Fereby Benton Vaughan was his grandmother. Her maiden name was Fereby Benton and her mother, who was Cherokee by blood, was a Looney. Fereby married William Vaughan in the "Old Cherokee Nation in Tennessee," Benjamin stated. After service in Captain David Looney's company during Lord Dunmore's War against the Shawnee in 1774, William acquired land in Russell County Virginia, then migrated to Hawkins County Tennessee where he and Fereby remained for a time before going on into White and Warren County Tennessee. They stopped briefly in Southeast Missouri before continuing on to Northwest Arkansas, where they and most of their children settled. Their eldest Thomas, who would become my great-great grandfather, remained in Virginia. My great-great-great grandfather William and his wife Fereby had at least seven children, including their first-born Thomas (1773), John (1774), Samuel (1776), Daniel (1787), William II (1789) and Elizabeth (1790). All of these birthdates are approximate. Around 1793, Thomas married Nancy Ford (b ca 1776), daughter of John and Betsy Hill Ford of Virginia. To this union twelve children were born: John (1794), Elizabeth (1796), Jane (1800), Martha (1802), Nancy (1804), Phoebe (Ferabe) (1806), William Tyler (1808), Lucinda (1813), my great-grandfather James (1814), Christiana (1816), Thomas II (1819), and Abraham (1822). James (b 1814) married Susannah Wilson, daughter of James and Sarah Mountz Wilson, ca 1833 in Boyd County Kentucky. Susannah was also said to be part Cherokee. She and James had ten children: Goodwin (1834), Mary Jane (1836), Allen T. (1840), Lucinda (1841), Rebecca Belle (1842), Cassia (1846), my grandfather Anthony Wayne (1848), Hugh (1851), Jackson (1854), and Mary (1859).
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My father, James Vaughan (1881), pictured at the left c 1920, married Ella Hammond (b 1888), on 27 February 1910. To this union were born two children, George Willis Vaughan (17 August 1912), and Ida Mae Vaughan (16 October 1914). Like many other families who migrated into Johnson County Kentucky after the mining town of Van Lear was established by Consolidation Coal Company in 1910-14, the family of Anthony Wayne Vaughan and America McBrayer Vaughan had several male members represented there, including my father James, his brother Everett, and his brother-in-law John Hammond. James was working in Van Lear on the 7th day of March, 1918, when Ella died suddenly in Ashland. Following the death of his first wife, James returned to Ashland and remained there in the employ of C&O Rwy, returning with his second wife (my mother) and two children to Van Lear in 1920, where they lived through 1924. At that time he and his family shared a double house with his brother Daniel Everett Vaughan and his wife Maude, and their children, Charlene and Maurice. The brother of James' first wife Ella, John Hammond, was then employed as a foreman at Consolidation Mine #152, and the Hammond family lived nearby in what was known as "Silk Stocking Row" across from the Van Lear Central Schools. James returned to Ashland in 1924, and for a time operated a small coal mine with his father at Winslow near what is known as "Number Eight." After his marriage to my mother, my father was employed in 1927 by Semet Solvay, at which time the family resided on 33rd Street in Ashland. In 1928, he and his family returned to Van Lear where his two eldest children entered the Van Lear public school system. When George decided that he wanted to enter the coal mines in 1930, James quit his job as a foreman to take his son into the pits and show him the ropes. George returned to school to graduate with the Van Lear High School Class of 1932..
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My mother, Frances Lynk Vaughan, is pictured at the left in a photo taken around 1920. The daughter of John and Lyda Burgraff Llynk, she was born 22 January 1892. On the 9th of September, 1919, James Vaughan married (2) Frances Lynk. This writer (James E. Vaughan, b 7 December 1925) is the only child of this union. My mother's father John Lynk married Eliza (Lyda) Burgraf July 3, 1871 at Ironton, Ohio. Lyda, as she was known to her close friends and family, was born at Butler, Pennsylvania to John and Hester Burgraf. The identity of the original male emigre Burgraf, and the date of his arrival in this country is presently not known, although the family was said to have roots in The Hague, Netherlands. The children of John and Lyda, from eldest to youngest, were Thomas, Ida, Mayme, Joe, Minnie, Roy, Kate, Jack, Frances, Bryda, and George. Lyda had a sister who married a Simmons. This couple had a son, Will Wright Simmons, a noted operatic tenor, who performed regularly with the Canadian Opera Company, and in Europe as well. John Lynk was a blacksmith who plied his trade at Kilgore in Boyd County Kentucky. His son Joe worked with him for a time, and remained in the home at Kilgore with his wife Clara, where they took care of his mother during her declining years. They had no children. Tom migrated to California, Roy to West Virginia. Ida married George Childress and they lived out their lives in Indiana where they raised their two daughters Evelyn and Lucille. George Lynk spent a good part of his life in the mining town of Glo in Floyd County Kentucky. He and his wife had one child, a daughter Rosemary. Bryda married Lewis McGlothlin and lived in Ashland. They had one child, a daughter Lyda. Jack saw service in the army during World War I. Mayme married Bill Howell, and spent most of her life in Indiana, raising five boys, who moved to Michigan where they found management-level employment in the automobile industry. Kate married Ernest Daniels, a railroad man, and they had two daughters, Bess and Beulah. Minnie married Crocket Lyons, who was a foreman at Ashland Steel. They had one daughter, Frances, who was named for my mother. When Crocket suffered a debilitating paralytic stroke, Minnie took over as the bread-winner, converting her Ashland home into a rooming house.
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On July 15, 1935, a methane gas explosion in Consolidation Mine #155 took the lives of my father, James Vaughan, and eight other miners. The other miners were Roy Murray, brothers Bill and Charley Kretzer, Shirley Hereford, Honus Gool, Durwood Litz, Frank Tuzy, and Virgil Clay, the youngest at 21. My father James was the oldest at age 53. A plaque in their memory is now on display in the Miners' Room of the Museum. In the photo at the left are the six surviving children of Bill and Charley Kretzer. I recall the day of the tragic event quite vividly. One of my young friends came running down the main road to tell me that there had been an explosion at the mine, and my father was in it. I went alone in back of our company house and climbed the hill, trying to believe that it just wasn't so. But it was. A report issued by the Bureau of Mines stated, "The mine (Number 155) had two shallow slopes and an airshaft and was connected to Number 154 mine. At 8:40 A.M. men on a locomotive, approaching first-right, felt a heavy concussion and, after looking into the mouth of first-right, they telephoned outside that an explosion had occurred. Calls for assistance were sent to the state mine inspector, the company offices at Jenkins, Kentucky, other mines, and the Norton Station of the Bureau of Mines. Crews and rescue leaders arrived promptly. Ventilation was advanced by erecting brattices and curtains. Progress was impeded by roof falls, especially where timbers were knocked down or broken in the squeezed area. A gas-mask crew explored ahead of the brattice men, and an apparatus crew made one trip to look for a possible fire, but none was found. The bodies were removed by July 19, two from under heavy falls. Gas had accumulated in the squeezing rooms in which ventilation was almost cut off; it moved onto the entry where it was ignited by an arc from the wiring of a motor or pump. An open-type electric locomotive nearby was not in operation. The explosion picked up and ignited a small amount of coal dust, but did not propogate out of the immediate section. The mine was not rock-dusted, but dust on the entries contained material from the clay floor and brushed roof. The bodies were burned, broken, and crushed. Electric cap lamps were used, but the mine was not considered gassy." Three days later nine funerals were held. The Kretzer brothers were buried in their family plot in Reedsville, near HItchens in Carter County. Virgil Clay was interred in a cemetery on Richmond (John's Creek) Hill at Van Lear; Roy Murray in his family's cemetery plot near Lowmansville; Durward Litz in a plot near Auxier and East Point, across the river from Harman Station; Honus Gool at the mouth of Webb Hollow in Van Lear; Sherley Hereford in Ashland Cemetery; Frank Tuzy in Mayo Cemetery at Paintsville; and my father, Jim Vaughan, in our Vaughn cemetery plot at Rose Hill in Ashland.
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Following our father's death, George Vaughan remained in the employ of Consolidation Coal Company as the family's sole breadwinner from 1935 to 1940. Ida Mae entered nurses' training at Saint Elizabeth's in Covington following her high school graduation in 1934. With war raging in Europe in 1940, George joined a number of other Van Lear boys in an electronics training school operated by the army at Avon near Lexington, Kentucky, transferring to the Army Signal Corps the following year. He served in Europe and was caught up in the Battle of the Bulge, along with Cousins Johnny and Hubert, sons of our Uncle John Vaughan. While George, Johnny, and Hubert survived the war, our Cousin Warren Vaughan, son of Everett and Maude Childress Vaughan, lost his life in Europe. Brother George and his co-worker army buddy were stranded in their Signal Corps truck in the German-occupied sector of Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. George was awarded several army commendations by the U. S. Army, and the Croix de Guerre and Frogierre by the French government. At war's end in 1946, he returned to civilian life and entered the employ of Frigidaire Division of General Motors at Dayton, Ohio, where he met his future wife, Nora Revis, daughter of George "Snead" Revis and Molly Asher Revis of Lebanon, Ohio. They were married in April of 1949. The Molly and Snead Revis family had deep roots in Eastern Kentucky, where Snead lost one of his eyes to a gunman while pursuing the man in his role as Sheriff of Leslie County. On Molly's side of her Asher family, her brother John acquired large tracts of valuable coal lands. The large Revis family also had success in a variety of roles in southern Ohio. Brother George Vaughan and his wife Nora (Revis) Vaughan had no children. Our sister Ida Mae married James Jacobs in 1943. They had two children, Melane (b 17 May 1944), and James (Skip) (b 19 July 1952). Ida Mae passed away in 1983 and is buried in Los Angeles where she resided for forty of her sixty-nine years. George died January 25, 1996 at age 83. His wife Nora passed on February 27, 2008. Both are interred at South Lebanon, Ohio
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Pictured here at the left are my mother and her girls' Sunday School class at Van Lear's Missionary Baptist Church around 1940. In the back row at the left is my mother, fourth from the left is Peggy Beers, far right is Louise King. Bottom row, third from the left, is Doris Ann Harris. My mother was always active in our little Van Lear Missionary Baptist Church, and she saw to it that I attended Sunday School and Church on Sundays, Vacation Bible School, and Prayer Meeting on Wednesday nights. My friends Frankie Cunningham, Leo Perkowski, and I often found ourselves decked out in bathrobes as the Three Wise Men at Christmas time. More than seventy years later I can trace much of my knowledge of the Bible to my church attendance during my youth. My mother was a remarkable woman, although the same may be said for a number of Van Lear moms, where Consol management insisted on high morality and uprightness in its worker-corps families. Employment by a good employer during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s was so rare that the employer could insist on high personal standards. As C. V. Snapp, a Van Lear school superintendent, once said, "If a man didn't send his children to school, he might get moved out." In 1942 surgery at Paintsville Hospital failed to arrest the development of my mother's breast cancer, and we moved to Ashland where she would be near her radiation therapist.
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At the left are my wife Wanda Lee (Rice) Vaughan and Mom's sisters, Aunts Bryda McGlothlin and Minnie Lyons, with whom I boarded until I finished high school at Ashland Senior High in the spring of 1943. The summer of '42 was a strange one. I had three different jobs before the year was out. I first worked for Myron Bates at his A&P Store where I earned 30 cents an hour, bagging groceries and printing signs. I soon landed a job with a group of men who had been hired by Ashland Oil Company to dismantle its old Tri-State refinery plant at Kenova, West Virginia. For this dirty work I doubled my pay to 60 cents an hour. Each day as we walked past Dreamland swimming pool and pavilion, I longed to join the young folks who were lolling about in that haven. My mother had been undergoing radiation therapy at King's Daughter's Hospital. One hot August morning Aunt Min told me that I should not go to work. Mom was worse. A doctor came and administered a pain killer, and that day my mother died. Friends from Van Lear came to pay their respects, brother George had Cousin Case Layne appointed as my guardian, and I quit my job with Ashland Oil, and prepared for my senior year at Ashland Senior High School. Although I made the Ashland Tomcat basketball team as its 6-foot 2-inch center, our Van Lear Bankmules could have beaten the Ashland Tomcats quite handily. I quit the team and took a job at Sam Israel's Royal Jewelry Store, working two hours each weekday after school and eight hours on Saturday as a "gopher." With the extra $10 each week I was then able to start dating girls!
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Following high school graduation I rode a train to Lansing, Michigan, and spent the remainder of the summer and fall with my Cousin Harry Howell and his wife Wynne. I attended Michigan State College in East Lansing, and worked at the Oldsmobile Building 75 munitions plant. At that time Harry was general manager of the Oldsmobile forge plant. My routine that summer and fall never varied: Monday through Saturday it was up for breakfast with Harry at 7:00, on to East Lansing for 8:00 O'clock English, followed by foundry, and mechanical drawing. After lunch I worked the 3-to-11 shift at Olds, then walked home at midnight. On Sunday we played golf at Walnut Hills. Although I was most appreciative of the help my cousins gave me, I had met some Michigan friends who were going into military service, and I had become intrigued with the prospect of becoming a Naval aviator. In October I was accepted as a fledgling Naval Aviation Cadet, and was sent to Grosse Isle Naval Air Station as an interim Tarmac, hopefully awaiting assignment to a pre-flight school. Now, as I look back on those years, I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge all of the help, love, and support that I received from kinfolk and friends following the loss of my father and mother. At Van Lear, George's friends, Lowell Phillips, Deward Kazee, Harold Rucker, Edgar Stapleton, Earl Anderson, O. D.Sparks, and Erwin Brown rallied to his side, while Uncle Everett and Aunt Maude took me into their family at Pikeville and later at Martin. In Ashland, there were Aunt Min and Uncle Crockett Lyons, Aunt Mayme and Uncle Bill Howell, Cousins Case and Ruby Layne, Bill and Pauline Elkins, Uncle Everett and Aunt Maude Vaughan, Aunt Bryda and Aunt Kate Daniels, coaches Charley Ramey and Ted Franz, Mister Ludorf and Walter Wingo at Sam Israel's Royal Jewelry Store, where I worked after school and on Saturdays, Cousins Frances and C. J. Bolton, the men I worked with at Paul Blazer's Ashland Oil Tri State Plant, Myron Bates and his A&P Store, Jimmy Stinson and Phillip Lane, and -- following high school graduation -- Aunt Mayme's son Harry Howell and his dear wife Wynne who had taken me under their wing in Michigan, and for these many kindnesses I shall be forever grateful. I can't help but wonder if our modern society has lost this spirit of unselfish kindness and helpfulness. In the photo at the left are six people who had a profound influence on my early life: My mother's sister, Aunt Mayme Howell and her five sons, Ray, Willard, Chet, Harry, and Leonard.
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Upon entering the Navy V-5 pilot training program in October of 1943, I was sent to Grosse Isle Naval Air Station on Lake Erie for a winter of duty as a Tarmac, servicing Stearman biplanes for English and Canadian student pilots while awaiting what I hoped would be Navy pilot training..Alas, my ambition was not to be realized as the Navy had more than enough pilots to win the war without the help of our 150 Tarmacs. Although I was picked to join the Grosse Isle Naval Air Station basketball squad for an abbreviated season of play, I was not one of the 2 Tarmacs chosen for pilot training. Instead, the 148 remaining members of our two Tarmac companies were sent off to College V-12 programs. My year and a half at Arkansas A & M at Monticello was unremarkable, highlighted by more basketball and a rather rigorous round of Naval Science instruction. In due course we were shipped off to Oklahoma University and NROTC training where I was commissioned an Ensign as a member of the last wartime NRO class at O.U. After spending the summer of 1946 with my navy friend Jack Venable, working at night in his father's service station in Hazen, Arrkansas, I returned to O.U.where good fortune soon smiled upon me. The events that had transpired thus far in my young life, and those yet to come, would soon make me a firm believer in the realness of Divine Providence, and perhaps even something that some called Predestination.
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In 1946 I was released from active duty in the Navy, and returned to Oklahoma University to complete work on a Bachelor's degree with a major in math and minors in physics and Spanish. One day that fall I was in the Oklahoma City railroad train station (wearing my Naval officer's uniform to qualify for a half-fare ticket) when I met my future bride, Wanda Lee Rice, who was on her way back to her home in Arkansas. I was serving as a sort of unofficial interpreter for a group of Spanish-speaking Colombians when another navy friend, George Souris, introduced me to the erstwhile Stephens co-ed. When I helped her with her luggage as she disembarked at Springfield, Missouri, little did she realize that I had seen her pretty face in the window of a photographer's shop near my house in Norman, and I had been immediately enchanted with her. That 1946 photo is the one shown here at the left. Wanda Lee Rice, daughter of Thomas Lee and Samantha Rice of Delaplaine, Arkansas, and I were married on Valentine's Day, February14, 1949, in the Paragould Arkansas study of D. C. Applegate, pastor of First Baptist Church. After working for Armstrong Cork Company, and at WLOU in Louisville, Kentucky and as manager of Radio Station WMBM, Miami Beach, Florida, we came to Arkansas in 1955, built a farm house, and remained there as teachers, farmers, and writers for over fifty years. On February 14, 2009, we celebrated sixty wonderful years together. We have no children.
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It may surprise some viewers of this web site to see this, a panel devoted to the town of Van Lear, but I hasten to tell you that the town had a lasting impact on me. Perhaps it was because I spent my formative years - ages 3 through 16 - at Van Lear. For most of us, it is the experiences we have during those years that make the most indelible impression upon us. My friend, the late Silva Lyon, son of Van Lear's second physician Dr. John Lyon, had similar feelings about the town. Then too, a number of male members of the family of Anthony Wayne Vaughan worked in the mines of eastern Kentucky - John and his sons, Delbert and Hubert, who worked both at Van Lear and at Garrett in Floyd County, and Anthony Wayne Vaughan II, who lost his life in a mining accident in February of 1923 at Wolf Pen, Kentucky. Daniel Everett worked at Van Lear for a time, where he was also a pitcher on one of the better town baseball teams. Later he became a federal mine inspector, a job he held at Pikeville in 1935 when his brother James (my father) was killed in a methane gas explosion at Van Lear. The Consolidation Mine #155 tipple shown here is a more modern steel structure which was built to replace the old wooden tipple of the 1910-35 era. With the construction of this facility, all production of Van Lear's Miller's Creek coal was routed through this coal-preparation plant. Few of the old structures remain, only private homes, and the old Consol office building, now a miners' museum. Until recently, Wanda Lee and I tried to return to Van Lear each year, where we attended annual town reunions and biennial school reunions. Alas, our health no longer permits these pleasant, nostalgic journeys. Perhaps this web site will serve as a reminder of those days, both for the two of us and for others who have similar backgrounds.
If you would like to see more Van Lear photos, click here and this link will take you to my vanlearky.com web site.
Some will perhaps understand when I say that I long for a return to Victorian Hypocrisy, a time when we may not have been the sort of people we appeared to be, but at least we were all expected to conduct ourselves with a certain propriety and sense of decorum and decency. For those who do not understand this, no amount of explaining will change their perception.
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At the left are photos of three of the children of Maude and Everett Vaughn in their military uniforms during World War II: At the far left is Gene, and to the right of his photo are Warren and Maurice. This update was made Saturday, July 4, 2009, the same day that I sent an invitation to members of our Vaughn-Vaughan family to add their photos and information to this site. These two photos were sent to me by our cousin Steve, eldest son of Gene and Phyllis (Webb) Vaughn. We look forward to posting more pictures and family information from any and all Vaughn-Vaughan family members in the near future.
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Pictured at the left is the 1934 Garrett (Floyd County Kentucky) High School Basketball team. Player #13, second from the left, is Johnny Vaughn. The third son of John and Mattie Wolfe Vaughn, Johnny was born November 14, 1915 at Rush, Kentucky. On the 7th of October, 1940, Johnny married Audria Vanhoose, who was born June 11, 1919 at Sitka, Kentucky, the daughter of Hancel and Nellie VanHoose. She and Johnny had two children, Judith Delyn Vaughn, born May 8, 1941 at Wittensville, Kentucky, and Stephen Gregory Vaughn, born June 15, 1953 at San Diego. Johnny served in the U. S. Army during World War II, where he, along with his brother Hubert and cousin George, were caught up in the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. Following his service during the war, Johnny and Audria resumed their family life in San Diego. As we receive more information on other descendants of Anthony Wayne Vaughan and America McBrayer Vaughan, we hope to add to these family panels.
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In 1960, a series of articles in the Floyd County (Kentucky) Times concerning a court case (1940s) put me on the trail of the origins of William Vaughan (1750-1840) and his part-Cherokee bride Fereby Benton (1750-1859). This led me to our distant cousin Lewis Vaughan and his family research, ultimately resulting in a personal visit (1989) to the Vaughan homeplace (1450-1783) at Tretower, about 30 miles north of Cardiff in southern Wales, the place described to me by my Grandfather, and (later) by members of the Northwest Arkansas Vaughan clan. A great deal of ancient history concerning this family is found in my recently revised book The Vaughan Family in Wales and America, now available from Trafford Publishing. See the links below for additional information on this and my other books.
The Books
The Vaughan Family in Wales and America is a 2008 update of a family history first published in 1990 by Higginson Book Company of Salem, Massachusetts. Originally conceived as a "search for the Welsh ancestors of William Vaughan (1750-1840)," this book became a global search for Vaughans of all seasons. Revised in 1992, this 2009 edition has been further revised by the author, 83 year-old James E. Vaughan, for publication and distribution by Trafford Publishing of 2657 Wilfert Road, Victoria BC CANADA V9B 5Z3, the publisher of his historical novels The Alchymist and The Silurist, and Diana and Leo. To learn more about this book and its availability, click here, and then return to this site via your browser's back button to continue to this personal family web site.
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The Alchymist and The Silurist is a new historical novel (first published in 2008) based on the sometimes tortured life of Thomas Vaughan, a 17th-century Welsh Anglican pastor, who became obsessed with alchemy, and his twin brother Henry, the mystical poet known as the Silurist, distant kinsmen of author James E. Vaughan. Stories of the controversial alchymist were revived some two hundred years after his death by a roguish French writer named Gabrielle Jogand-Pages, who created elaborate hoaxes, pitting Freemasons against Catholics. Writing under various pseudonyms, he published a series of salacious stories about a young American girl named Diana Vaughan, who had journeyed to Paris hoping to prove her kinship to the 17th-century Welsh scientist. The sequel Diana and Leo. will soon follow . Click here.
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Stories of the controversial alchymist Thomas Vaughan were revived some two hundred years after his death by a roguish French writer named Gabrielle Jogand-Pages, who created elaborate hoaxes, pitting Freemasons against Catholics. Writing under various pseudonyms, he published a series of salacious stories about a young American girl named Diana Vaughan, who had journeyed to Paris, hoping to prove her kinship to the 17th-century Welsh scientist. This book, Diana and Leo, the sequel to The Alchymist and The Silurist, is now available from the publisher, Trafford Publishing, and on-line from Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. Click here for details.
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In the eyes of James Vaughan, Van Lear, Kentucky was a unique company-owned coal town, a great place to "grow up in" despite The Great Depression and occasional human tragedy. Van Lear's athletic teams were nicknamed BANKMULES, the title of the author's book about his hometown, which KENTUCKY MONTHLY described as "a gem of a memoir." One Kentucky reader characterized it as a "beautiful book of unusual perfection." The Hardin County Kentucky News-Enterprise referred to it as "an uplifting book." If you wish to learn more about BANKMULES from the publisher (The Jesse Stuart Foundation), click here. and then return to this site via your browser's back < button.
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VAUGHAN Genealogy and Family History Research
Vaughan Family: Surname Genealogy, Family History
Vaughan Genealogy on the Web: A resource center for locating family data for the Vaughan surname.
Vaughan Surname Origin & Last Name Meaning with Genealogy
Over 45,000 listings in this database; Vaughan Vaughn Re-Union
The Vaughn Family Center is located within the Los Angeles Unified School District in an elementary school.
JASON DEAN VAUGHN FAMILY GENEALOGY
STANCLIFF FAMILY GENEALOGY
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Vaughan Family Genealogy - 1918
Welcome to the Vaughn family site
This is the website of Robert and Shelly Vaughn.
JEVAUGHN.com, a portal to Vaughn-Vaughan family web sites and the internet's most useful webstes.
Vaughn Family History Facts 1920 - Ancestry.com
Family history of Wayne Vaughn featuring American lineages from MO, VA, TN, IL, OK and KY. Includes surname resources and publications.
Vaughn Family
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VaughnFamily.com
Vaughn-Family
This site is maintained for the many descendants of Sampson Vaughan (1790-1872) and his wife, Mary Jones, who married in Wales and died in North Carolina.
Deonna's Genealogy Page: Our Vaughan Family Tree
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This page is dedicated to Vaughan family history, Vaughan family photos, and Vaughan family genealogy. You can share your own Vaughan family history.
It is understood that this cemetery was named for the owner of the land years ago (Mr. Pete Vaughan) and his home, where the cemetery is located.
Trafford Publishing: "The Vaughan Family in Wales and America", an exhaustive genealogical study of Vaughans in Wales, England, and America, dating back to the 15th century.
Vaughan Family Tree and Genealogy Links at Surname Finder. Resources for your Vaughan family tree research project. Saves time by doing multiple searches from one convenient page.
Sampson and Mary Vaughan spent their days working a scrub oak farm near Durham, North Carolina, where they grew tobacco.
Vaughn-Vaughan family information via jevaughn.com, a portal to Vaughn-Vaughan family web sites and the internet's most useful webstes.
VAUGHAN Genealogy and Family History Research. All VAUGHAN family aboard immigrant ships. Purportedly "the world's largest online VAUGHAN family tree."
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Vaughan Family. Excerpts that include early history, a manor and mansion of Welsh Bicknor in possession of the Vaughan family.
The Vaughan surname / last name in this family name dictionary. Family History Ideas.
Family Tree DNA - DNA Kit OrdersA Y-DNA project for the surnames Vaughan, Vaughen, Von, Vaun & Vaughn ... A Surname Project traces members of a family that share a common surname.
Stanger, Vaughan: “Family Tree” - TranscriptaseFamily Tree. by Vaughan Stanger.
The definitive directory to Vaughan Family: Surname Genealogy, Family History, Family Tree, Family Crest.
VAUGHAN - VAUGHN Families from Wales to Virginia to Ohio (Mar 1, 2008) Featured on many web sites even a garden site with map and is now also a book A Welsh House & It's Family The Vaughan's of Trawsgoed.
Follis-Vaughan and other family info
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Vaughan Family Genealogy & DNA Research
Vaughan-Vaughn Family Research
William Vaughan and Olivia Sophia Shroyer
The Puritan Tradition in America, 1620-1730 By Alden T. Vaughan
Benjamin Vaughan (1751-1835)
The VAUGHAN / GNARINI Genealogy Project
EARLIEST VAUGHANS in AMERICA (Updated December 2, 2000)
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Books on Henry Vaughan, The Silurist
Vaughan Family Papers - 1768-1950 - Guide to the Collection
John Vaughan, born Abt. 1613, and died Aft. July 23, 1687
Hank Vaughan, born to Alexander and Elizabeth Vaughan on April 27, 1849, south of Portland, Oregon, one of seven children
Interwoven Family: The Vaughn/Vaughan Family
Vaughn / Vaughan Family
Researching the Vaughn / Vaughan family lines
Vaughn / Vaughan Family
Wayne Vaughn / Vaughan Family site.
Vaughan/Vaughn Report Rt. 1, Box 2 Dallas, TX 75211
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The Vaughn/Vaughan Family Homepage.
JEVAUGHN's portal to Vaughn-Vaughan family web sites and links to some of GOOGLE's most recent Vaughn-Vaughan family-search results. (This site)
VAUGHN / VAUGHAN Family Websites - Stephens Genealogy Home Page ...
Nancy Vaughn (Vaughan), Smith County, Tenn/Vaughan family history & genealogy message board
Vaughan Family Genealogy Forum
Vaughn FamilyFamily history of Wayne Vaughn featuring American lineages from MO, VA, TN, IL, OK and KY
Looking for family of Delbert Vaughn - Vaughan - Family History
Cyndi's List
SOUTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY-L Vaughn / Vaughan Marriages
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Vaughan family in Nannau, Wales
Vaughan Family: Surname Genealogy
Stephen Vaughan Born July 18, 1765 Edgecombe County, NC
Vaughn-Vaughan Family Tombstones.
Vaughn-Vaughan Family Tombstones
Tetbury - Family History, Genealogy
Vaughan Family Genealogy Colleton Co S.C. 1810
Vaughan Family History Facts 1920 - Smith Co TN
Rootsweb Vaughan search
The Hinshaw Family Association
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Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site
Interwoven Family: Stanley George Vaughn
Ethelda Henry Genealogical Collection, 1671-1988 ...1670, Vaughn [Vaughan] family
Blogs re Vaughn-Vaughan
Vaughan Resource Page
Lamont Vaughan - Pennsylvania
Re 1790 census
David Orin Huntsman Emeline Davis Vaughn-Vaughan
Rebecca Trice Vaughan - 1825
Start Ancestry Family Tree
Vaughan and Knarr
White Co TN microfilm records of Joyce Bradley McComb - Tn Archives, Nashville
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Wilcox Co AL
Family Home page @ Genealogy.com
Western Historic Collection, Columbia MO
Robert Gordon and Vaughan-related families - c 1784
Ancestry.co.UK
Extensive alphabetized index to numerous Vaughan family sites
John Vaughan in Vermont query
1790s Vaughans in Texas and Georgia query
Teal and Vaughn family info
Hardeman Co TN queries
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Stanley George Vaughn
Hinshaw kin alphabetized V-names
Vaughan query "Henderson Co :KY
Vaughan query Haskell Co OK
Seattle WA Genealogical Society
Photo Caroline Sabin Vaughan, Napierville IL
Gordon quest
Valentine, Adelbert Del
Born c1856 in Iowa
Son of Daniel M. Valentine
Andreas – 581
Reflections of Franklin County – Public Schools of Ottawa
Kansas Historical Society Index
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Oakdale Scott CVo IA cemetery - 1866 etc
Grayson Co VA surnames
Roots Web surnames
Polly Clark query SC
Vaughan family genealogy forum
Garnett and Vaughan query Jackson Co AL
Vaughan query Coffee Co TN
Query Franklin Co TN
Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Vaughan Reunion Floyd Co VA
Vaughan sources
TribalPages
Wayne Co MI
Cheryl Freeman
Query re Isaac White - NC TN 1800s
Surnames in Garst Museum, Greenville OH
Chuck Vaughan Bedford Co PA
Native Americans Jackson genealogy
Surname DNA Project
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John Vaughan - 1774 NC
Origin of Vaughn
Ancestral lines : 190 families in Europe compiled by Carl Boyer
Australian surnames
Walder Co GA
Vaughn-Vaughan family forums
Drury Vaughan 1778- Halifax Co VA
RootsWeb South Central KY
Three generations of Vaughans. VA GA
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RootsWeb: Grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Vaughan lived with William and Fereby Benton Vaughan
RootsWeb: A mailing group for ONLY William and Fereby Vaughan descendants
Tretower Genealogy Research: Willards and Vaughans
Tretower Genealogy Research: Vaughans, Patriotism and Rare DNA
Jim's Geneology Page - The Harp branch of the family includes William and Fereby Vaughan
RootsWeb researching a possible lead on Fereby Benton, wife of William Vaughan that has plagued and annoyed us all so much over the past years.
Vaughan of Virginia Pioneers:William & Fereby Vaughan
Madison County, AR - Descendants of William & Fereby Vaughan - Eddie Davis 4/17/00
John Vaughan Settled Newport, Rhode Island, 1638 by Herman Vaughan Griffin. Vaughan Pioneers: William and Fereby Vaughan Of Russell County
Vaughan Virginia Land Grants - William and Fereby’s land
RootsWeb: VAUGHAN: The Cherokee blood as I see it - Fereby Benton married William Vaughan. Fereby's mother's maiden name was Looney. ...
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RootsWeb: VAUGHAN: Cherokee Fereby ? The research continues
Shiloh Museum of Ozark History - George Washington Vaughan was the grandson of Cherokee pioneers William and Fereby Benton Vaughan
James CALLICO who m Elizabeth VAUGHAN, d/o William & Fereby BENTON Vaughan. The CALLICOS and VAUGHANS are later found in Warren Co TN
Vaughan Pioneers:Page 249 - January 24, 1797 - Thomas Vaughan, William and Fereby's son, lived in Warren County TN
Higginson Book Company - Publishers: VAUGHAN Pioneers: William & Fereby Vaughan of Russell Co., Va. - The Vaughans in Wales & America
DAVID VAUGHN 1810 MADISON CO. AR.David was a brother to my ggg grandfather, Benjamin F. Vaughan
Vaughan Family Tree and Genealogy Links at Surname Finder
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