Surname vertical file - Vaughn
From microfilm, Birmingham public library, Birmingham AL
There is a LOT of information on Vaughan/Vaughn, including family queries, newspaper articles, genealogy letters passed around by relatives, hunting their line, etc. Some include marriage records from various states, DAR records, census records, lineages, family bible records, wills, land records, many others.
I was primarily looking for Absolom Vaughn, b. SC (prob Union Co) cir. 1817, or Hartwell Vaughn, who I am trying to prove a relationship to (possibly uncle). I ignored Vaughns in Mobile county, not realizing at the time that some of my Vaughn’s moved there. Must research this file again.
Roll no 595 - Vansandt, C. - Vaughn, W.
Each document is automatically numbered in bottom right corner.
Document #00797
Page 1 of a letter that starts “Dear Mrs. Hood”, has Vaughn information she is tracing, then bottom paragraph is:
Blount Co., Ala. Records
Marriages --
Abner Vaughan m. Elizabeth Nation, 20 Dec 1820
children of Elizabeth (Nation) Vaughan, dec’d. By 1847.
Kary Ann (may be Mary Ann)
Alphree
William (All minors and living in Texas in 1847)
Crockett
Melehjah
Littleberry B.
Document #00796
Page 2 of above document continues:
Blount Co. Ala Records - con’t.
Marriages
Elizabeth Vaughan m. William White, 11 April 1821
Cynthia Vaughan m. Peter Pippen, 6 Dec. 1823
Nancy Vaughan m. Mitchel Childers, 19 Nov. 1828
Hiram Vaughan m. Jane Hopkins, 2 Aug. 1823
Asrey Vaughan m. William Byfort, 8 Feb. 1832
Sarah Vaughan m. Alexander Templeton, 10 Oct. 1832
Elizabeth Vaughan m. Ake Henry, 21 April 1842.
Goes on to tell of Tennessee records, and Wilson Co, Tenn. The last paragraph at bottom of page says:
“ If the Hunley Vaughan we are looking for married in SC after the Revolutionary War (1783-86) we will not be able to learn who he married. Unless we find it in a Bible or news paper, it may be in a church record, but the State of South Carolina did not require a marriage license until about 1915. I first will try in Pittsylvania Co, Va.”
Document #00795
Page 3 of above document continues - more about Hunley Vaughan. Letter signed James O. Vassar.
Document #00831
Copied from a newspaper article from the Moulton Advertiser, date unknown - an old lineage of the Vaughan family, going back to Wales. (Note-an odd coincidence - just found a lineage on my Cozby family back to Ireland - at one point one of them had gone to Jamaca. This Vaughan family of England lineage has one sentence that says: Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan took up their residence for a time in Jamacia in the West Indies, where Mr. Vaughan had a large plantation, and their eldest son, Benjamin Vaughan - the best known of a distinguished family - was born in 1751.)
Document #00832
There is no doubt of the fact that the name is of Welsh origin. The Welsh word “vuchan”, little in stature, is the source of the name, which is therefore akin to the English Little and the German Klein.
Document #00833
Madison County Vaughan’s
Marriages of Brunswick County, Va: (The following is family data of James O. Vasser, Route 1, Box 83, Decatur, Alabama). . . .
Document #00836
bottom of page:
Blount County, Ala.
Residents purchasing land at the US Land Office at Huntsville, Ala in 1820 & 1821.
Absalom Vaughn, T13 R1w, 24320.
Document #00843
Vaughan-Vaughn Marriages in Virginia 1607-1800 (continued)
Peter Vaughan, October 18, 1786, Mary Dodwyn? Boiseau, Dinwiddie Co. (Cameron)
Peter Vaughan, m. Nov. 10, 1798, N. Turner, Halifax Co. Mar. Bond.
Peter Vaughan, m Aug. 28, 1874, Elizabeth Raines, Prince George Co. (Cameron).
Peter Vaughan, m. Aug. 31, 1797, Sarah Beazley, Rev. John Woodville. St. Mark’s Parish Reg., Culpeper Co.
Documet #00845
Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution
by John H. Gwathmey?
Vaughan, Absalom, Inf. Nbll (next document shows key to codes - nbll: Name appeared on Army Register, but had not received bounty land. An extensive complication in the War Department.)
Document #00846
Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution (con’t.)
Vaughn, Absalom, Dinwiddle pens.
Roll no 595 - Vansandt, C. - Vaughn, W. has been completed, except must review Mobile, Ala records again.
