Re: Francis Marion Vaughan

Michael Mackey (ID *****4896) Date: January 11, 2006 at 08:13:44
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I am looking for descendants and other relatives of Francis Marion Vaughan who married Rebecca Moody in Kaufman County, TX September 12, 1872.
Here is what I know about him: F M Vaughan was born in 1839 in Arkansas. With three future brothers-in-law (Henry, Hickman and James Moody) he joined the 14th Kansas Cavalry (Union). He may have met his future brothers-in-law in the service or they may have known each other earlier and joined up together.
He and Rebecca had at least three children: George (b-1875),
James (b-1878) and Lucy (b-1879).

Different documents spell his last name either Vaughan or Vaughn, though Vaughan seems to be the probable correct spelling. I have so far not found F M Vaughan living in Kaufman County, TX before 1880.
Any help would be appreciated. Rebecca Moody, his wife, was my great-great-great aunt.

Francis Marion Vaughan b. abt 1839 in Nelson Co., Va. was my great grandfather. My Francis Marion Vaughan and the above Francis Marion Vaughan who married Rebecca Moody in Kaufman Co., TX. might well be the same person.

Francis Marion Vaughan was 10 in 1850.

1860 Nelson Co., VA Census

William Vaughan 69 Farmer
Mildred A. Vaughan 35
Maria L. Vaughan 26
Virginia Vaughan 24
Francis M. Vaughan 21 Carpenter
Mary E. Vaughan 17

Francis Marion Vaughan married the daughter of the Spencer family living next door. Francis Vaughan & Lucinda E. Spencer were married on February 18, 1863 in Nelson Co., VA Their first child, John James Vaughan, was born the following year on the 9th of March 1864, followed by a daughter, Rose Ellen Vaughan, on Aug. 15, 1867. Shortly thereafter Lucinda passed away leaving Francis with two children. His mother-in-law, Sarah Spencer, took the children in and he took a job with the railroad extending a rail line into Tennessee. The last the family heard from him, was in a letteer home, where he mentioned that he had a cap for his son John and would bring it home with him. Francis was never heard from again. Did he die or did he remarry. To this day we don't know.

 Years later, when his daughter was a young lady, keeping house for her brother in Monroe, Virginia, a well spoken and neat "hobo" stopped by her house. I would imagine she fed him and in passing, this "hobo" asked her if she was Rose Vaughan. She, of course, replied that she was. The "hobo" then told her that she looked very much like her father, who he had met years earlier. From this account it would appear that this "hobo" might have been her father, who was checking on his daughter. I have in my possession a picture of Francis Marion Vaughan, taken when he was a young man. It is one half of a double picture frame. the other half of the frame is missing. Did the other half contain the picture of Lucinda Spencer Vaughan?


Food for thought.

Jim