It states that J.P. attended school only 3 weeks in his life. But his mother taught him at home. He could read and write. He is said to have had an excellent tenor voice and he made his own piano harp to accompany the family singing. He also played the fiddle.
The family moved to Colfax, Texas in 1908. When he and Julia separated he went to Dallas. He lived with his daughter Maybelle and husband until the last several months of his life when he lived with son G.L.
Regarding J.P.'s father Anderson Vaughan, G. L. says " My childhood memory told me that Papa's grandfather came to the United States from Ireland, When papa was at my house a few years before he passed away I asked him, "Is it a fact, Papa, that your grandfather came from Ireland?"He replied, "No, it was Pa that came from Ireland. There was four brothers that come on the same ship to Charleston, South Carolina. They got off the ship and scattered like four partridges,"he concluded.
The book states that J.P.'s father, Anderson Vaughan, was a carpenter and millwright. It mentions he had a weakness for the bottle, which did cause problems. It also says that Anderson died when J.P. was 14.
The 1900 census does show his father being born in South Carolina and his mother in Georgia.
Henry Anderson Vaughan (J.P.'s father 1820-1878) was married to Emily J. (Eskew) Vaughan, born 1828.
She was still alive in 1880 according to the 1880 Mississippi census.
On the 1870 Gwinnet County census, J.P.'s sibling were listed as George (D.O.B. ca. 1850)
A sister, V.E. (ca. 1853), Catherine (ca. 1856), H.L. (ca. 1858) T.Y. or Thomas J. (ca. 1860) and Emily (ca 1868.)
By the 1880 census Thomas was married to a lady named Mary.
It states that J.P. attended school only 3 weeks in his life. But his mother taught him at home. He could read and write. He is said to have had an excellent tenor voice and he made his own piano harp to accompany the family singing. He also played the fiddle.
The family moved to Colfax, Texas in 1908. When he and Julia separated he went to Dallas. He lived with his daughter Maybelle and husband until the last several months of his life when he lived with son G.L.
Regarding J.P.'s father Anderson Vaughan, G. L. says " My childhood memory told me that Papa's grandfather came to the United States from Ireland, When papa was at my house a few years before he passed away I asked him, "Is it a fact, Papa, that your grandfather came from Ireland?"He replied, "No, it was Pa that came from Ireland. There was four brothers that come on the same ship to Charleston, South Carolina. They got off the ship and scattered like four partridges,"he concluded.
The book states that J.P.'s father, Anderson Vaughan, was a carpenter and millwright. It mentions he had a weakness for the bottle, which did cause problems. It also says that Anderson died when J.P. was 14.
The 1900 census does show his father being born in South Carolina and his mother in Georgia.
Henry Anderson Vaughan (J.P.'s father 1820-1878) was married to Emily J. (Eskew) Vaughan, born 1828.
She was still alive in 1880 according to the 1880 Mississippi census.
On the 1870 Gwinnet County census, J.P.'s sibling were listed as George (D.O.B. ca. 1850)
A sister, V.E. (ca. 1853), Catherine (ca. 1856), H.L. (ca. 1858) T.Y. or Thomas J. (ca. 1860) and Emily (ca 1868.)
By the 1880 census Thomas was married to a lady named Mary.
Family Members
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Myrtle Maybelle Vaughan Vann
1886–1972
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Rev Henry Newton Vaughan
1888–1978
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George Lester Vaughan Sr
1890–1981
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Evie Estelle Vaughan Mills-Cisson
1893–1985
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John Boyd Vaughan
1894–1980
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Mary Lou Vaughn Van
1896–1935
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Tom Ed Vaughan
1899–1989
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William McKinley Vaughn
1902–1991
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Nina Julia Vaughan Mills
1904–1993
