Biography
      Enoch Vaughan
      1814-1891
      Submitted and researched by
      Joseph Vaughn Potter and Mary Zinn Brown



      Enoch Vaughan b. 1814 in "middle TN" He reportedly married
      before he left TN at age 18 in 1832, but she was never mentioned
      again. He went to Scott Co., AR and lived with his sister's family
      while working summers periodically for a rancher in Bonham,
      TX by the name of Robert Petty.  He eventually married his
      daughter, Elizabeth Petty ca. 1839.

      Enoch and Elizabeth's children were:

        Robert H. b. 1842 m. Mahala Petty 29 Mar 1868, Hunt Co.,
        TX d. Del Rio, TX

        Abigail b. 13 Sep 1844   d. 7Apr 1917
        m. John Noble (1)
        Henry Ramsey (2)

        Elizabeth "Lizzie" b. 1844

        Alfred b. 14 Feb 1848   d. 23 Sep 1891; buried in Monroe
        Cemetery, LeFlore Co., OK

        Sarah Ann Angiline Clemenza (died in infancy)

        George (died in infancy)

        John Calhoun b. 6 Jun 1853 m. Rhoda Frances Kindrick
        d. 28 Jun 1939

        James Frederick b. 6 Apr 1856 Fannin Co., TX;
        m. Diana Anthony d. 30 May 1930
         

      On 14 Apr 1860, Enoch received a land patent to homestead 80
      acres near Blackfork, Scott Co., AR. During the Civil War,
      according to family oral history, his house was surrounded by
      soldiers and he and his oldest son, Robert H., were pressed into
      Confederate service. After the death of his wife, Elizabeth, about
      1865, Enoch moved his family to Franklin Co., AR and on 11
      Jan 1869, he married Parthene A. Napier, widow of Union
      soldier Isaac C. Napier. But in 1876, Parthene died and on 11
      Feb 1877, at age 63, Enoch married 21 year old Hannah
      Mulligan.

      They had four children:

        Sarah, who died as a child;

        Martha "Met";

        Enoch Lafayette "Fate" b. 6 Jan. 1881

        Amanda Lucinda Louise Cordelia b. 2 Jan 1885.
         

      Enoch was ordained a minister of the Freewill Baptist Church
      in 1874 and pastored several churches in Pope and Searcy
      Counties, AR.  In Pope Co. from 1881 to 1883, Rev. Enoch
      Vaughan was reported to be the pastor at Smyrna, White
      Springs, Mt. Vernon and Dover. Searcy County history states
      the he also organized and pastored the St. Joe Freewill Baptist
      Church near Hector, Pope Co., in 1889.

      Enoch Vaughan died in 1891 and is buried in the Napier
      Cemetery 30 miles north of Hector, Pope Co., AR.
       


      Any questions, corrections, suggestions, and/or additional
      information contact me, Linda CONAWAY Welden at:

      Linda_Welden@Vaughan-Vaughn.org

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