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Joseph Vaughan
was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, circa 1789.
Eleanor O'Bannon was also born in Fauquier County, Virginia, circa 1795.
She was U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon's first cousin; he is the
Marine who led the expedition "to the shores of Tripoli,"
memorialized in the Marine Corps Hymn.
Joseph Vaughn married Eleanor O'Bannon, circa 1810.
They settled in Garrard and Lincoln Counties,
Kentucky, and had the following 14 children:
Elizabeth Vaughan born circa
1811
Jane Vaughan born circa 1814
Thompson
Vaughan born circa 1814
Sophia
Vaughan born circa 1818
Harriet
Vaughan born circa 1820
John Vaughan born circa 1822
George Washington Vaughan born circa 1824
Catherine
Vaughan born circa 1825
Elinor Vaughan born
circa 1826
Joseph Vaughan,
Jr. born
circa 1827
James M.
Vaughan born circa 1831
Louisa Catherine Vaughan born
circa 1834
Burdett Kemper Vaughan (male) born circa
1837
Hiram T.
Vaughan born circa 1840
John Vaughan married
Louisa Hensley, in Putnam County, Indiana, on
4 Nov 1847.
children:
Luther
Clay Vaughan born circa 1849
James
Vaughan born
circa 1850
Mary Adeline
Vaughan born circa
1851
John Frederick Vaughan born
circa 1854
Thomas
Vaughan born circa 1857
Ellen
Vaughan born
circa 1857
Luther Clay Vaughan was born in Kentucky or Indiana.
He served at about age 15, in the 132nd
Indiana Infantry, Union Army, during the Civil War.
He married Mary Catherine Swift, in Davis
County, Iowa, on 30 Oct 1870.
He died on 5 May 1916, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
children:
Vincent Sylvester Vaughan born
circa 1873
John Franklin
Vaughan 28 Mar 1874
Maud Emily
Vaughan 29 Oct 1875
Rutherford DeWitt Vaughan born circa 1877
(This is almost certainly the same "Dewitt Rutherford Vaughan b:1877
d:1960, Iowa" from whom a Mr. Duane Wesley Vaughan believes he is a direct
descendant; Duane and I share 35 of 37 Y-DNA markers.)
William
Swift Vaughan born
12 July 1879
William Swift Vaughan was born 12 July 1879, in
McPherson County, Kansas.
He served in the 93rd Company of the
U.S. Coastal Artillery during the Spanish-American War.
He married Maud Osborn Knowlton, in Chicago, Illinois,
on
12 Jul 1920.
He died, in Joliet, Will County, Illinois, on 4
Nov 1952.
Only two children:
William
Knowlton Vaughan born 14 Jun 1921
Sidney Knowlton Vaughan
born 30 Jul 1923
William Knowlton Vaughanwas born 14 Jun 1921 in
Chicago, Illinois.
He served as a U.S. Army 2nd
Lieutenant in the
American and
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaigns, during World War II.
He married Merle on Mar 24, 1961 in Salt Lake
City Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah.
He died, in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, on 30 Aug
1966.
His only child, William Mortensen
Vaughan was the person tested.