Family of
Manoah Vaughan
Blount County, Alabama
Submitted by Mary Gregg

Since this paper was originally compiled [about 1986],  I have sent
copies to  several people and they have sent me information on their
lines,which information I have incorporated into this paper, so that
it is no longer entirely my own work. In addition to those cor-
respondents, the information came from a number of sources,
including:

1.  Material sent to my former correspondent [now deceased], Janie
Price.  Janie had received it from a correspondent in Mississippi.
2.  Material I received from the Huntsville, Alabama, Public Library,
which had been supplied by Mrs. Beverly Bradly Finch, 4233 Cliff
Road, Birmingham, Alabama [1969], who had gotten it from Mrs.
George Wilson  Smith [Jean Waldrop] of 1002 East Forest Street,
Athens, Alabama.   Some of the information also had come from
Floy Wray  Vaughan who married Gilbert R. Smith.  So far as I
could tell, Gilbert R. and Floy Wray (Vaughan) Smith were the
parents of George Wilson Smith whose wife was given as a source
for some of the information, but I'm not completely sure that I
understood correctly.
3.  Some of the material sent to me by the people at Huntsville
Library was assembled by someone [not identified] from letters
from Isola Barclift Whitaker [Mrs. J. T. Whitaker of Cullman]
"who now that she is a widow has gone to Texas to live with a
niece.  Isola and Ted had no children."
4.  Census records of the various counties concerned.
5.  Marriage records of the various counties concerned.
6.  Original material on the purchase of land for the heirs  of
Hundley Stewart Vaughan furnished to me by the United  States
General Services Administration.

    1.  Manoah Vaughan was born in Georgia, probably Franklin
County, in the 1790's [sources differ] and died in Alabama July
10, 1870.  He is buried in a private cemetery "in  approximately
Section 14-9S- E in Marshall County...about  ten miles south of
Guntersville on Highway 79...". He was the son of Hundley
Vaughan, (?Jr.) who probably was the son  of Hundley Vaughan,
Sr. of Halifax and Pittsylvania Counties, Virginia, Union County,
South Carolina, and Franklin County,  Georgia.  Manoah Vaughan
married (1) in Madison County, Alabama, February 13, 1813,
Betsey Vaughan [parentage unknown] who was born about  1791
and died December 29, 1846.  She is buried beside her  husband.
Manoah is said to have married (2) July 20, 1851, in Morgan
County, Alabama, Sarah Mayhall.  This may be correct, but at the
time of his death in 1870, his wife's name was Anna.

At the time of the War of 1812, Madison County, Alabama, where
Manoah Vaughan was living, was part of the Mississippi  Territory,
and Manoah Vaughan served in the 6th Regiment of the Mississippi
Militia in 1814-1815. Requests to the National Archives for pension
or bounty land applications have brought  negative results.

On October 1, 1990, professional genealogist Marilyn Davis
Barefield wrote to her client, Billy W. Fowler, as follows:

"Manoah Vaughn's LW&T was probated 7/13/1870 naming heirs:
widow, Anna; children: Elizabeth P. Henry of Blount Co., Benjamin
of California, Afrey  Barclift, wife of Joseph C. Barclift of Blount
Co., Susan wife of Henry H. Barclift of Blount Co., Ann Eliza wife
of James S. Hamilton of Marshall Co., Benjamin F. Vaughan,
grandson,  heirs of Hundley Vaughn,  son deceased residing in
Tennessee and heirs of Olivia Lewis, dau. deceased of Lawrence
Co."

I have a different list of Manoah's children which I obtained from
the vertical file in the Huntsville, Alabama, Public Library.  In his
will, Manoah mentioned two children not on this list [Benjamin
and Olivia] and this list names two [Hiram J. and Sallie] not
mentioned in the will.  This list is headed:

   "Mrs, Beverly Bradley Finch (A.P.Jr.)
    4233 Cliff Rd.                      (to Ola 7/23/1969)
    Birmingham, Ala.  35222

    The following info. sent by Mrs. George Wilson Smith
    [Jean Waldrop]
    1002 East Forest  St.
    Athens, Ala.

    "The info was obtained from Floy Wray Vaughan, who married
     Mr. Gilbert R. Smith, they were the parents of the writers
     husband."

     The children listed are:
     Sallie Vaughan who married Hatchett Tipton;
     Hiram Jackson Vaughan who married Maria Henry;
     Isham Vaughan who married Sara Elizabeth Barclift;
     Elizabeth P. Vaughan who married Ake Henry;
     Aphrey Vaughan who married Joseph Barclift;
     Ann Vaughan who married
        (1) Gilbreath
        (2) Hamilton;
     Susan N. Vaughan who married Henry Barclift;
     Hunley Vaughan who married Elizabeth Wray.

    In listing Manoah Vaughan's children, all of whom were by his
first wife, Betsey Vaughan, I will name all those mentioned in his
will and all those mentioned by Mrs. Smith, even though we can
be 100% sure of only those named in the will.

X     2.  Hundley Stewart Vaughan
       3.  Benjamin Vaughan, who was living in California
           in 1870 and of whom I have no further information.
       4. Wilmouth Olivia Vaughan (born ca 1830; died in
           Lawrence County,Alabama, before July 1870)
           married, in Blount County, Alabama, January 19,
           1860, William L. Lewis.
X   5. Sarah (Sallie) Vaughan
X   6. Hiram Jackson Vaughan
X   7. Isham Vaughan
X   8. Elizabeth P. Vaughan
X   9. Aphrey Vaughan
   10. Susan Vaughan (born February 28, 1833; died August 1870)
         married Henry Barclift, who married as his second wife, in
         1870, Clara Gillespy.  Henry Barclift was the brother of Joseph
         Commander Barclift who married Aphrey Vaughan [#9] and
         of Sarah Elizabeth Barclift who married Isham Vaughan [#7].
   11. Ann Eliza Vaughan (born ca 1835; living in 1870)
         married (1) in Blount County, Alabama, November 1, 1860,
         Alexander Gilbreath;
         married (2) James S. Hamilton.

    2. Hundley Stewart Vaughan(probably  born ca 1814; died
        in 1841)
        married in Wilson County, Tennessee, February 17, 1834,
        Elizabeth Wray (born ca 1818; died in Williamson County,
        Tennessee, February 26, 1853) daughter of Willis B. Wray,
        and had children:

    12.  Mary Ann Vaughan (born ca 1835)
X 13.  Isom John Campbell Vaughan (born ca 1837)
   14.  Willis Ray Vaughan (born ca 1839)

     On May 9, 1842, Manoah Vaughan filed a claim with the
Land Office in Huntsville for the above-named three children
to gain title to some land for which their father already had
begun the purchase procedure.

       5. Sarah (Sallie) Vaughan (born ca 1828; living, 1850,in
Blount County, Alabama).  Mrs. Smith's information was that
Sallie married Hatchett (Book) Tipton and had children whose
names Mrs. Smith gave as: Susan H. Green Crawford, Isom
Hatchett, Janie Hatchett, Leve Bridges, Mattie Bridges, and
Afrey Tipton Taylor.  I think that may be mixed up.  I found
the marriage of Sally Vaughan and Caldwell Hatchet in
Marshall County, Alabama, January 5, 1837, and then found
Sarah Hatchet, apparently a widow, on the 1850 census of
Blount County, Alabama, at which time she had the following
children:

      15.  Susan Hatchet (1838)
      16.  Isom Hatchet (1840)
      17.  Jane Hatchet (1842)
      18.  Levi Hatchet (1846)

If Sarah (Vaughan) Hatchet remarried after 1850, she might
then have had the children Mrs. Smith called Mattie Bridges
and Afrey Tipton Taylor.

       6. Hiram Jackson Vaughan (born October 24, 1822; died
           March 4, 1891 and buried in Ebel Cemetery near
           Guntersville, Alabama)
           married Sarah Mariah Henry (born August 12, 1833
           in Tennessee; died November 11, 1889 and buried
           beside her husband) daughter of Aikman (Ake) Henry
           and his wife Martha Wilson of McMinn County,
           Tennessee, and had known children:

X   19.  Annie Elizabeth Vaughan
     20.  Sallie Vaughan who perhaps
            married a Mr. Gilbreath
X  21.  James Murphy Vaughan
    22.  Mattie J. Vaughan (born December 31, 1851; died
           February 19, 1880 and buried beside her  parents.)
X 23.  Ake H. Vaughan

     7. Isham (Isom) C. Vaughan (died 1848)
         married, in Davidson County, Tennessee, May 24, 1845,
        Sarah Ann Barclift (Sarah Elizabeth? Mrs. Smith gave
        her name as Sarah Elizabeth, but official records
        concerning her separation from her first husband call
        her Sarah Ann.] (probably died before 1850) daughter of
       Samuel Barclift and his wife Millicent Commander.  Sarah
       Ann had married when she was 16 or 17, Jesse Shelton,
       who was "old enough to be her father".  They had several
       children, but he was abusive and eventually, her brother,
       John H. Barclift, "took her home".  She apparently resumed
       her maiden name for when she married Isham C. Vaughan,
       her name was given as Barclift.  They had one child:

  24.  Benjamin F. Vaughan (born ca 1847) who
         married, in Morgan County,  Alabama, November 14, 1871,
         Mary Henrietta Baker of Danville, Alabama.  After the death
         of Benjamin F. Vaughan, Mary Henrietta  (Baker) Vaughan
         married , in Blount or Morgan* County, Alabama, on August
         16, 1876, Professor Manoah V. Henry (born 1847), son of
         Elizabeth P. Vaughan and Ake Henry.  After Helen's death,
         Manoah Henry married Fannie Cochran, by whom he had
         no children. *This marriage apparently registered in both
         counties.

   8.  Elizabeth P. Vaughan (born April 7, 1824; died in 1892 in
        Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama) married, April 21,
        1842, in Blount County, Alabama, Ake Henry, and had known
        children:

  25.  James Henry (1837)
  26.  Martha Henry (1844)
  27.  Isaac Henry (1846)
  28.  Manoah V. Henry (1847)

   9. Aphrey Vaughan (born April 7, 1826; died July  24, 1884)
       married Joseph Commander Barclift (born April 13, 1824;
       died May 27, 1891, in Blountsville, Alabama) son of Samuel
       S. Barclift and Millicent Commander, and had known
       children:

X29.  Mary Olivia Barclift
X30.  Thomas Manoah Vaughan Barclift

  13.  Isham (Isom) John Campbell Vaughan (born ca 837)
         married Mary Ann Aiken of Aiken, South Carolina, and
         had children:

X31.  Willie Dean Vaughan

  19.  Annie Elizabeth Vaughan
         married, in Blount County, Alabama, July 25, 1867,  the
         Rev. William C. McCoy and  had a son:

X32.  James McCoy

  21.  James Murphy Vaughan
         married, in Blount County, Alabama, August 17,  1879,
         Catherine ("Cassie") Ledbetter, who married as her
         second husband, in Blount County, December 9, 1885,
         Thomas Manoah Vaughan Barclift, son of Aphrey
         Vaughan and Joseph Commander Barclift.
         Children of James Murphy Vaughan and Catherine
         Ledbetter were: [This information was  furnished by Wilson
           Vaughan of Panama City Beach, Florida, in March 1987.  mg]

  33.  A. Wilson Vaughan (born 1881; died 1966 and buried
        in Forest Hills Cemetery Birmingham, Alabama)
        married Sallie Brittain.
 34.  J. J. ("Tump") Vaughan who lived on Union Avenue,
       Memphis, Tennessee and worked for  "Memphis Power
       and Light".  He
       married Jenny _______, but had no issue.

  23. Ake H. Vaughan [He probably is the A. H. Vaughan,
        born November 24, 1856; died December 30, 1936 and
        buried in Cox Cemetery, Route 1, Guntersville, Alabama,
        on Blount-Marshall County Line]Ake H. Vaughan
        married Alice Berry and had children:

  35.  Foyle Vaughan
  36.  Al Henry Vaughan
  37.  Bessie Vaughan who
         married _______ Bodine
  38.  Gussie Vaughan who
         married _______ Nesmith
         They may also have been the parents of:
         Erastus Vaughan (February 2, 1892 - April 26, 1893)
         Mattie Vaughan (December 17, 1900 - July 29, 1901)
         Milton Vaughan (July 11, 1902 - August 8, 1909)
         May Vaughan (June 9, 1909 - April 22, 1911)

  28.  (Professor) Manoah V. Henry (born ca 1847)
         married (1) in Blount County, Alabama, on August 16,
         1876,  as her second husband, Mary Henrietta (Baker)
         Vaughan, widow of Benjamin F. Vaughan;
         married (2) Fannie Cochran, by whom he had no children.
         Children of Manoah V. Henry and Henrietta (Baker)
         (Vaughan) were:
  39.  Ina Henry
  40.  Mary Fannie Henry
  41.  Eugene Henry
  42.  Virginia Henry
  43.  Julia Henry

  29.  Mary Olivia Barclift
         married Milton H. Collins and had a daughter:

X44. Dora Alice Collins
         married Albert Finch and had a son:

  51.  Albert Finch, Jr., who
         married Beverly Bradley

  30. Thomas Manoah Vaughan Barclift
        married as her second husband, Catherine (Ledbetter)
        Vaughan, widow of James Murphy Vaughan, and had
        two known children:

  45. Isola Barclift who
        married J. T. (Ted) Whitaker
X46. Ila Barclift

  31.  Willie Dean Vaughan
         married Joel Woolsy Legg and had three children:

  47.  Viva Legg who
         married (1) _______ Wilson; and
         marrie (2) Tom Spears
X48.  Isham Vaughan Legg
  49.  Mamie Legg who
         married (1) _______ Williams;
         married (2) _______ Todd

  32. (Bishop) James McCoy (born August 6, 1868)
        married (1) Annie Bradley;
        married(2) Mary Moore.
       Son of Bishop James McCoy and Mary Moore was:

X50.  James McCoy

  46.  Ila Barclift married _______ Barclift
         and had children:

  52.  Catherine Barclift
  53.  Jean Barclift
  54.  Marjorie Barclift

  48.  Isham Vaughan Legg
         married Marie Elizabeth Winston of Memphis, Shelby
        County, Tennessee, and had a son:

X55.  Winston Vaughan Legge

   50.  James McCoy
          married Frances _______ and had a daughter:

  56.  Jean McCoy who
          married _______ Estes and lived in Athens, Alabama

  55.  Winston Vaughan Legge (born September 15, 1913)
         married, in 1936, Sarah M. Riddle (died 1983) of Talladega,
         Alabama, and had two children: [Information from Elizabeth
         (Legge) Dunn.]

  57.  Winston Vaughan Legge, Jr. (born 1939)

  58.  Elizabeth Legge (born November 19, 1942)
         married Duncan Forrester Dunn.

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