Obituary
J.M. Vaughan
Missouri
Submitted by Leona Dennis
 
West Plaines Daily Quill
West Plains, Howell County, Missouri
Tuesday Evening, February 16, 1954
Former Judge Came Here in Covered Wagon
J. M. Vaughan, 93 of Free Union Dies;
Has 103 Descendants

J.M. (Uncle Clell) Vaughan, 93 year old resident of the Free Union
Community and former judge of the Howell County Court, died
Sunday afternoon, Feb. 14, at 3:30 at his home. Before his death there
were five generations of his family living and he leaves 103 immediate descendants.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at the Free Union
Church at 2 o'clock with Albert Thompson of Searcy, Ark., officiating.
Burial at Free Union will be in charge of the Carter Funeral Home of
Salem, Ark.

He was born Jan. 2, 1861 in Maries County, Missouri, and came to
Howell County in 1866, remaining here the rest of his life. He married
Mandy Middleton in 1881. There were nine children born to this
marriage. She died in August, 1934. In 1935, he married Rebecca
Andrews, who died in February 1944.  He had been a member of the
Church of Christ for 70 years.

He is survived by six children, Leona Ritchey, Oliver Vaughan, Martha
Henson, all of Leota; John Vaughan of South Fork, Jim Vaughan of
Jasper, Ark., Iva Nicks of Oildale, Calif.; by 39 grandchildren, 54 great
grand children and by four great great grandchildren making a total of
103 descendants. Three children, Antney, Elsie and Leonard, have
preceded him in death.

Mr. Vaughan came to this vicinity with his parents from Maries County,
Mo., travelling in a covered wagon drawn by an ox team.

Mr. Vaughan will be remembered by many residents here as a former
judge of the Howell County Court from the southern district in the early
1900's.