Born 18 February 1818, died 14 February 1902. His birth year fits well as the father of B.H. Vaughn, who built the bridge at Smith Ford by hand in 1895 - a 30-year generational gap, right for the era.
Appears in: Union Grove Cemetery. Related: B.H. Vaughn.
Notable descendants:
- James Hart Vaughn (1840-1923), Mary Telitha Vaughn Gilliam (1842-1908), John Frank Vaughn (1843-1862), Nancy Elizabeth “Nannie” Vaughn Wall (1846-1907), Absolem Tillman “Till” Vaughn (1848-1913), Burrell Hartwell Vaughn (1852-1934), Sarah Ann Margrette Vaughn Burns (1856-1905), Rev Richard Wilson Vaughn (1860-1934), Josephene Francis ‘Fannie’ Vaughn Turner (1863-1943) - his documented children, confirmed via Find a Grave.
- Grandchildren: 50 documented across 8 of these lines, the great majority born after 1850 - the generation this project’s pre-1850 cemetery research systematically missed. Selected: Hartwell Wood Vaughn (1874-1937); Martin Vaughn (1880-1931); William Absalom Gilliam (1868-1949); James T Gilliam (1869-1954); Jachin A “J.A.” Gilliam (1876-1946); Mary Jane “Mollie” Wall Watson (1867-1937); William Abner Wall (1869-1925); Martha Lou Wall Calvert (1872-1948); William Ira Vaughn (1868-1944); Rufus M Vaughn (1870-1945); Robert Lee Vaughn (1875-1905). Because the list runs to 50 names, the full grandchild list is recorded in the vault research note rather than here.
- Sarah Ann Margrette Vaughn Burns (1856-1905) married into the Burns line, and a granddaughter, Nancy Ann Rebecca Gilliam Swann (1881-1975), into the Swann line.
His son, identified: B.H. Vaughn - the man who built the bridge at Smith Ford by hand in 1895 and wrote the 1932 Southern Democrat letter that is the primary source for early Hayden - is Burrell Hartwell Vaughn (1852-1934), listed among his children above. Confirmed by his obituary date (7 June 1934) matching Burrell Hartwell’s death (30 May 1934), not by initials alone.
- Where he came from, and who he married. He moved to Cedar Bluff, Alabama from South Carolina in the mid-1830s and on to Blount County during the 1850s. He married Lida Ann Elizabeth Mapp on 13 August 1839, a date recorded in the family Bible, and they had thirteen children - four more than are listed above. Among those not previously named here: Eliza Jane Vaughn (1845-1920), Martha Emily Loueza Vaughn (1850-1878), who married Robert Houston Burns, and Daniel Ira Thomas Vaughn.
- He lived and died at Harkness. His obituary in the Blount County News and Dispatch, 20 February 1902: “In the death of Ab Vaughn, at Harkness a few days ago, Blount county lost an old and highly respected citizen.” A county death record places his burial in “Walkers Beat,” where Union Grove Cemetery sits - and his grave is unmarked.
- His wife’s church, and a son’s ministry. Lida Ann died at Harkness on 28 October 1895, aged 77, after sixty-one years in the C.P. church - now Center Hill Independent Presbyterian Church. Their son Rev. Richard Wilson Vaughn was a minister there for many years.