VAUGHN, J. C.
J. C. VAUGHN
Source: "Portrait & Biographical Record of Clay, Ray, Carroll, Chariton, and Linn Counties(1893)", p. 385
J. C. VAUGHN. This retired farmer of Richman, Ray County, has won hosts of friends by his many excellent qualities. Modest and unassuming, there is about him a reserve force that makes him equal to any emergency that may arise, and he seeks to conform his life to the highest requirements of the moral and Christian code.
He was born in Lincoln County, Ky., in 1838, being the son of Thompson and Elizabeth (Stone) Vaughn, both natives of Kentucky. Thompson lived with his parents until his majority, being reared upon the farm and receiving his education in the district schools. Wisely he applied himself to a trade in his youth and became a very good brick and stone mason, a vocation he plied in conjunction with farming.
The marriage of the parents of our subject took place when they were twenty and twenty-one years of age, respectively. The mother was a daughter of John and Sallie (Gaines) Stone. The father of our subject bought land, and in 1864 removed to Putnam County, Ind., where he again invested in real estate and remained until his death in the year 1889, at the age of seventy-three years. His wife still survives in the enjoyment of good health for one of her years. Ten children were born to these parents, namely: William G., who died in infancy; Joseph L.; J. C.; S. P.; Sallie, wife of James Knight; Thomas; Nancy, wife of John Boldback; Louis L.; Patty, wife of Thomas Bowen; and Benjamin B.; all of them residents of Indiana, except
Louis, a resident of Illinois and our subject. These parents were members of the Baptist Church, in which the father was a Deacon for many years. Three of their sons were good and brave soldiers in the Union army, our subject and Joseph in Company H, Nineteeth Kentucky Infantry, and S. P. in the One Hundred and Sixteenth Indiana Infantry.
Our subject remained at home until the outbreak of the war, having received a good training in the subscription schools. He entered the army in 1861 in the command of Gen. Bard, and afterward of Gen. George W. Morgan, participating in the battles of Cumberland Gap, Arkansas Post, in the seige of Vicksburg throughout, and in all the engagements around about. He was then transferred to Bank's division in Louisiana and took part in the fight at Bean Cross Roads, where he was wounded by a minie-ball, which yet remains in his body. He lay upon the field of battle all night alone and without attention of any kind. Taken prisoner the following morning, he was borne to the Confederate hospital at Mansfield, where he remained two and one-half months, when he was transferred to the Marine Hospital at New Orleans. He
reached his home in August 1864, and as soon as health would permit worked in a sawmill. He was married in 1868 to Ella, daughter of John and Lydia (Jennings) Rodman, with whom he removed to Ray County, Mo., the following year, arriving there Sept 23.
Upon arrival in the State, Mr. Vaughn settled upon a farm of fifty-five acres, which was later increased to sixty-five acres, where he lived for thirteen years, and then bought a piece of property in Richmond, upon which he built a residence and removed to it. This has been the home of the family ever since. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn are the parents of one son, Charles J., who is a student in the High School of Richmond. They are members in good standing in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which they are highly esteemed for their sincere and upright lives. Mr. Vaughn is a Master Mason, having been one in Indiana, but now holds his membership in Lodge No. 57, at Richmond. His political affiliations are with the Republican party, he
taking great interest in public matters and having strong faith in the party with which he is allied.