Ancestors

Clementine Melin

Clementine Vaughan was born in Osage County, Missouri, on 19 February 1843. Her father, Peter Vaughan, was a farmer from Culpeper County, Virginia, and her mother was Penelope. Her older brothers and sisters were born in Tennessee, and the family had come to Missouri by about 1839.

In 1850 she was seven and living in Linn Township, Osage County, with her parents and eight brothers and sisters: Sarah, Catherine, Jane, Thomas, Nancy, William and the baby, Peter. She was still in Linn Township in 1860.

On 14 November 1867, in Osage County, she married Victor Melin, a farmer born at Levier in eastern France who had come to Missouri with his family as a young man. The clerk wrote his name as Victor Melton. In 1870 they were living in Linn with their first son, Peter, Victor's widowed mother Cesarine and his brother Felix.

Six children are recorded: Peter Melin (1868), Cora Melin Henry (1872), Casimir Melin (1874), Francis Emmett Melin (1878), and Laura Melin Hightower and Charles S. Melin, both born in 1881.

The family later lived in Jasper County, Missouri. Clementine died there on 4 April 1902, aged fifty nine. She is buried in Williams Cemetery at Avilla, Jasper County. Her husband was buried there in 1916.

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Cite: Heirology, "Clementine Melin (1843-1902)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/clementine-melin-1843-1902-c46d07.