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Ancestors

Peter Vaughan

1807-1885 · Virginia
Born 1807, Culpeper County, Virginia
Died 1885
Children include Clementine

Peter Vaughan was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, on 11 November 1807. His name is spelled Vaughan and Vaughn in the records of his family.

He married Penelope, who was born about 1806. Their first children were born in Tennessee: Sarah about 1833, Catherine about 1834, Jane about 1835 and Thomas J. about 1835. By about 1839 the family had moved on to Missouri, where Nancy was born. William followed about 1842, Clementine on 19 February 1843, and Peter about 1849.

In 1850 the family was living in Linn Township, Osage County, in central Missouri, south of the Missouri River. Peter was forty four and born in Virginia, and Penelope was forty four. All nine children were at home, from Sarah at seventeen down to the baby Peter. Clementine was still in Linn Township in 1860.

In November 1867 Clementine married Victor Melin, a farmer born in France whose widowed mother lived nearby in Linn. Their son Thomas J. Vaughan was still farming in Osage County when he died there in 1922, aged eighty six.

Peter Vaughan died in Osage County on 28 February 1885, aged seventy seven. He was buried in the Linn Public Cemetery.

Sources

Missouri State Board of Health, certificate of death, Osage County, 1922, file no. 1965; Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1975.
United States census, 1850, Linn, Osage County, Missouri, household 720; NARA M432; FamilySearch 1:1:MDZF-YJ9.
1850 United States census, Linn, Osage County, Missouri, household 720, NARA M432, FamilySearch 1:1:MDZF-YJ9; Missouri death certificate of Thomas J. Vaughan, 1922, Osage County, file 1965; Find a Grave memorial 13872739

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