SOURCE:
"Portrait and 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.


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