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TEACH THEM THY SONS, AND THY SON'S SON, LEST THEY DEPART FROM THY HEART VAUGHT COMPILATION VAUGHT LINEAGE RESEARCH GROUP VOLUME THREE JOHN PAUL VAUGHT LINE DESCENDANTS OF GEORGE VAUGHT Fourth Edition ~ September 1997 Compiled by Bill Everett Callahan 653 Matsonia Drive Foster City, California 94404 Resource Consultants — Mickey Martin and the late Helen Spurlin of Diamond Springs, CA Aneta Vaught Thomas of Murfreesboro, Tennessee THE VAUGHT FAMILY OF AMERICA The Household of Johan Paul Vogt "I am afraid you may not consider (the household) an altogether substantial concern. It has to be seen in a certain way, under certain conditions. Some people never see it at all. You must understand, this is no dead pile of stones and unmeaning timber. It is a living thing ... When you enter it you hear a sound-a sound as of some mighty poem chanted. Listen long enough, and you will learn that it is made up of the beating of human hearts, of the nameless music of men's souls-that is, if you have ears. If you have eyes, you will presently see the (household) itself-a looming mystery of many shapes and shadows, leaping sheer from floor to dome. The work of no ordinary builders!-The pillars of it go up like the brawny trunks of heroes; the sweet human flesh of men and women is molded about its bulwarks, strong, impregnable; the faces of little children laugh out from every corner-stone: the terrible spans and arches of it are the joined hands of comrades; and up in the heights and spaces there are inscribed the numberless musings of all the dreamers of the world. It is yet abuilding-building and built upon. Sometimes the work goes forward in deep darkness: sometimes in blinding light; now beneath the burden of unutterable anguish: now to the tune of a great laughter and heroic shouting like the cry of thunder. Sometimes, in the silence of the night-time, one may hear the tiny hammerings of the comrades at work up in the dome-the comrades that have climbed ahead." By Charles Rann Kennedy (The above is taken from the play "The Servant in the House") DEDICATION HELEN ALICE WOODROW SPURLIN 1923-1996 As I spent so many hours, yes, years preparing this text, I have asked; "What is the passion behind this book?" I found my answer in Helen Spurlin. In 1995, Helen came to the Vaught reunion in the advanced stages of cancer. With her was Mickey Woodrow Martin, sister and professional geographer, responsible for bringing her disciple to Vaught research and with Helen was one of the committed and dedicated forces in the Vaught Association, Aneta Vaught Gentry Thomas. At the reunion, Helen was taken to the hospital. Helen said, "I don't want to die away from my home." Thank you Aneta for taking your passion and combining it with Helen's. Helen was loved, cared for and returned home. Helen died in California. Committed to family and history was Helen, willing to spend hundreds and hundreds of hours of time, her phone bill, her savings, her professional computer skills, her commitment to indepth and thorough research, professional accuracy over relationships, the wear and tear on her car, the discomfort of many hotel beds, and finally her health. The compiled information contained in this and Helen's volumes only skims the veneer of the price of our forefathers' lives, more importantly, this volume skims the vision, the work, the research and dedication of linking "the hearts of fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers" which these volumes and the Association represent. Realize the effort of this work. It is my hope as the compiler of this volume that in the future the Association will build higher quality in our histories and reach outward to every descendant of Johan Paulus Vogt with the vision of generational family. Too much has been lost without vision. Dear Helen, I love your soul. Thank you for your love, for your wisdom and patience. Because of you, this volume is. Thank you. 11 In Honor of Mance Hyrum Vaught (1898-1990) Mance was born November 20, 1898, in MacKay, Idaho. The fifth son of Madison Scott Vaught, son of Andrew Vaught and Fannie Yates; Andrew was the son of John Vaught and Elizabeth Slemp; John was the son of George Vaught and Christiana Phillippi. Mance's mother was Matilda Rose Gill. From his own life story we learn that as a youth he learned the value of hard work and applications of thrift and frugality. At fourteen his mother died adding responsibility to the children. One month before his eighteenth birthday, Mance volunteered for military service, "he was off to win the war, to end all wars". He did his army tour of duty in Bordeaux, France where he spent eighteen months as a sergeant in a supply training camp. After the armistice and before he left for home he took the opportunity (actually he and some of the guys were AWOL for five days) to tour Paris. He said he saw and experienced everything worthwhile and even some that were not. The fall of 1919 found him enrolled in high school so he could graduate while working on his father's cattle ranch as a cowboy. He met Lela Barbara Nichols. She was beautiful, strong willed and an independent young lady. Lela described Mance as fiercely handsome, with wavy dark auburn hair and long lashes that waved like a fan. Theirs was a spirited courtship. They were married in April of 1920. Together they ran his dad's lower ranch. Next they operated a restaurant working 18 hours a day seven days a week. When they saved enough for a downpayment on a Chevrolet Touring car, they sold the restaurant to Mance's brother and traveled to Hangtown, California where they established their home near a friend, investing in a newspaper, the Daily Republican. For many years Mance was the advertising manager for the Mountain Democrat. He later became an insurance broker for 20 years and founding partner of Vaught Wright & Bond. For many years Mance was an active leader of the Boy Scouts of America and the Sons of the Utah Pioneers. Mance helped mark the route of the Mormon Battalion's trek back to Salt Lake City. He was a member of the Placerville Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and one of its first branch presidents. He was the first Mormon in the area to serve a fulltime mission for the Church. He also served a second mission for the Church with his wife after his retirement as an insurance company executive. As an active Latter-day Saint Mance began contributing to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City as early as the 1940's. His work is available for research. Mance died May 26, 1990 in Placerville, California leaving his wife Lela, a son Arthur Thomas of Reno, Nevada, and a daughter Linda Williams, of Montgomery Creek. He also has seven grandchildren. Ill TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION i TABLE OF CONTENTS iii ABBREVIATIONS v PREFACE vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii GEORGE VAUGHT FAMILY PEDIGREE CHART viii VOGT ORIGINS ix CHAPTER ONE FIRST GENERATION INTO AMERICA 1 MAPS 9 CHAPTER TWO THE SECOND GENERATION 15 FRAKTUR 20 CHAPTER THREE THE FAMILY OF GEORGE VAUGHT (1742) and CHRISTIANA PHILLIPPI 21 CHAPTER FOUR THE FAMILY OF JOHN VAUGHT (1781) and ELIZABETH SLEMP 27 CHAPTER FIVE THE FAMILY OF DAVID VAUGHT (1783-????) AND MARIA KETTERING 103 CHAPTER SIX THE FAMILY OF PETER VAUGHT (1785-1863) AND MAGDALENA WAMPLER 105 IV TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER SEVEN THE FAMILY OF ANDREW VAUGHT (1787 - 1879) AND ROSANNA KEESLING 135 CHAPTER EIGHT THE FAMILY OF MARY VAUGHT (1793-1893) WESLEY CARSON 169 CHAPTER NINE THE FAMILY OF CHARLES VAUGHT (1797-????) AND NANCY PIERCE 205 CHAPTER TEN THE FAMILY OF JOSEPH VAUGHT (1798 -) AND BARBARA WISELEY 209 CHAPTER ELEVEN THE FAMILY OF ABRAHAM VAUGHT (1801-1864) AND MARY SWAKER 212 CHAPTER TWELVE THE FAMILY OF THOMAS JEFFERSON VAUGHT (1806-1892) AND BARBARA PHILLIPPI 223 CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE FAMILY OF ELIZABETH VAUGHT (1808-1855) AND ALLEN NELSON 234 CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE FAMILY OF CHRISTIANA VAUGHT (1812-1881) AND JOHN HORN 262 ALPHABETICAL NAME LISTING 272 LIST OF SOURCES 315 CONTRIBUTORS 317 WATER FROM ANOTHER TIME 320 BUILDING YOUR OWN PEDIGREE 322 ABBREVIATIONS b born bur buried C christened ca circa cem cemetery ch/o child of Co. County d died d/o daughter of div divorced doc document d.y. death year e (orE) east Kimb "Kimberling Church, Wythe County, Virginia: Annotated Baptismal and Cemetery Records" by Hoch, Kegley, and Smith. m married mo. month Mt. mountain n (or N) north P page PP pages R. river rec records s (orS) south s/o son of vit stats vital statistics Vol volume w (or W) west yr. year Zion Zion Lutheran Church baptismal records or cemetery records from Cripple Creek, Wythe County, Virginia. Postal abbreviations for the states are used. Months of the year are appreviated. VI PREFACE In the context of family histories this work can barely be called a compilation of data. The information was gathered by the Vaught Association of Somerset, Pulaski Co., Kentucky over a period of years and then delivered to the compiler. Because of the volume of work no attemp was made to research original sources. Much information is readily available which can update this volume. Also, much information is missing yet to be provided by Association membership. My objective as a compiler was to present the hundreds of pedigrees and family group sheets in a format easily accessible and understandable by the Vaught family.
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