Coffee County AlArchives Biographies.....Vaughan, Angus 1826 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   ANGUS VAUGHAN, planter of Beat No. 6, Coffee county, Ala., was born in Walton
county, Fla., in 1826. He was a son of James and Nancy (Anderson) Vaughan,
natives of South Carolina, the former being born in 1792. James Vaughan was
reared on a farm with but limited education and was taken by his parents to
Georgia at an early day. Here he married his first wife and removed to Dale
county, Ala., about the time the state was admitted into the Union. Here he
lived but a short time when he removed to Florida, where his wife died, and in
1823, he married again. In about 1830 he again removed to Alabama, settling in
the woods in what is now Geneva county, on Pea river, and there on a good farm
spent the rest of his life. He was a justice of the peace for some years, and in
1837 represented Walton county, Fla., in the legislature. He served in the war
of 1812. Both he and his wife were Presbyterians, were among the first settlers
of southeastern Alabama; and in the early days suffered many hardships incident
to pioneer life. His father, Michael Vaughan, was a Virginian by birth He
probably married in that state and moved thence to South Carolina, thence to
Georgia, and later to Florida, where he lived the rest of his life. Angus
Anderson, grandfather on the mother's side, of Angus Vaughan, was a Scotchman
and came to this country when Mrs. Vaughan was three years old, settling in
North Carolina, whence he removed to Florida, where he lived and died a farmer.
The mother of Angus Vaughan died in 1876, and was the mother of ten children,
viz.: Angus; David, died in 1839; Daniel, of Geneva, served in an Alabama
regiment in the Tennessee army all through the war; James M., of Geneva county,
served in the same command with his brother; Archibald, of Geneva county, was in
the Virginia army for some time, spent eighteen months in the hospital as yard
master part of the time, and afterward on the coast of Florida; John P., of
Walton county, Fla., served with his brothers in the Tennessee army; William P.,
of Florida, served in an Alabama regiment on the Florida coast about eighteen
months during the latter part of the war; Rachel, wife of Marian Gordon, of
Florida; and Catherine, single. Angus Vaughan was reared on a farm with but
little education. He remained at home until he attained his majority, and then,
alternating between a store and the farm for a few years, became a merchant on
his own account at Elba. In 1858 he married Martha O., daughter of Henry A. and
Susan R. Caldwell, natives respectively of South Carolina and Georgia. They were
married in Georgia, and in 1855 moved to Elba, Ala., and Mr. Caldwell died in
Coffee county in 1859. He was a clerk of the county court in Georgia and a man
of excellent character. His widow is still living. Mrs. Vaughan was born, reared
and educated in Georgia. She is the mother of ten children, all of whom are
living, viz.: Mary O., wife of John Bell; James H.; Anna; Angus C.; Helen; John
T., of Florida; Irene; David M.; Daniel R., and Susan. When the war broke out
Mr. Vaughan was in ill health, but at length decided to enlist. He was, however,
persuaded by his family not to do so, but to furnish a substitute, which he did
at a cost of $1,500. During the war he followed farming and then merchandising
for some years, and since 1875 he has lived on his present farm, three miles
northwest of Elba. Here he owns 400 acres of land, about 100 of which are under
cultivation. He was county treasurer for about three years during the war, and
from 1870 to 1880 he was clerk of the circuit court. He has since then devoted
his attention exclusively to farming. He is a member of the Elba lodge, No. 170,
F. & A. M., and was W. M. from 1871 to 1874. Both he and his wife have been
members of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, she from her youth up and he
for a good many years. He has been steward in the church for more than twenty
years, has been a lay delegate to the district conference several times; also a
lay delegate to the annual conference, in 1872, at Troy, Ala.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 682-683

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