LAURENS COUNTY, GA - BIOS   Hilbun, Vaughn

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VAUGHN HILBUN

Vaughn Hilbun is the name of the first known Hilbun settler
in Laurens County, Georgia. According to an interview of
Madge Hilburn Methvin, the Hilbuns came into Georgia when
Vaughn was a young man. At some point, he began to work on a
stagecoach line out of Milledgeville in Baldwin County,
which was then the state capital of Georgia. The stage
apparently took him through Emanuel County where he
eventually met the one he married, Eliza Ann McLemore. It is
said the McLemores lived in the Swainsboro area. Vaughn and
Eliza's marriage record says they were married in Emanuel
County while the license was recorded in Montgomery County
the next day.

While Vaughn Hilbun stayed in Georgia, many of the family
moved on to Alabama & Mississippi (see the following site:
http://www.geocities.com/ghilburn888/MissLandRec.html)

This is evidenced by all the people in the 1850 U.S. Census
who were in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida with the last
name of Hilburn who said they were from North Carolina,
including Vaughn Hilbun of Laurens County. The best piece of
evidence found, though, of Vaughn in Baldwin County is in an
old newspaper notice of the "Georgia Journal," dated 13 Feb
1827. In that notice a Vaughn Hilburn was letting the reader
know he had found a saddle, and the owner could get it back
by paying for the notice. The notice went out in the
Milledgeville, Baldwin County area. At the time, Vaughn
would have been almost twenty-one years old. Sometime after
Vaughn Hilbun and Eliza Ann McLemore married, they moved to
Laurens County. It is said their first child, Andrew Jackson
Hilbun, was born in Laurens County. They were married in
April of 1832, and Andrew was born in April of 1833 (Andrew
Jackson was in his second term of the Presidency of the U.S,
and many named their children after him. He was a national
war hero). Vaughn & Eliza spent the rest of their lives in
Laurens County with Vaughn dying in 1891, and Eliza in 1893.
They had five more children, they being Sarah Ann, born
1835, Mary E, born 1839, Ira H, born 1843, and apparent
twins, Matison V & Eiza A, both born 1843.

The three male children all served in the Confederate Army
with all returning home afterward. Andrew served as Tax
Receiver, at least, four years; and all the males served at
terms of jury duty at one time or another. Other Hilbun
descendants have had their accomplishments, and Laurens
County is the better for it. Hilbuns are still there to this
day.