Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Vaughan, George W., 1928 

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GEORGE W. VAUGHAN 

G.W. VAUGHAN SHOT BY 7-YEAR OLD SON 

   Geo. W. Vaughan a prominent farmer and citizen of Isle of Wight County 
near Franklin, was seriously wounded this morning at 10 o’clock when his 
seven-year-old son, Ray, accidentally shot him, the bullet piercing the 
abdomen.  The accident, which has distressed the town and community, 
occurred at the Cross-Roads Service Station, the boy finding a pistol in 
a box under the store counter and in some unexplained way discharged it. 
Mr. Vaughan is not expected to recover.

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GEORGE W. VAUGHAN 

GEORGE W. VAUGHAN DIES FROM EFFECTS OF ACCIDENTAL SHOT 

   George W. Vaughan of the Franklin community, who was accidentally shot by 
his six-year-old son, Ray, last Friday morning, died the same afternoon at 
five o’clock in Lakeview Hospital, Suffolk, where he was taken in the hope of 
saving his life.  Nothing has so distresses this community as the tragic death 
of Mr. Vaughan, who was held in high esteem by everyone and was a successful 
farmer, a substantial citizen and one of the outstanding members of Beaver Dam 
Baptist Church where he was a member of the board of deacons and was always 
active and interested in its welfare and progress.

   Mr. Vaughan and his little son, who was his constant companion, had been to 
Franklin last Friday morning and had stopped at the Crossroads Service Station 
about two miles from here on their way home.  While Mr. Vaughan was talking 
with friends, the little boy found a pistol in a box behind the counter in the 
station and playfully pointing it at his father, the weapon went off piercing 
Mr. Vaughan in the abdomen and puncturing an artery.  He was immediately taken 
to his home on the Franklin-Windsor road near Walters, where it is said he 
told his wife, "Ray did it, but he didn’t mean to and did not know any 
better."  He was attended by Dr. R.H. Cobb and Dr. C.J. Bradshaw of 
Carrsville, and was later taken to the hospital.

   The body was brought from Lakeview and prepared for burial by W.J.M. 
Holland and Sons of this town.

   Funeral services were held from Beaver Dam Church Sunday afternoon in the 
presence of one of the largest crowds ever seen at that church.  The Pastor, 
Rev. W.B. Denson, was assisted in the funeral rites by Rev. G.R. Pankey, a 
former pastor at Beaver Dam.  Special musical numbers, favorite hymns of Mr. 
Vaughan’s were given by the choir and there was a profusion of beautiful 
floral offerings.  Interment was made in the churchyard cemetery and the body 
bearers were: J. Lam Harcum, Lafayette Rawls, Walter L. Bryant, A.R. Butler, 
R.D. Brett, C.H. Hayes, W.M. Bradshaw and Clinton Bradshaw.  The honorary 
pallbearers were selected from a large number of friends of the family.

   Mr. Vaughan is survived by his widow, who is a daughter of the late John R. 
Rose of Isle of Wight County, and by nine sons, R.B. Vaughan and J.V. Vaughan 
of Newport News, William W. Clyde, Reggie, Geo. W. Jr., Garland, Robert and 
Ray Vaughan of Isle of Wight; three sisters, Mrs. J.R. Lankford of Franklin, 
Mrs. Jack Saunders of Zuni and Mrs. Lee Fowler of Walters, besides many other 
relatives and a wide circle of sorrowing friends.


George Washington VAUGHAN, farmer, 
Isle of Wight Co. native, 
accidentally shot by son, d. 15 Oct 1928, Suffolk, age 53, 
interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery*, near Franklin, 17 Oct 1928, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 15, 1928; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 22, 1928, p. 1 

*Beaver Dam list (BD-75), an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 19, 1942, p. 4) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/v250b1ob.txt 


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