Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Vaughan, Ida M. Rawls, 1928 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ IDA MATILDA RAWLS VAUGHAN Mrs. J.B. Vaughan of this town died suddenly Wednesday morning at her home in Clay Street, being ill only a few minutes. For some time she had suffered with high blood pressure and her death was due to heart failure. Mrs. Vaughan was born April 14, 1855, and was in her 74th year. She was, before her marriage, Miss Ida Matilda Rawls, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Rawls of the Boxelder community in Nansemond County. She and Mr. Vaughan were married on January 3, 1883, and had lived happily together for more than 45 years. For the first four years of their married life they made their home in the Franklin community at the old Vaughan homestead, and in 1887 moved to Como, N.C., where they were well-known and highly esteemed citizens of that community, living in what is now the Tom Taylor residence on the farm adjoining Buckhorn Baptist Church. In January, 1901 they returned to Virginia and lived at Mr. Vaughan’s farm, "Cedar Lawn" near town until about eight years ago when they came to Franklin and built an attractive residence in Clay Street. From her early childhood Mrs. Vaughan had been a loyal and consistent member of the Christian Church, joining Holy Neck Church as a girl and in her later years being a member of the Franklin Christian Church here. She was an ideal homemaker and the hospitality of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenny Vaughan, as they were familiarly known, was proverbial both here and during their 14-year residence in Como. She was a generous neighbor, a faithful wife and a devoted mother, and in her were happily combined those fine traits and essential elements only to be found in those homes where the first thought of wife and mother is the welfare and comfort of those about her and in an untiring expression of unselfish service to her loved ones. Mrs. Vaughan is survived by her husband and two sons, Prof. L.L. Vaughan of the faculty of the North Carolina State College, Raleigh, and James Andrew Vaughan, a successful attorney of New York City. She also leaves four half- sisters, Miss Pocahontas Rawls of this town, Mrs. J.W. Folk of Suffolk, Mrs. C.E. Byrd of Nansemond County and Mrs. Leslie Everett of Holland of this town, besides other relatives and many friends. Funeral services were conducted from the home yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock home yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock by her Pastor, Rev. Joseph W. Fix, of the Christian Church, assisted by two former pastors, Dr. C.H. Rowland of Greensboro, and Rev. F.C. Lesser of Waverly, and by Rev. R.D. Stephenson of the Baptist Church. The service consisted of favored scripture passages read by Mr. Fix and Mr. Stephenson and a prayer by Dr. Rowland. Hymns that Mrs. Vaughan had always liked were sung by the choir of the Christian Church, "How Firm a Foundation," "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," and "Near My God to Thee." Interment followed in Poplar Spring Cemetery here, the body bearers being: J.A. Johnson, W.H. Norfleet, Dr. Burton J. Ray, B.L. Holt, Tup Jones, J.A. Williams, L.B. Norfleet and Harry Steinhardt. The honorary pallbearers were: A.L. Gardner, R.H. Harrell, Joe Bynum Gay, R.H. Minton, J.O. Haslett, J.E. Lawrence, W.O. Bristow, L.R. Jones, M.H. Moore, Claude J. Edwards, W.A. Jones, Jas. L. Camp, Jr., Dr. W.H. Arthur, and G.C. Picot, H. McDonald Spiers and W.T. Taylor of Como. Ida Matilda (RAWLS; Mrs. James B.) VAUGHAN, formerly of Como, NC, b. 14 Apr 1855, d. 27 Jun 1928, at home, near Franklin, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 63B*), Franklin, 28 Jun 1928, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 29, 1928 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 22, 1929, p. 1) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/v250j8ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/v250i1ob.txt