Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Vaughan, Lemuel W., 1945 

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LEMUEL WHITFIELD VAUGHAN

L.W. VAUGHAN DIES IN RICHMOND AT 87*

   Lemuel Whitfield Vaughan, age 87 years, probably the oldest citizen of the 
Franklin community, died last Thursday at the Richmond Nursing Home after an 
illness of two years.

   Mr. Vaughan was well known as a prosperous farmer of this community for 
many years.  He was a member of the Union Christian Church near Franklin.  He 
was a son of the late Lawson and Sarah Vaughan and husband of the late Mary 
Ricks Vaughan.

   Surviving his are five daughters: Miss Mary Vaughan of Portsmouth, Mrs. 
James E. Moore and Mrs. Stewart Trippe of Norfolk, Mrs. Lafayette Cox of 
Arlington and Mrs. Richard Jeffries of Norlina, N.C.; five sons, L.W. Vaughan, 
Jr. of Norfolk, C. Ricks Vaughan of Lynchburg, Vance, Carroll and Robert A. 
Vaughan of Franklin; 12 grandchildren, two sisters, Misses Emma and Quintilla 
Vaughan of Franklin, and one brother, P.C. Vaughan, of Jacksonville, Fla.

   The body was brought to the Holland Funeral Home where funeral services 
were held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock, by Dr. W.T. Scott, assisted at 2 
o’clock by Dr. W.T. Scott, assisted by Dr. H.S. Hardcastle, burial following 
in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  The active pallbearers were: Tyler Edwards, Asa 
Joyner, J.F. Matthews, George H. Parker, Burton McLemore, R.G. Edwards, Walter 
M. Beale and Harry Steinhardt.


Lemuel Whitfield VAUGHAN (Sr.), Franklin-area farmer,  
b. 9 Mar 1859, d. 27 Dec 1945, Richmond, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 108*), Franklin, 
   29 Dec 1945, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 4, 1946, p. 1 

*Died age 86. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

The cemetery list gives b. Isle of Wight Co., but his marriage record 
   (MB6:205) gives b. Southampton.  It is appended to his wife's obit 
   ("Tidewater News," Feb. 25, 1938, p. 1) is posted at:  
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/v250m4ob.txt 


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