Notes for Abraham Vaughn: Buried in the Vaughn Cemetery, off Houston Road, Florence, Ky. - Inscription: Abraham / D. Sept 25 1851 / aged 79 years
NOTES PER PAUL TANNER'S RESEARCH: Abraham Vaughn
My grandmother Tanner was a Vaughn. The earliest Vaughn I have traced is Vincent. He is listed in the 1810 census as living in Culpepper County VA. In that year, he and a female are both listed as being 45 or older. He may have died before 1820. His son, Abraham, probably born in 1772, was one of the early settlers in Boone County, coming here from Virginia in the decade before 1810. The 1810 Boone County KY census records him and his wife as being between 26 and 45 years of age, with his household containing one male and one female between 10 and 16 and two males and one female under 10. He listed no slaves. He is also listed in the 1820 Boone County KY census. June 19, 1830, Abraham Vaughn bought 85 acres from Robert Johnson heirs on the Florence-Burlington Pike not far from Hopeful Church. He was a neighbor of Frederick Tanner. They are on adjoining lines in the 1830 census and the description of his acreage states that it joins Frederick Tanner. In 1836, he purchased four adjoining acres from one of Frederick's heirs. I believe Abraham had ten children which included William Vaughn and Larkin Vaughn. The 1850 census lists Abraham 76, Mary 74, Larkin (bachelor son) 31, and John 16. John was a grandson, child of the deceased William. Abraham and Mary were listed as being unable to read or write. His lands were valued at $4800. On the 1850 tax roll, his 90 acres were assessed at $1800 and four slaves at $1200. In late 1850 or early 1851, he moved to Highland County, OH to live with or be near one of his sons. He died August 25, 1851. He and his wife, who died in 1856, were buried on what later became part of the Marquis farm-just west of Frederick. There were three gravestones in 1950's-Abraham, his wife, and Larkin. His inventory filed October 13, 1851, showed the following: 3 slaves-Elvira, Mary Ellen & Gordon $1000 Corn, wheat and oats $ 170 70 head of hogs $ 130 23 head of sheep $ 35 3 head of cattle $ 36 4 horses $ 100 2 saddles and bridles $ 5 Wagon and farm apparatus $ 60 Kitchen furniture $ 25 Other personal property $ 124 Total $1685 Abraham's will was dated July 4, 1851 and recorded in Boone County in October. Principal provisions were: His wife Mary Vaughn shall hold and enjoy all his property after debts paid, during her natural life or "so long as she remains my widow; but in case she should marry again, I will that she take only her dower right." After that to be equally divided among children. "It is further my express wish that after the division of my negroes, the full amount of said negroes shall be made up to the rest of my children in money as I wish my land to be sold to the highest bidder altogether. I will that said negroes be valued by disinterested persons, who being first sworn, and for them to be divided and not sold, by choosing their own masters among my children; and it is my will that my boy Frank and his mother be allowed to go together to one master in the division of said negroes. I case my wife Mary Vaughn should become encumbered by the maintenance of said negroes, she may let such go as aforesaid among my children at their valuation and no other way." Son Larkin Vaughn and James Riley to be appointed executors. The heirs of William Vaughn, deceased, to receive the legal right of their father. Mary Vaughn died in 1856. March 29, 1859, Larkin Vaughn, as executor of Abraham Vaughn's will, sold 87-3/4 acres on the North side of the Florence-Burlington Pike to Gustavous Weaver for $4826.25.
More About Abraham Vaughn: Date born 2: 1772, VA, USA.259 Burial: 25 Sep 1851, Vaughn Cemetery, Florence, Ky.. Died 2: 25 Sep 1851, Boone, KY, USA.259
More About Abraham Vaughn and Mary Polly Weaver: Marriage: 06 Mar 1797, Culpeper (now Madison County) VA.
Children of Abraham Vaughn and Mary Polly Weaver are:
Abraham Vaughn (b. 1772, d. 25 Sep 1851)
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