LOCKE-VAUGHAN and ELLIS-BURGESS-HAYDEN

Our LOCKE-VAUGHAN group includes our DAR line going back to General Matthew LOCKE and Col. Francis LOCKE (brothers, Matthew's daughter Margaret married Francis' son, John) in Rowan County, North Carolina.Three great grandsons of Gen. LOCKE and Col. LOCKE, James Francis, William, and Matthew W Locke founded the town of Lockesburg, Arkansas in Sevier County.
Our ELLIS-BURGESS-HAYDEN group goes back to John ALDEN and Priscilla MULLINS who came to this country on the Mayflower.
This line also includes our Sarah BASS and her sister Hannah BASS.They were daughters of Ruth ALDEN and her husband, John BASS.Among Sarah's descendants were Presidents John ADAMS and John Quincy ADAMS.We are so proud to have the rich heritage of founders of our country within the family.James ELLIS, husband of Sarah RIGGS has now been proved as our DAR anscestor, too.
Mayflower Descendants, John ALDEN
DAR,Gen. Matthew LOCKE, Col. Francis LOCKE, James ELLIS
United Daughters of the Confederacy,Taylor VAUGHAN
First Families of Twin Territories,(Indian Territory), Nelle Burgess ELLIS
First Families of Tennessee, James ELLIS and Sarah RIGGS
Presidents and First Ladies, John ADAMS, John Quincy ADAMS

My Family History

• Surname List


• Index of Individuals




• Sources

Family Photos

• COOK (93 KB)
  Harold A. "Hal" Cook.1956
• ELLIS Family (184 KB)
  1918Claude, Nelle, and Betty Ruth Ellis
• VAUGHAN (87 KB)
  Louise Vaughan, birth mother of Harold Cook.1960.
• COOK Family (143 KB)
  Harold Cook, age 8 with cousin Harry Cook, age 5.1925.
• GALLAHER (23 KB)
  Robbie Gallaher, birth father of Harold Cook.About 1945.
• COOK Family (45 KB)
  Judy Cook, age 18 and Barbara Cook, age 16.1956.
• HAYDEN (19 KB)
  Dr. Clement Hayden, Maysville, Arkansas.About 1880.
• BURGESS-HAYDEN (259 KB)
  Mary Angeline Hayden and Joseph Charles Burgess at their 50th wedding anniversary.Pryor, Oklahoma, 1930.
• BURGESS-HAYDEN (42 KB)
  Mary Hayden with daughters Jesse (left) and Irene (right)with Irene's daughter, Margaret.About 1925.
• BURGESS (29 KB)
  Rev. Vardry Burgess, about 1870.
• BURGESS (737 KB)
  Rev. John Burgess, about 1885. He lived to be at least 104.He was an uncle of Rev. Vardry Burgess.
• LOCKE (372 KB)
  Locke Hotel, Lockesburg, Arkansas. (L to R) Callie Nall, Kit Locke, Louise Vaughan, Alma Nall, Nona Vaughan, Aunt Lize.About 1910.