This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Vaughn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/77.80.81.320.3.2 Message Board Post: >From "History of Clay and Platte Counties" 1885 JOSIAH J. VAUGHN (DECEASED) (Vicinity of Blue Eagle). I Mr. Vaughn lost his life in the Southern army in 1862. He was an orderly sergeant in Reeves’ regiment, and was severely wounded at the battle of Pea Ridge, and died of his wound at a hospital in Ar­kansas. Mr. Vaughn had been a resident of Clay county for some 10 years prior to the war. He came to this county from Kentucky with his family and engaged in farming. He was a man of marked intelli­gence, good general education, and a thoroughly energetic farmer. He made many friends here, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. Mr. Vaughn was a prominent member of the Masonic Order, and took an active interest in the welfare of the Order. He assisted to organize several lodges in this vicinity of country. His widow is still living, and resides on the homestead with her two unmarried children. She was a Miss Mary T. Stewart, from Ken­tucky. They had five children: Francis J., Peterson S., Nancy E., Justin E. and Mary E. Mr. Vaughn and his wife were both born in Kentucky. Francis J., their eldest son, at whose instance this sketch is inserted, was born in the native county of his parents in Kentucky, and accompanied them to this State, and in 1861 joined the Southern army, but shortly afterward he was taken prisoner and confined at St. Louis for a time. He was then exchanged, and re-entered the Southern service. After the war he returned home and engaged in farming. He has a neat farm of 80 acres, and is comfortably situiated.