MARY FRANCIS HENDERSON, VAUGHANS

A page was copied about the settlers of Taney County. One was of Mary Francis Henderson, who married George Washington "Uncle Bud" Vaughan in Barry County, Missouri. She was said to have been born in the town of Roaring River, this no longer exists. Family stories say her mother (name never given) was 1/2 Cherokee and was on the Trail of Tears. As Barry County borders Taney one wonders if her mother might have been one of these Cherokee women. I think Mary's parents were Thomas Henderson and Nancy ____. Nancy would have been the 1/2 Cherokee woman. The 1850 census shows her being born in North Carolina. Thomas was shown as born in Tennessee. They lived in Searcy County, Arkansas in 1850, Tomahawk Township. In 1860 they lived in Stone County, Missouri, but suspecting, between these two censuses they lived in Barry County. (Photo tin-type, of Sarah Harp (Henley)

1850 Searcy County, Arkansas, Tomahawk Township Roll # 334
81/83 Thomas Henderson, age 35, Male, Farmer, born in Tennessee
Nancy age 36, Female, born in North Carolina Can't read or write
Joseph N. age 10, Male, born in Missouri
Mary F. age 7, Female, born in Arkansas
James C. age 1, Male, born in Missouri
In 1860 they were in Stone County, Missouri
1860 Stone County, Missouri, Williams Township, Roll # 606
367/367 Thomas Henderson, age 46, Male, white, farmer, $1000/754, born in Tennessee Can't read
Nancy I. (?) Henderson, age 48, Female, white, born in North Carolina Can't read or write
Joseph N. Henderson, age 21, Male, white, Farm Laborer, born in Missouri
James C. Henderson, age 12, Male, white, born in Arkansas
Eliza Skidmore, age 24 or 27, Female, white, born in Tennessee
William T. Skidmore, age 11, Male, white, born in Arkansas
John B. Skidmore, age 6, Male, white, born in Arkansas
Margaret Price, age, 16, Female, white, born in Arkansas ............................
Another wrote:
*About the book in TURNBOW'S TALES OF THE OARKS BIOGRAPHICAL STORIES STORIES. On page 23 he gives the names of a few of the early day people who lived on Crooked Creek, Marion Co., Ark. Bleuf Milum, Jimmy Magness, Noah ennette, Mose Rowlet, Joel King, Bill Wood, Eli Young, Jake Baughman, Luke Marler, Sam Harp, Nimrod Teaf, John Tabor, Herrod Coker, Demps Coker, Jimmie Shelton, Joel Sharp, and George Wood, Jimmy Mayberry. Mathew Harp is his mother was Judith(Judy) Brown and they are connected to the Blackwell Family of Taney Co.,& Hickory Co., Mo.
Most of the early founders and settlers in Taney Co., were Cherokee woman married to white men and soldiers. They were from McMinn Co., Tenn. and traveled the "Trail of Tears". ---- Original Message -----
Subject: Harp Family
Do you have any approximate dates of birth for Sam & Matt Harp?
Ans: I also have Matt Harp marring Judith Brown, Protem,Taney Co., Mo. no dates.
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Subject: "Within My Ozark Valley"
A Sam Harp , Crooked Creek in Marion Co., Ark. This area is at the Ark. & Mo. border, White River. .................................................

B"Within My Ozark Valley". Has any one seen this bk.? William Vaughan, an adventurer from Wales (descendant of Thomas & Henry Vaughan) became a Indian trader. William Vaughan married a Cherokee maiden by the name of Fair-A- Bee-Lunah in the Cherokee Territory of Tennessee. Willian Vaughan and his son-in-law Philip Harp. They were in Eureka Springs, Ark. The great grandmother was Stone. Granny Molly Vaughan Stone, 1892. It speaks of the Civil War.
The Vaughans & Harps have left a string of such houses to blaze the trail which they open all the way from Tennessee into the Ozarks. The towns spoken of were Cassville,, Mo.. Springfield, Mo. (Dr. Benjamin Franklin Pickley), Ft. Smith (then called Belle Point) Boston Mountains, Eureka Springs, Carrol, Madison and Newton Co., Ark. The more agricultural- minded Vaughans remained in Washington Co., Ark., where Samuel Vaughan, son of William, was one of the three commissioners who chose the site of Fayetteville, Ark. and helped survey it. He named the town for his home town, Fayetteville, Tenn. One can undestand the different spelling of Vaughan or Vaughn. Harps vs Erps, Earps. This book was written by CORA PINKLEY CALL, 1956. Many question some of the correctness of issues in the book. So do check everything out by other sources. .................................
Subject: Samuel and Daniel Vaughan

They lived around the Hawkins and Hancock Counties area -- there wasn't a Hancock County when they left Hawkins sometime after 1812, but just where they lived is still being debated. Most feel it was somewhere else in Tennessee, and very likely it was Warren and White Counties, Tennessee. There are grants in both counties for a Samuel and Daniel Vaughan and some indication that their sister Mary and her husband lived there:

Daniel: In Warren County, Tennessee in 1812, on a tax list, appears the name Daniel Vaughan, along with a David Vaughan. He apparently received land in White County, Tennessee, Grant # 5585 as an assignee of John C. McLemore, 3 acres lying in White County in the third District of Cane Creek of main Caney Fork including the house and improvements formerly occupied by John Medkiff, on May 23, 1814. In Deed Book F., page 73, he sold to John Simmons, both of White County, for $215, the land mentioned in the grant, on September 18, 1815. He appeared on the White County tax lists for 1815 and 1816.

Samuel: In Warren County, Tennessee, Grant # 5670, State of Tennessee to Samuel Vaughn, assignee of Peter Turney, 20 acres lying Warren County in the third District on the waters of Rocky River, June 4, 1814. Is this our Samuel?? Mary: Taken from her NOTES section: RECORDS ON VAUGHAN CONNECTION: On a Evans family reunion a few years back, and someone who attended gave a copy of the records that were circulated that day, and sent it to me, and it shows the following data:

MARY VAUGHAN, daughter of WILLIAM VAUGHAN, born 1779, Virginia. MARY VAUGHAN married JAMES EVANS - September 14, 1802, Hawkins County,Tennessee (Mary stated she was married in the home of her father, WILLIAM VAUGHAN) Their first son, JESSE EVANS, was born in 1803, Hawkins County,Tennessee, and Jesse's fifth child FERIBY EVANS was born in 1840. James Evans was listed near William Vaughan, Sr., John Vaughan, and William Vaughan, Jr. on the 1812 Tax Lists of Hawkins County,Tennessee. All appeared on the list taken by Wm. Nichols.

After his discharge from the War of 1812, James and Mary (Vaughan) Evans moved to White County, Tennessee, with her parents, where in 1816, James Evans witnessed an Indenture for WILLIAM VAUGHAN. James Evans died on 28 July 1820, in Fentress County, Tennessee, and hiswidow MARY EVANS continued on the Census of White and Van Burencounties, Tennessee. The Evans' were back and forth between what are now Van Buren (formerly White) and Fentress counties, TN. Mary died inAugust of 1873, Fentress County, Tennessee.
Grave of Geo W. Vaughan , who was the son of Parker Vaughan
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